“Tiffany Rea-Fisher is audacious, serving, integrity.”
TIFFANY REA-FISHER is the Artistic Director of EMERGE125, a Mellon-grant funded performance company headquartered in Harlem. A graduate of SUNY Purchase and a disciple of Kevin Wynn (Complex Movement) and Virginia Johnson (Dance Theatre of Harlem), Rea-Fisher approaches the dance studio with over 25 years of pedagogy in her field. She describes her specialty style as "contemporary modern with an emphasis on high-level physical technical ability." Works performed at Joyce, Apollo, New York City Center, Joe's Pub, Guggenheim and New York Live Arts. Recent accomplishments include a 2022 Dance Theatre of Harlem commission and The Public Theater’s 2023 The Tempest. Rea-Fisher is a COHI member of IABD, Advisory Board Dance/NYC. 7-time AUDELCO award nominee, 2022 Toulmin Fellow, National Dance Project Award winner, Creatives Rebuild New York Awardee, John Brown Spirit Award recipient, Bessies Award Selection Committee member, Citation for Cultural Contribution from NYC.
“Using the arts to address pressing social issues, to cross racial lines. Disruption through inclusion. Developing artists as people in the community. It’s not just dancers as an instrument of the choreographer’s vision––there is a dynamic interplay between the art she [Tiffany] creates through the company and the opportunities for each of these dancers to become artists in their own right.”
