Kent State University
OCTOBER, 2020
EMERGE125 started the first 6 week session residency out of 2 at Kent University. Students are meeting with Tiffany Rea-Fisher and company members virtually with an outcome of a final project that encompasses the entire student body. Students will be focusing on ethical practice and leadership and taking civil rights activism further than the dance studio. The hope is for an end result of a student driven, campus wide active participation project.
DECEMBER 3RD, 2020
Tiffany Rea-Fisher was invited to speak at Kent State’s Thomas Schroth Visiting Artist Series. The event was open to the public and Tiffany spoke about how her life experiences brought her to where she is today. The event ended with a Q&A session with the Kent Dance Ensemble students.
Kent Dance Ensemble 2021│Re-Emerge
APRIL 30TH, MAY 1ST & 2ND, 2021
Join the Kent Dance Ensemble, Kent State University’s pre-professional dance company, for an evening of choreography by acclaimed guest artists and performances by Kent State dance students. Re-Emerge features works by Yoshito Sakuraba, Ray Mercer, Gregory King and Catherine Meredith, and will premiere the Kent Dance Ensemble’s virtual collaboration with Tiffany Rea-Fisher, Artistic Director of EMERGE125.
THE VIRTUAL COLLABORATION FOCUSES ON ETHICAL PRACTICE, LEADERSHIP, AND TAKING CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVISM FURTHER THAN THE DANCE STUDIO.
Registration is free but required to attend the virtual performance!
Who We Are with DBR│Tiffany Rea-Fisher
an artistic exchange with Daniel Bernard Roumain
JANUARY 26TH, 2021
THE HOP ON DARTMOUTH’S YOUTUBE PAGE
Join artist-activists for their insights on this critical moment of pandemic and protest along with original collaborative performances.
Inspired by their conversation, Daniel and guests will create and share short performances together. In this episode, Daniel speaks with acclaimed dance-maker and arts leader Tiffany Rea-Fisher. The artists will premiere their new collaboration 8'46", a dance and music piece they created in response to the 8 minutes and 46 seconds during which George Floyd's neck was crushed.
“It feels still very raw and I think that this is a good example of when you see me at the demonstration that I helped organize, that energy and the effort that was put into that feels similarly to putting this piece together. It’s speaking your truth and with nothing else. It’s clean, theres no fluff to it.”
New York University | Performance as Protest
FEBRUARY 1ST, 2022
Executive Artistic Director Tiffany Rea-Fisher taught a “Performance as Protest” class with the students at NYU via Zoom. The class was centered around Tiffany’s experience at the 2020 Juneteenth Freedom March on City Hall. The students shared their collective responses gathered from Tiffany’s Juneteenth speech and participated in movement exercises to dive deeper into the overall embodiment of joy and its power.
Alliance of Families for Justice
The Alliance of Families for Justice seeks to end mass incarceration by empowering the formerly incarcerated and their families:
Re-entry support services
Legal support
Advocacy and communication skills training
Voting rights
“Most people in New York prisons come from just seven communities throughout the state,” Soffiyah Elijah, executive director of the Alliance of Families of Justice, says. “Harlem is one of the hardest-hit communities.”