Edisa Weeks headlined the 2022 Motion State Dance Festival in Providence. She performed her solo work-in-progress 3 RITES: Liberty before it tours nationally. The Motion State Dance Festival introduces Rhode Island audiences to the latest in contemporary dance. Local and national artists converge to share their boundary-pushing creative explorations with a growing Rhode Island dance audience. Edisa Weeks is a choreographer, educator, curator, and founder of DELIRIOUS Dances. She creates multimedia interactive work that explores our deepest desires, darkest fears, and sweetest dreams. Her work has been performed in a variety of venues including the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Works & Process at the Guggenheim Museum, and Mount Tremper Arts. She has performed with Annie-B Parson’s Big Dance Theater, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Co., Dance Brazil, Homer Avila, Jane Comfort, Jon Kinzel, Muna Tseng, Reggie Wilson/ Fist & Heel Performance Group, Sally Silvers, and Spencer/Colton Dance, among others. In addition, she danced in the 2016 “Bessie” award-winning performance by the Skeleton Architecture. She is on the board of directors for Movement Research and is an associate professor of dance and acting chair of the Department of Drama, Theatre, and Dance at Queens College.
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Class of 1987