dana e. fitchett

dana e. fitchett is a multidisciplinary artist and radical mixed-race Black woman who uses her relationship to music, visual art, and movement as a sandbox for exploration of identity and issues of justice, and for seeking healing from racism and capitalism and reimagining our possibilities. Trained in classical ballet from a young age, dana later explored a vast range of movement styles, including tap, modern, hip-hop, and jazz, from all different cultural traditions. In the early- to mid-2000s, she was put on to underground house music clubs in Boston, New York, and other cities on the East Coast; in these clubs, she was able to access her authentic movement, unlimited by artificial and imposed barriers. The result is something that's not particularly defineable: a fluid, subtle, nuanced response to music with evidence of influence from ballet as well as from traditional West African styles. Her visual art is also committed to unapologetic authenticity, consistently abstract and similarly fluid and nuanced. [profile photo credit: jason lam]