REBECCA FITTON PROJECTS
Rebecca Fitton (she/her) is from many places.
She creates community through conversation, food, and movement.
Born in England and raised in the woods of Wisconsin, her work as a community member and participatory artist is largely informed by her experiences as a biracial, multi-cultural immigrant. She primarily works in non-traditional performance spaces including bars, grocery stores, rooftops, gardens and streets across New York, New Jersey, Florida, Wisconsin, and Salzburg, Austria. Her work has been presented in New York City at ShowDown/Gibney, Open Performance/Movement Research, Chez Bushwick, Staten Island Arts, Triskelion Arts, LiVEART.US at the Queens Museum, Abrons Arts Center, LEIMAY, Performance is Alive/SATELLITE ART SHOW and EstroGenius. She has been an artist in residence at Center in Grand Rapids, MI, a LEIMAY Subsidized Fellow at CAVE in Brooklyn, NY and a participant in Hemispheric Institute's EMERGENYC program. She received a 2020 New Work Grant from Queens Council on the Arts to present re______, Zoom-based immersive performance, film, and reflection space.
She is the Community Engagement Coordinator for Edisa Weeks/DELIRIOUS Dances and works as an independent arts manager for Will Rawls. Fitton holds space weekly with the six Steering Committee Members of FAILSPACE, a collective of artists working to dismantle oppressive structures within teaching practices. She was a member of Dance/NYC's Junior Committee from 2018-2020.
As a performer, Fitton has worked with Kayla McClellan, Abigail Levine, Adrienne Westwood, Jaqueline Cannon, JACKS, Nathaniel Hendrickson, Renegade Performance Group, Rina Espiritu, Alex Ketley, and Rodger Belman.
Upcoming projects include:
- Traveling to Northern Michigan to engage with the Croft Residency's artists to research how independent, artist-driven residencies are developed and sustained. (postponed due to COVID-19)