Years active 2004 - present | ||
Education Trisha Brown School, Centre National de la Dansearis, City College of San Francisco, Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance Occupation Dancer, choreographer, artist Notable work Twenty Looks or Paris Is Burning at the Judson ChurchThe Ghost of Montpellier Meets the Samurai Style ContemporaryPostmodern Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada | ||
Twenty looks or paris is burning at the judson church trajal harrell panorama 2012
Trajal Harrell is an American dancer and choreographer. Best known for a series entitled Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at The Judson Church, Harrell "confronts the history, construction, and interpretation of contemporary dance."
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- Twenty looks or paris is burning at the judson church trajal harrell panorama 2012
- Walker stage trajal harrell in conversation with philip bither
- References
Harrell's work has been presented at festivals in Paris, Vienna, Berlin, Rio De Janeiro, Montreal, and the Netherlands, and at venues including The Kitchen, New York Live Arts, the Walker Art Center, Danspace Project, Dance Theater Workshop, Performance Space 122, Philadelphia Live Arts, REDCAT, Cornell University, Colorado College, and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. He has shown performance work in visual art contexts at The Museum of Modern Art, the New Museum, MoMA PS1, Fondation Cartier pour L’art Contemporain, the Bronx Museum of the Arts; Fundação Serralves, Centre Pompidou-Metz, and Art Basel.
Harrell has received fellowships from organizations including the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, The Saison Foundation, the Art Matters Foundation, and the Doris Duke Foundation.