Name: Choreographing the Unknown: Vicious Terrain
Start: 2024-04-14T16:00:00
Location: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MIT Music and Theater Arts

MTA Visiting Artist Janessa Clark is a BESSIE Award-nominated choreographer, dance filmmaker, performer, and installation artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Her practice combines dance, video, and language to develop art for the stage, screen, and site-specific environments. The work created nourishes a desire to challenge traditional modes of choreography and spectatorship through co-authorship. Janessa holds an MA in Performance Practices and Research from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London and a BFA in Choreography from Arizona State University. Janessa has enjoyed prior residencies through CEC ArtsLink in St Petersburg, Russia, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Lake Studios Berlin, Loyola Marymount University, Exploring the Metropolis at Jamaica Arts Center, THE VISIONARY, and Stockholm University of the Arts (formerly DOCH). Her work has been presented widely over the past 20 years including at HERE Arts Center, Danspace Project, Barry Art Museum, the American Dance Festival, Bate Dance Festival, and internationally at numerous festivals. Her video-dance project COMMUNION, a response to the Covid-19 crisis, was nominated for the 2021 BESSIE Award for Outstanding Production.