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October 07, 2006
Rebecca Bryant, Dancer/Choreographer, 10-6-06
Rebecca Bryant collaborates with dancers, musicians, actors and visual artists on dance pieces that combine movement, sound, text and visuals. She is an improvisor as well as a choreographer, and has become known for creating work that is overtly political and often humorous. Rebecca creates work as a solo artist, as a Lower Left Performance Collective core artist and as co-founder of the past)(modern performance duo (with percussionist Don Nichols).
Rebecca brings dance to the community by performing in traditional theaters as well as site-specific locations, including art galleries, fountains, abandoned electrical factories, public parks, rusted spiral staircases, mall escalators, swimming pools and cliff sides. Currently based in San Diego, Rebecca has taught and performed around the U.S. and abroad.
Rebecca is a recipient of the Glorya Kaufman, Jean Irwin and Forti Family Awards (1999-2000), a Regents Conference Travel Grant (2001), an Artsbridge Scholarship (2000), and a residency at the Djerassi Resident Artist Program (2005). Her choreographic work was selected for the Gala Concert at the Southwest Region American College Dance Festival in 2000.
Rebecca holds a BA in Visual Art from the University of California, San Diego, where she specialized in photography, painting, film and installation. She received an MFA in Dance from the University of California, Los Angeles, where she focused on performance theory, body modalities and dance education in addition to her choreographic and improvisational work.
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