TARA AISHA WILLIS
Tara Aisha Willis performed in a collaboration by Will Rawls and Claudia Rankine and in The Skeleton Architecture’s “Bessie” award-winning performance. She is a PhD candidate in Performance Studies at New York University and Associate Curator in Performance & Public Practice at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Willis has been an editor for Women & Performance and TDR, co-edited an issue of The Black Scholar with Thomas F. DeFrantz, held a NYPL Jerome Robbins Dance Division Research Fellowship, and recently co-edited/co-curated the dance writing book Marking the Occasion with Jaime Shearn Coan on Wendy’s Subway press. She was the founding administrator of Movement Research’s Artists of Color Council, and was in the first working group for “Creating New Futures,” the COVID-19 responsive guidelines for ethical dance presenting.
Photo: Ian Douglas