Kayla Farrish

Kayla Farrish is een zwarte Amerikaanse regisseur die dans-theater, film, verhaal en geluidsscore combineert. Ze legt een variërende identiteit vast, de mythische dualiteiten van geschiedenis en huidige overleving, en krachtige dromen die leiden tot bevrijding.  

Ze maakt naast films ook site-specific/immersive performances. Ze deelde onlangs Choir (Carrie Mae Weems Exhibition), To Dream A Lifetime (BlackLight), Roster met Melanie Charles, MIXTAPES met Alex MacKinnon en site-specific Broken Record (Little Island) met Brandon Coleman, en Rinsing and Harbor films. Ze presenteerde haar werk oa. in Lincoln Center, Park Avenue Armory, Symphony Space en National Sawdust. 

Ze ontving de Sundance Uprise Grant for Emerging BIPOC Directors, Bessie Awards voor NYLA's Motherboard Suite en December 8th-Gibney, NY Times Top 2021 Dance Performances- Roster en Breakout Star. Ze ontving de Harkness Promise Award voor 2022. Tijdens 2022 was ze rehearsal director voor Punchdrunk Sleep No More, en adjunct-faculty voor NYU Tisch Dance.

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Kayla Farrish is a Black American Director merging dance-theater, filmmaking, narrative, and sound score. She captures ranging identity, the mythical dualities of history and present survival, and powerful dreaming lending to liberation.  

Her commissions include Gibney, Louis Armstrong House Museum, Danspace, Pepatian, Little Island, Harlem Stage, Blacklight Summit and beyond. Some works formed: Black Bodies Sonata, The New Frontier: My dear America, Sunny Side/Inside the Laughing Barrel, December 8th, Martyr’s Fiction, and others. She creates live works, films, site-specific/immersive, and collaborations. She recently shared Choir (Carrie Mae Weems Exhibition), To Dream A Lifetime (BlackLight), Roster with Melanie Charles, MIXTAPES with Alex MacKinnon and site-specific Broken Record (Little Island) with Brandon Coleman, and Rinsing and Harbor films. Presenting spaces include Lincoln Center, Park Avenue Armory, Symphony Space, and National Sawdust, among receiving support from Watermill Center for the Arts, Armstrong Now, Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective, Baryshnikov Arts Center, La Mama Theater, and others. 

She received the Sundance Uprise Grant for Emerging BIPOC Directors, Bessie Awards for NYLA’s Motherboard Suite and December 8th-Gibney, NY Times Top 2021 Dance Performances- Roster and Breakout Star. She is a recipient of the Harkness Promise Award for 2022. During 2022, she was a Rehearsal Director for Punchdrunk Sleep No More, and adjunct faculty for NYU Tisch Dance.