Rashaun Mitchell is a Guggenheim Fellow and recipient of the NY Dance and Performance Award (Bessies) for “Outstanding Emerging Choreographer.” His choreographic work with ongoing collaborator Silas Riener involves the building of collaborative worlds through improvisational techniques, digital technologies, and material construction. Since 2010 they have created over 25 multidisciplinary dance works including site-responsive installations, gallery performances, dances for film, and proscenium dances in venues such as the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Barbican Centre, and The Walker Arts Center. Mitchell has received several Princess Grace Awards, a Foundation for Contemporary Art “Grant to Artist,” and a Bessie Award for “Sustained achievement in the work of Merce Cunningham 2004-2012.” He is the Co-Director of the Merce Cunningham Trust.
