About: Raissa Simpson
Raissa Simpson is a post-disciplinary artist, choreographer, scholar, and storyteller whose dances are at the intersection of complex racial and cultural identities. She values choreography as a form of academic scholarship and research as demonstrated in her book chapter Writings On Dance: Artistic Reframing for Celestial Black Bodies (Palgrave MacMillan 2021), which offers considerations on how Afrofuturism can be staged in contemporary theater. Celebrating its 20th Anniversary, PUSH Dance Company places the continuation of its social impact with the creation of Sanctuary, a dance studio centering global majority artists.
