{"id":815,"date":"2019-06-09T16:56:32","date_gmt":"2019-06-09T16:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imaginedtheatres.com\/?post_type=person&#038;p=815"},"modified":"2020-10-07T20:34:08","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T20:34:08","slug":"tara-aisha-willis","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/tara-aisha-willis\/","title":{"rendered":"Tara Aisha Willis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Tara Aisha Willis <\/b>is a dancer and PhD candidate in Performance Studies at New York University. She is Associate Curator in Performance &amp; Public Practice at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and recently held a NYPL Jerome Robbins Dance Division Research Fellowship in the Dance Theater Workshop archives. Willis is an editorial collective member of <em>Women &amp; Performance<\/em>, former editor for <em>TDR\/The Drama Review<\/em>, and co-editor with Thomas F. DeFrantz of a special issue of <em>The Black Scholar<\/em>. She is co-editor of the performance writing project\u00a0<em>Marking the Occasion<\/em> (Wendy&#8217;s Subway, 2020), with Jaime Shearn Coan. Willis performed in a collaboration between Will Rawls and Claudia Rankine; she also performed in the 2016 \u201cBessie\u201d award-winning performance by The Skeleton Architecture. She was the founding administrator of Movement Research&#8217;s Artists of Color Council and a member of the phase 1 working group for \u201cCreating New Futures,&#8221; the COVID-19 responsive guidelines for ethical dance presenting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tara Aisha Willis is a dancer and PhD candidate in Performance Studies at New York University. She is Associate Curator in Performance &amp; Public Practice at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and recently held a NYPL Jerome Robbins Dance Division Research Fellowship in the Dance Theater Workshop archives. Willis is an editorial collective member [&hellip;]","protected":false},"featured_media":912,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/person\/815"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}