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Ms. Wright has created works and pieces for an eclectic array of students, clients and venues, most notably Williams College, Maryland Dance Ensemble, James Madison University,
Brooklyn Arts Exchange Kids, Young Dancers in Repertory, Quinto and Company's production of Marc Buchanan's Pelle Pelle (NYC's Men's Fashion Week), Bertha Pan's FACE (Saving Face Films, LLC), Andrew Jannetti and Dancers.
Recently, Ms. Wright choreographed and performed in Time Life's "Uptown
Saturday Night" infomercial featuring Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson. In
2005, she co-choreographed Tami Chynn's "Tell me Seh" (Universal Records) directed
by Tim Naylor and Nadia Sampson and choreographed live action with animation
for the Emmy award-winning thirty eighth season of Sesame Street featuring Grammy-award winner,
John Legend, produced by Kalira and Funkmation Productions. She has also taught her unique course, Afrohopatazz, as well as other forms of dance, throughout the Northeast, California, and Johannesburg, South Africa.
A 2007 Harlem Stage Fund
recipient for Sing-A-Song and a 2004 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Choreography, Ms. Wright
has received grants from the Puffin Foundation Grant for her original
dance-theater piece the HO show in 2001, the Gowanus Arts Exchange Space
Grant, and the Astral Career Grant from the National Foundation for
Advancement in the Arts, and a 1997 recipient of the Puffin Foundation
Grant for Welcome to the Chris Club: Where Private Moments are Welcomed. More recently, she was an Artist-in-Residence at the Brooklyn Arts
Exchange from 2001-2003. She has also presented original works in
collaboration with poet Carl Hancock Rux at the Whitney Museum of American
Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Nuyorican Poets Café and the Brooklyn
Academy of Music's Harvey Theater.
A graduate of the State University of New York at Purchase with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance, Ms. Wright has been a Guest Artist at several East Coast universities. In 2001, she was an Arthur Levitt, Jr. '52, Artist-in-Residence Fellow at Williams College in Williamstown, MA where she premiered a site-specific work at MASS MoCA.
Currently, Ms Wright is touring as an ensemble member and dance captain with "Temptation of St Anthony", the new production from acclaimed director Robert Wilson and composer Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon. Ms. Wright can also be seen in Carrie Mae Weems' "Coming Up For Air"
and Liza Johnson's "If Not then, Maybe" video projects. In addition, she has toured internationally and nationally with the Urban Bush Women, Movin Spirits Dance Theater, Jane Comfort and Company, Mark Dendy Dance Theater,
Okra Dance, and Pepatain.
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