Tara Aisha Willis
Tara Aisha Willis is a dancer and PhD candidate in Performance Studies at New York University. She is Associate Curator in Performance & 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 Women & Performance, former editor for TDR/The Drama Review, and co-editor with Thomas F. DeFrantz of a special issue of The Black Scholar. She is co-editor of the performance writing project Marking the Occasion (Wendy’s Subway, 2020), with Jaime Shearn Coan. Willis performed in a collaboration between Will Rawls and Claudia Rankine; she also performed in the 2016 “Bessie” award-winning performance by The Skeleton Architecture. She was the founding administrator of Movement Research’s Artists of Color Council and a member of the phase 1 working group for “Creating New Futures,” the COVID-19 responsive guidelines for ethical dance presenting.