Benn, Kiara

Kiara Benn (Brooklyn, New York)

2023–24 Season: Choreographer, Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels' Omar

Recent and Upcoming: Choreographer of Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels’ Omar (LA Opera), just for (you) (New York’s The Performing Garage), tempo take me … (Wesleyan University); choreographer and dancer for Omar (Carolina Performing Arts, Boston Lyric Opera), excuse me while I take up space (Wesleyan University); assistant director for Omar (Spoleto Festival USA); dancer in Brendan Fernandes’ Flashes of Utopia (New York’s Water Street Projects), Fernandes’ Free Fall 49 (North Adams’ Mass MoCA), Ian Andrew Askew’s Until Other Times (Brooklyn’s JACK), Nicole Stanton’s Storied Places (Williams College, Wesleyan University), Fernandes’ A Call and Response (Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art)

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