Kimani Fowlin is a Dancer, Choreographer, Associate Professor and Director of the Dance program as well as Chair of the Theatre & Dance Department at Drew University. She has been on the dance faculty at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University for 25 years. She was awarded the New York State Dance Education Association’s Outstanding Dance Educator Award. Some of Kimani’s work highlights include performing and teaching in Russia as part of an International Festival of Dance on the Volga; performing in Ghana for Panafest; and performing in Greece with funk band Milo Z. She co-founded Boom!Beep!Bop!, a children’s dance class rooted in African Diasporic dance, music, and culture. Embodied Truth: Finding Ways To Move Together is an ongoing collaboration with Daniel Burkholder established in 2019 that honors the blessings and the burdens of being a parent by examining gender and race through the lenses of parenting. In January 2020 she co-organized an immersion, Dancing Around Race: Whiteness in Higher Education with Gerald Casel and Kate Mattingly at the University of Utah. In June 2020, Kimani helped launch Black Dance Stories as a founding member, an organization that supports, upholds, highlights, and celebrates Black Creatives through interviews, panels, convenings, and performances. One of Kimani’s favorite magical dance bubbles is teaching and dancing at Bates Dance Festival in Maine for the past three years. In March 2023, Kimani was invited to choreograph, perform, and teach master classes at the International Dance Festival in Lebanon.

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