Vanessa Walters, ripening founder and creative directoR
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Vanessa Walters is a Brooklyn-based choreographer, director, filmmaker, and performing artist. Her durational, interactive project, RIPENING (2012-ongoing), has been showcased at Lincoln Center, Tribeca Film Festival, Triskelion Arts, NADA Art Fair/Art Basel, Galapagos Art Space, FLICfest Dance Festival, Chashama/Anita’s Way, Dance on Camera, the Video Art and Experimental Film Festival, the Norwood Club, and The Space at Irondale. As a freelance choreographer and performer, Walters has also toured with musical acts Fischerspooner and Gogol Bordello, choreographed for leading contemporary performance artists and maintains ongoing collaborations with Marcel Dzama, and has choreographed for television. Her freelance contributions have been presented at London’s Royal Festival Hall, Hammerstein Ballroom, NYC’s Deitch Projects, MOCA LA, the Pompidou Center, MoMA PS1, as well as on “The Jimmy Kimmel Show,” “The Carson Daly Show,” and “At Home with Amy Sedaris,” among others.
Walters, a first generation American (Australian/British), was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, land of John Waters and crab cakes. At age 15, Walters began her dance training at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore and went on to earn her BFA in Dance at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.
[Vanessa Walters CV]
Vanessa walters & brian gonzalez, creative directors for ripening film and video incarnations