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Remi Harris is a Barbados-born and Brooklyn-bred multidisciplinary dance artist, performance curator, and arts administrator exploring the intersectionality between movement, new media, and black female representation. Her work manifests in movement improvisation, choreography, site-specific work, movement for video, activations, creative producing, and art programming. Her projects have been featured at Abrons Art Center, Brooklyn Studios for Dance, Danspace Project, Teatro La Tea, Triskelion Arts, Judson Church, The Mark O'Donnell Theater, The Brick Theater, Thalian Hall, Spark Dance Film Festival, Triskelion Dance Film Festival, and the Cucalorus Film Festival in Wilmington North Carolina among others.  

 

She has collaborated with and performed for Racoco/Rx, Sydnie L. Mosley, Christal Brown/INSPIRIT, Katie Workum, Kay Ottinger, Keigwin + Company, Lois Welk, Sxip Shirey, an d Coco Karol, Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born among others. Along with mover Mark Schmidt, she has been making dances collaboratively since 2018 under the performance collective JoyFlux. With an ethos of “Come as You Are,” Remi and Mark create site-specific performances, community activations, movement workshops, and evening-length work.

 

She is currently the Programs Specialist for the NY State Choreographers Initiative (NYSCI), a program supported by the NYS DanceForce and the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA). She has held positions as the Associate Artistic Director of HERE Arts Center, the Education Coordinator at Ballet Hispanico, and the Co-Director of Brooklyn Studios for Dance. She advocates for dance equity as a member of several art collectives and committees. She graduated from Hofstra University with a BA in Dance and was on scholarship.