Britt Whitmoyer Fishel
Britt Whitmoyer Fishel (she/her) is an award-winning choreographer, screendance maker, educator, author, and scholar. Her work examines relationships between the ephemeral nature of live performance and the permanence of dance in the digital sphere, with a research focus on the rhizomes of feminism, gender gap, access, and community.
Fishel leads Britt Fishel & Artists, a collaborative, non-profit contemporary dance company, presenting both live performance and dance film in the Philadelphia community and beyond. Through research and performance, the company aims to foster a better assimilation of the human experience, to democratize and normalize socioeconomic, political, and identity driven conversations that are both diverse and inclusive through intersectionality.
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In addition to BF & Artists, Fishel is the director and curator of Opine Dance Film Festival, an annual, international Screendance festival in its 11th season. She holds a BFA in Dance Performance from East Carolina University and an MFA in Dance (Screendance) from the University of Michigan.
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Fishel has led company tours throughout New York City, Philadelphia, D.C., Richmond, Asheville, Charlotte, Atlanta, Chicago, London, Scotland, Italy, and France. Her screen work has been seen in Greensboro Dance Film Festival, Y’allywood Film Festival, Detroit Dance City Festival, EnCore Dance on Film Festival, DanceBARN, Dance for Reel, FilmFest by Rogue Dancer, Women in Dance Leadership Conference, FringeArts, MashUp Dance's IWD Festival, 20/92 Video Festival, and ACDA, in addition to several gallery exhibitions across the country.
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In 2021, Fishel and BF & Artists received the “Lorenzo il Magnifico” International Award for Performance from the Florence Biennale and in 2022 Fishel authored The Screendance Practitioner's Workbook: A Pre-Production Guide for Creativity and Organization.
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Fishel has presented research at Dance Studies Association's Annual Conferences and sits as Co-Chair of DSA's Dance and Technology Working Group.
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She currently resides in Philadelphia where she is a full time faculty member in the dance department at Drexel University.
