Performance Dates & Times
Saturday, August 1 at 3pm

Co-presented with Governors Island Arts as part of INTERVENTIONS

Fana Fraser

A Sweet Victory

Co-presented with Governors Island Arts as part of INTERVENTIONS

Director & Choreographer - FANA FRASER

A Sweet Victory is a group performance and experimental theater practice. This work casts spells for courage with its audience. Surreal scenes of dance and sound are being divined to unfurl with time across the Island. 

Planning Your Visit

A Sweet Victory is co-presented by JACK and Governors Island Arts as part of INTERVENTIONS, and takes place on Governors Island. The performance begins around 3:00 PM, but we invite you to arrive early. As everyone gathers, you'll encounter movement, music, and other live moments that are part of the experience.

Governors Island is just a short ferry ride from Lower Manhattan. The Governors Island Ferry departs from the Battery Maritime Building (10 South Street) approximately every 15 minutes, including 2:15 PM, 2:30 PM, and 2:45 PM. We recommend catching one of the earlier ferries so you can settle in and enjoy the afternoon as the performance unfolds.

Exact location on on Governors Island, along with additional arrival details, will be emailed to all ticket holders closer to the performance.

About the Artist

FANA FRASER

Fana Fraser is an artist, director and producer whose work is ignited by expressions of eroticism, power, and compassion. She is interested in the study of behavior and being within and of dance, its performance; embodied / and astro-phenomenal creative performance of sound, and singing movement. Fana’s performance work has been presented at venues across New York, Philadelphia, Boston, San Francisco and Trinidad & Tobago. Her short film, ‘nesting’ commissioned by TBA21-Academy in 2023 has been screened at UN World Oceans Day Conferences in Nice, France and Costa Rica and was an official selection for the 2025 Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival. Fana has been an artist in residence at Djerassi Resident Artists Program, The Watermill Center, BAM Fisher Studio, Movement Research, Abrons Arts Center, MANCC Forward Dialogues, Petronio Residency Center, New Waves! Dance & Performance Institute in Trinidad & Tobago, and other spaces. Her performance work has been presented at several venues including: New York Botanical Garden, Brooklyn Museum, Black Aesthetics at the Judson Church, BAAD!, Gibney, Dance Mission Theater in San Francisco and Trinidad Theatre Workshop. Her work has received support from the Jerome Foundation, NYSCA, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and the Van Lier Fellowship. As an educator, Fana has been on faculty at Harvard TDM as a Visiting Lecturer in Dance (Fall 2024); taught workshops in the MFA Dance Program at Sarah Lawrence, and during 2020-2022 they taught as an Adjunct Associate Professor of Dance at University of the Arts in Philadelphia. At NYU Tisch and Adelphi University she has led workshops in BFA Dance Programs. Fana served as Rehearsal Director for Ailey II from 2016-20. She was shortlisted for the 2020 BCLF Elizabeth Nunez Caribbean-American Writer’s Prize.  fanafraser.com