Performance Dates & Times
Saturday, August 1 at 3pm

Presented in partnership with Governors Island Arts

Fana Fraser

Sweet Victory

Pre­sent­ed as part of Gov­er­nors Island Arts’ INTER­VEN­TIONS

Director, Performer, Choreographer - FANA FRASER

featuring
JASMINE HEARN
SOLEIL COLLYEARN

Sweet Victory is a choreographic spell which calls forth methodologies that generate courage and harness life force in dialogue with earth, skies and wind, carving pathways into shared desire. Inspired by the sweetness and healing properties of raw honey, this work is steeped in densely formulated dances of communication along with fugitive actions of ongoing resistance, rebellion and survivance. The trio performance is a utopian practice which harnesses polyrhythmic sounds and gestures of Black Islandness to map liberation movements of queer diasporic Black Futures.

About the Artist

FANA FRASER

Fana Fraser is an artist, producer, and director whose work is rooted in expressions of eroticism, power, and compassion. Fana’s live performance work has been presented at venues across New York, Philadelphia, California, and Trinidad & Tobago. Her short film, ‘nesting’, commissioned by TBA21-Academy in 2023, has been screened in Sri Lanka, Spain, France, Costa Rica, Barbados and was an official selection for the 2025 Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival. She has been an artist in residence at Djerassi, The Watermill Center, BAM Fisher Studio and other locations. As an educator, Fana has taught at Harvard TDM, in the MFA Dance Program at Sarah Lawrence, and at University of the Arts. 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