Cuban American dancer, choreographer, and educator Beatrice Capote has been named Mellon Artist in Residence for 2024-2025 [See bio below.]
As part of World Making and Social Emergency, an initiative supported by the Mellon Foundation, the Hemispheric Institute recently announced the 2024-2025 academic-year cohort of Mellon Fellows and Artists in Residence. “These accomplished colleagues make art, conduct research, build archives, and strengthen activism.”
The 2024-2025 fellows and artists-in-residence are Lisa Paravisini-Gebert 2024-2025 Mellon Scholar in Residence, Regina José Galindo 2024-2025 Mellon Artist in Residence, Beatrice Capote 2024-2025 Mellon Artist in Residence, Thando Kafele Fall 2024 Mellon Artist in Residence, Victor Ultra Omni 2025 Mellon Scholar in Residence, Aissatou Bey-Bara Spring 2025 Mellon Folklorist in Residence, and Elena Martínez 2025 Mellon Folklorist in Residence.
Beatrice Capote 2024-2025 Mellon Artist in Residence
Beatrice Capote is a Cuban American dancer, choreographer, and educator, best known for creating Capotechnique
, which blends Afro-Cuban dance with contemporary forms. She is Associate Professor in the department of Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance at Indiana University Bloomington, where she is in her seventh season with Camille A. Brown’s dance company.
Capote earned an A.A. from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. She went on to earn a B.A. in Dance Education and an M.F.A. in Dance from Montclair State University. She has performed for
prestigious choreographers such as Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion, Matthew Rushing, Darrell Moultrie, Christal Brown’s INSPIRIT, a dance company, and Sita Frederick’s Areytos Performance Works.
Her solo works, like Reyita and Yemaya, have been featured at the Battery Dance Festival, BAAD! ASS Women’s Festival, and the Contemporary Dance Series at Bryant Park, among others.Capote’s recent work as Yoruba Consultant/Choreographer for the off-Broadway production The Half God of Rainfall at the New York Theatre Workshop was featured in The New York Times.
Capote choreographed for four-time Grammy award winner Angelique Kidjo on her newest musical Yemandja!, and performed for Jazz at Lincoln Center with Grammy-nominated and Grammy-award winners Paquito D’Rivera, Wynton Marsalis, and orchestra leader Mr. Elio Villa Franca. She was a guest artist at Texas Woman’s University, where she introduced Capotechnique. She also served as the choreographer for Citrus, a chore-poem play at Northern Stage, and The Wedding Band Musical at Montclair State University.
As a 2024-2025 Mellon Artist in Residence at the Hemispheric Institute, Capote will create Radical Goddesses. This work will explore the stories of three black Cuban women who fought for political change. She will also perform her work Reyita and will develop a collection for the Institute’s digital video archive (HIDVL).
For more information, see https://hemisphericinstitute.org/en/artists-in-residence/beatrice-capote.html
Cuban American dancer, choreographer, and educator Beatrice Capote has been named Mellon Artist in Residence for 2024-2025 [See bio below.] As part of World Making and Social Emergency, an initiative supported by the Mellon Foundation, the Hemispheric Institute recently announced the 2024-2025 academic-year cohort of Mellon Fellows and Artists in Residence. “These accomplished colleagues make art,
