Shamar Watt
M.F.A. Candidate
Shamar Watt is an experimental multidisciplinary artist born in Kingston, Jamaica, raised in Miami, and based in Miami and New York City. He has worked as a multidisciplinary performer with Nora Chipaumire since 2015. He was nominated as one of the top 25 performers/choreographers to watch for 2019 Dance Magazine. Watt was a 2018 Bessie Nominee and in 2019 he was the recipient of the prestigious Bessie Award for Outstanding Performance.
Watt challenges the way performance is created and experienced, and is driven by the politics of black frequencies as they shift/manipulate space and can enable the body to respond in radical ways towards illumination.
