Celia Weiss Bambara
Dr. Celia Weiss Bambara is an accomplished dancer, choreographer and scholar as well as a dual citizen of the US and Burkina Faso. She is the artistic director of the CCBdance Project, which was co-founded with Burkina Faso born dance and theater artist, Christian Bambara in 2006. Her choreography, improvisation and/or site- dance work, and screen dance has been shown in the United States, China, Hong Kong, The Middle East, Canada, the Caribbean, West Africa, and in Europe. This work has been shown at venues including: Dancespace (NYC), Movement Research (NYC), Zacho Studios (SF), Links Hall (CHI), Drucker Center (CHI), Institut Francais in Abidjan, Goethe Institut in Abidjan, Alliance Francaise (CHI), Jane Addams Hull House (CHI), African American Museum in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Occidental College, University of Southern California, National Theater in Abidjan (CNAC), INSAAC (National Arts Conservatory in Abidjan), Cannes at the MJC Picaud, Laboragras in Berlin, National Television in Haiti, Trinidad at Alice Yard, in Jamaica at the Caribbean.
Studies Association, Donko Seko in Mali, the Belk Theater at UNC Asheville, and at The Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts, and The Wuhan Institut of Design and Sciences. She is currently working on multi-media works in dance-film, site-dance and photography. Her work has been awarded grants from Cornish College of the Arts, Puffin Foundation, Maryland Arts Council, The Djerassi Foundation, Ragdale Foundation, Ecole Des Sables (Senegal), Donko Seko (Mali), Tanzart (Germany), UCIRA, the state department among others. The work addresses the intersections of practice as research in contemporary and African diasporic dance. She has also taught at Cornish College of the Arts, University of Illinois, Chicago, INSAAC Conservatory in the Ivory Coast, Glendale Community and Occidental College. Her practice-based work addresses improvisation and somatics as practices of interculturalism. Celia is the Head of Dance at the University of Wisconsin, Whitewater and an Assistant Professor of the program.