Suchi Branfman

Suchi Branfman, choreographer, performer, educator, curator, and activist has worked from the war zones of Managua to Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre and Kampala's Luzira Prison to NYC's Joyce Theatre. Her work strives to create an embodied terrain, grouded in storytelling, dialogue, listening and action. Branfman is currently amidst a ten-year choreographic residency at the California Rehabilitation Center, a medium security state men's prison in Norco, CA and is Artistic Director/Facilitator of the multi-faceted Dancing Through Prison Walls project. She serves on faculty at Scripps College, where she has received Mary W. Johnson Excellence Awards in both Teaching and Research, the Claremont Consortium Faculty Diversity Award, and the QRC Lavender Award. Branfman is a community gardener, a prison abolition activist, and a Session Artist at Recess Space (Brooklyn, NY), Lucas Arts Fellow at Montalvo Arts Center (Saratoga, CA), City of Los Angeles Neighborhood Engaged Artist Resident Fellow and COLA Master Artist,18th Street Arts Center/California Arts Council Creative Corps Fellow, City of Santa Monica Individual Artist Fellow, and recipient of funds from the Foundation for Community Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, amongst others.