Morgan Amirah Burns, originally from Atlanta, Ga, is a 22-year old Brooklyn based multi-disciplinary artist. Morgan is a 2020 graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts Department of Dance. In her own creative practices, filmmaking and dance unite to provoke emotional curiosity about how we, humans, move through the world often in conversation with elements of the natural world. Morgan’s creative pursuits have been recognized by GALLIM with a Moving Women Residency and by the Consulate General of Canada in NYC with the support and creation of her collaborative film “spring promise FUTURES” (2021). She currently is the Inaugural Recipient of the Merce Cunningham Trust Barbara Ensley Award. As a performer, works such as “Retrofit:A New Age” (2022) by Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Reiner have pushed Morgan further down paths of performance art and site-specific research. Her most recent site-specific performance was in collaboration with Multidisciplinary Artist Kilo Kish with their work “Still Dreaming” as a part of Time Square Arts Council x Woman in Windows. She is excited for an exploratory period of development, collaboration and creation here in residence at the New Dance Alliance.
Instagram: @morganamirah
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ankita sharma, photo by Deming Haines
“The festival was such a wonderfully supportive community of artists to perform amongst and a generous audience as well. The performances were inspiring and exceptionally well-run, which I appreciated.”
– ankita sharma
New Dance Alliance
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