Yasin Aziz Fairley
| Yasin Aziz Fairley | |
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 Fairley in Queer Spectra Arts Festival | |
| Born | Yasin Aziz Fairley Newark, New Jersey, U.S. |
| 🏫 Education | Bates College |
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| 🌐 Website | yasinfairley |
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Yasin Fairley (Ya-Ya) is an independent performance artist-activist who is a creator of dance, voice, and all aspects of art. Fairley was born and raised in Newark, New Jersey. They grew up dancing and creating their whole life, drawn from their own identity and culture.[1]
Education
Ya-Ya attended Bates College, and studied Cultural Anthropology, Modern Dance with a concentration in Gender/Queer Studies. Recently they received their Masters of Fine Arts in Modern Dance from The University of Utah in 2016, in addition to their dedication to their career as a choreographer and dancer.[2][3]
Career
Ya-Ya Fairley has always been a critical thinker when it comes to the theory of dance; they break down boundaries, limits, and cultural normalities revolving around dance and dance theory. In Spring of 2016, they designed a course called, “Performance, Theory & Cultural Practices.”[4] This course focuses on the connections and disconnections regarding Performance Studies, Gender Studies & Ethnic Studies.[5] Throughout their time as a performer and creator, they have not only created physical movement and art, but have performed in many intellectual studies of how culture intertwines with how we move our bodies. Ya-Ya’s MFA research project was produced by Weber State University for their Annual Black History Month Celebration.[6] Along with their love and passion for culture, gender, and ethnic studies, they have organized and taught a variety of workshops and a multitude of conferences including The Conference on Diverse Excellence (University of Utah, SLC) and The Gender Revolution Conference (Rowland Hall SLC).[7]
Activism
As a Black, queer, trans performance artist, Ya-Ya has been “navigating oppression while living and dancing on the margins,” she states.[8][9] Ya-Ya's dance style radiates the power and beauty that evolves from the resistance of a racist society that has taken the voices away of, and traumatized, Black people for hundreds of years.[10] Ya-Ya's dance style is made for all audiences; their privilege, ethnicity, race, and gender may vary, but will still impact the audiences, just in different ways with different values. Fairley states, “It feels liberating to be able to grapple with not only theoretical concepts through dance but also infusing it with a politicized aesthetic that feels accessible to the audience,” she says.
Ya-Ya feels strongly that as a Black-trans-femme person, she is so personally connected to “hyper-marginalized bodies that, too, are living and dancing on the margins of this culture … I hope that my performances are able to capture a moment in people’s lives that allow them to simply take a reflexive breath. I hope that dancers/artists from multiple races, genders, sexualities and abilities feel affirmed and seen in my work. I want to inspire them to have a conversation with the work, to sit down with the work and respond in radically tender ways.”[11] Fairley's work induces a conversation within their viewers whether it is mental, or verbal: These conversations include political ideals, morality, gender, sexuality, privilege, and many other forms of mental stimulation and question. Their activism flows through their body, translating to the audience, then allowing the viewers to tell Ya-Ya's vision through their own lens.[12]
Personal Life
Ya-Ya Fairley currently lives in Seattle, Washington and is currently an Admissions Counselor at Cornish College of the Arts.[13]
Performance
- Body Vignettes Performance - Feb 2016
- Mini-Documentary on Black Ballet Dancer - Dec 2014
- Abject Body MFA Thesis, Modern Dance - Dec 2015
- Graduate Salon piece: "Mahfuz" - Dec 2014
- Dystopic.Body - April 2014
Written Works
References
- ↑ Fairley, Y. (n.d.). Bio. yayadance. Retrieved December 9, 2021, from https://yasinfairley.wixsite.com/yayadance/bio.
- ↑ Fairley, Y. (n.d.). Bio. yayadance. Retrieved December 9, 2021, from https://yasinfairley.wixsite.com/yayadance/bio.
- ↑ Martinez, C. (2021, April 23). Why SLCC hired a Womxn's coordinator and how she's helping students. The Salt Lake Tribune. Retrieved December 9, 2021, from https://www.sltrib.com/artsliving/2021/04/23/why-slcc-hired-womxns/.
- ↑ Fairley, Y. (n.d.). Bio. yayadance. Retrieved December 9, 2021, from https://yasinfairley.wixsite.com/yayadance/bio.
- ↑ Fairley, Y. (n.d.). Bio. yayadance. Retrieved December 9, 2021, from https://yasinfairley.wixsite.com/yayadance/bio.
- ↑ Fairley, Y. (n.d.). Bio. yayadance. Retrieved December 9, 2021, from https://yasinfairley.wixsite.com/yayadance/bio.
- ↑ Fairley, Y. (n.d.). Bio. yayadance. Retrieved December 9, 2021, from https://yasinfairley.wixsite.com/yayadance/bio.
- ↑ Feigel, K. (2020, December 24). Bold & beautiful – slug LGBTQ+: Ya-ya Fairley. SLUG Magazine. Retrieved December 9, 2021, from https://www.slugmag.com/arts/fashion/bold-beautiful-ya-ya-fairley/.
- ↑ Martinez, C. (2021, April 23). Why SLCC hired a Womxn's coordinator and how she's helping students. The Salt Lake Tribune. Retrieved December 9, 2021, from https://www.sltrib.com/artsliving/2021/04/23/why-slcc-hired-womxns/.
- ↑ Feigel, K. (2020, December 24). Bold & beautiful – slug LGBTQ+: Ya-ya Fairley. SLUG Magazine. Retrieved December 9, 2021, from https://www.slugmag.com/arts/fashion/bold-beautiful-ya-ya-fairley/.
- ↑ Feigel, K. (2020, December 24). Bold & beautiful – slug LGBTQ+: Ya-ya Fairley. SLUG Magazine. Retrieved December 9, 2021, from https://www.slugmag.com/arts/fashion/bold-beautiful-ya-ya-fairley/.
- ↑ Martinez, C. (2021, April 23). Why SLCC hired a Womxn's coordinator and how she's helping students. The Salt Lake Tribune. Retrieved December 9, 2021, from https://www.sltrib.com/artsliving/2021/04/23/why-slcc-hired-womxns/.
- ↑ Fairley, Y. (n.d.). Bio. yayadance. Retrieved December 9, 2021, from https://yasinfairley.wixsite.com/yayadance/bio.
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