Vanessa Walters is a Brooklyn-based choreographer, director, filmmaker, and performer. Her ongoing multimedia project Ripening has been featured at Lincoln Center, Tribeca Film Festival, Triskelion Arts, NADA Art Fair/Art Basel, Galapagos Art Space, FLICfest Dance Festival, and others. Through live performance, film, installation and virtual reality, Ripening explores human psychosocial relationships with time and the wonder and cruelty it wreaks.
Prior to creating Ripening in 2012, Walters was lead choreographer/dancer for Fischerspooner for 11 years, choreographing and performing for stage and video. The Fischerspooner production Between Worlds was created in collaboration with The Wooster Group and toured internationally. In 2016 and 2017, Walters toured extensively in performance collaboration with Gogol Bordello. Walters has choreographed and performed in several films and videos with artist / director Marcel Dzama, most notably “Une Danse des Bouffons” (Toronto Film Festival), NYCB video installation at Lincoln Center, and in live performance at PS1 MoMA. Walters is the show choreographer for TruTV’s “At Home with Amy Sedaris,” just having completed season 3 in February of 2020.
An inaugural 2018 Sokoloff Arts fellow, Walters is a returning 2020 resident at Town Stages, and also a 2020 Harkness Foundation for Dance Grantee for Ripening.