Rujeko Dmbutshena  Advisor | Facilitating Artist

As a Zimbabwean artist living in America, Rujeko Dumbutshena bridges diversely different cultures. She has been a part of innovative works, taught workshops, and directed conferences to bring together students and audiences as witnesses and participants in the profundity of African art today. She aspires for the highest western institutional accolades, while standing rooted in the antiquity of her people.Rujeko is an experienced university, college and high school dance instructor and is currently on faculty at Sarah Lawrence College teaching the fundamental aesthetics of neo traditional African movement. And her Broadway experience as an original ensemble dancer in the hit musical FELA! perfectly arms her to represent African art in an even more impactful way.