Molissa Fenley

Quick Facts

Full Name	Molissa Fenley
Occupation	Choreographer
Date Of Birth	Nov 15, 1954(1954-11-15)
Age	70
Birthplace	Las Vegas
Country	United States
Birth City	Nevada
Horoscope	Scorpio

Molissa Fenley Biography

Molissa Fenley is one of the most popular and richest Choreographer who was born on November 15, 1954 in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. Molissa Molissa (nee Avril Molissa) Fenley was born November 15, 1954 in Las Vegas, Nevada. She is the youngest child of John Morris Fenley and Eileen Allison Walker. Fenley moved with her family to Ithaca, NY at the age of six months. Her father was a Cornell University professor of Agricultural Extension. Her family moved to Nigeria at the age of six. Her father was a USAID programme officer for the US State Department. Fenley went to high school in Spain and returned to the USA at age 16 where she earned her BA in Dance from Mills College. Fenley, who graduated from Mills College in 1975, moved to New York City immediately to start her career as a choreographer/dancer.

Boca Raton (1980), dance mix by Paul Alexander from Talking Heads. Steven Keister, Decor

Peripheral Vision (1981), with music by Mark Freedman

Gentle Desire (1981), with music by Mark Freedman. Commissioned by the American Dance Festival

Mix (1979), Commissioned By The Kitchen for Video, Music and Dance

Molissa Fenley Net Worth

Molissa Fenley is one of the richest Choreographer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Molissa Fenley 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Fenley arrived in New York City in 1975 and trained with Viola Farber, Merce Cunningham and the Erick Hawkins School. Fenley was a dancer for Carol Conway and Andrew deGroat during her first year in New York. In 1977, Molissa Feenley and Dancers was formed. Fenley began to create her own work. Her work received more attention in America and abroad after a 1980 tour of European festivals. From 1977 to 1987, her early career was devoted to presenting ensemble work. Fenley and her dancers demonstrated remarkable stamina through intricate patterning and sustained passages at high speed. This was exemplified by works like Energizer (1980). Fenley and her dancers took part in more traditional dance classes. They also did weight training, running, calisthenics, and weight training to build the endurance and strength necessary to perform her physically demanding choreography. Fenley has kept this athletic virtuosity throughout the course of her career.

Video Clones (1979), video, and performance work by Keith Haring

Energizer (1980), with music by Mark Freedman. Commissioned by Dance Theater Workshop

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Fenley’s contribution to her field has been recognized with awards in the United States and internationally. She is an eleven-time recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Choreography Fellowship. Fenley received a Bessie Award for Choreography in 1985 for her work Cenotaph and again in 1988 for State of Darkness. Fenley received a 2000 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award. She is a Guggenheim Fellow (2008), a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome (2008) and recipient of the American Masterpieces Initiative from the National Endowment of the Arts (2010). Fenley is a member of many professional arts organizations such as the Atlantic Center for the Arts, American Dance Guild, Asian Cultural Council, CHIME Mentorship program, Dance USA, International Dance Council and New York Live Arts. She is the Executive Director of the Momenta Foundation which she founded in 1986. Mills College and Higher Education Teaching In addition to being one of Mills College’s most esteemed alumna, Fenley has been on the Mills College Dance Department faculty since 1999. She began as a Distinguished Visiting Professor in 1999 and became an Associate Professor of Dance in 2006. She was made Full Professor in 2013. Fenley teaches courses in technique, choreography and oversees MFA candidates’ thesis projects. Additionally, Fenley often sets work on Mills College’s Repertory Dance Company. She was awarded the Mills College Sarlo Excellence in Teaching Award in 2011. Extensive archives from Fenley’s career are held at the F.W. Olin Library’s Special Collections on Mills campus. Fenley has taught as a Visiting Lecturer at New York University’s Experimental Theater Wing, University of Georgia at Athens and University of Utah. She worked as a Resident Artist for the Baryshnikov Arts Center, The Atlantic Center for the Arts, The American Academy in Rome, Bard College, The Hotchkiss School, The Asian Cultural Council in Tokyo, Yaddo, the Bogliasco Foundation, Djerassi, and Harvard University. She has taught repertory workshops at Bennington College, Barnard/Columbia and Hunter College.

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Molissa Ranked on the list of most popular Choreographer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Molissa Fenley celebrates birthday on November 15 of every year.

Geologic Moments (1986), with composers Philip Glass and Julius Eastman. Commissioned by the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Next Wave Festival