SITA FREDERICK
Sita Frederick(Artistic Director, Areytos Performance Works) is a choreographer, videographer, performer, and teacher. A graduate from Swarthmore College, Frederick performed with Bessie award-winning choreographers Jawole Willa Jo Zollar of Urban Bush Women and Merian Soto as well as Arthur Aviles Typical Theater and Full Circle Productions. Frederick and visual artist, José Ortiz, co-founded Areytos in 2004, producing hybrid performance and artist-in-community projects in the Bronx and Uptown Manhattan. Frederick and Ortiz's signature work, BitterSuite, is a dance theater solo performance, installation and interactive video that explores Haitian-Dominican relations, identity and Gaga in the Dominican Republic and its Diaspora. In 2005, the Bronx Museum of Art and the Point CDC sponsored TRANSAJE -- a street level installation/performance collaboration including art, theater and movement workshops with youth and seniors that investigated trans-nationalism, migration and journey. In 2008 Areytos partnered with the Bronx Museum in Salsa Profunda, a series of visual art and dance workshops for local elementary and high school students, that culminated in a multimedia performance exhibition with guest artists and a live band. In September Areytos produced the dance section of the Uncomun Festival, a multi-arts performance, exhibition and party. Frederick's newest project, What Do You Dance On? was kick-started with an excerpt commissioned for DanceWave Kid's Café in 2007 and is currently in development. Presenters of Frederick's performance works include: Pepatián at Jacob's Pillow Inside/Out, Rutger's University, La Casita at Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, Congress on Research in Dance, Dancenow|nyc|, and the American Dance Legacy Institute, among others. She is also a vocalist and dancer with La 21 Division, a New York based Afro-Dominican music/dance ensemble.
Dancing Son Cubano with Chico Alvarez's Afro-Cuban Big Jazz Band
Areytos Performance Works Cuban Dance Promo