Rennie Harris Facing Mekka

Rennie Harris

Rennie Harris brought “social” dance forms like hip-hop and B-boy to the concert stage. Harris has received a Pew Fellowship for choreography and awards from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the City of Philadelphia Cultural Fund, Philadelphia Dance Projects Commission, and a Pew Repertory Development grant. He has been voted one of the most influential people in Philadelphia in the last hundred years by the Philadelphia Weekly.

http://www.rhpm.org,


Awards & Accomplishments

  • 2002

    Grant

    Harris receives National Dance Project Production Grant

  • 2003

    Grant

    Harris receives CalArts Alpert Award in the Arts Grant

  • 2003

    Residency

    Harris is Artist-in-Residence at Walker Art Center in Minneapolis

  • 2007

    Fellowship

    Harris receives USA Artist Fellowship

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