
Edisa Weeks is a Brooklyn, NY based dance artist and director of DELIRIOUS Dances. The New York Times described her work as having "a lot of imagination and a gift for simple but striking visual effects." Her work has been performed in a variety of venues including Aaron Davis Hall, Alfred University, Chashama Theater, Dance Theater Workshop, Dixon Place, Emory University, Works & Process at the Guggenheim Museum, Jacob's Pillow, The Kennedy Center, The Massachusetts International Festival of the Arts, The Mermaid Parade, The National Black Arts Festival, Summerstages Dance Festival, and The Yard. She has also performed in swimming pools, storefront windows and various living rooms, including living rooms in Berlin, Germany, as part of Haus der Kulturen der Welts 50th anniversary celebration.
Raised in Uganda, Papua New Guinea and Brooklyn, NY, Weeks holds an MFA in choreography from NYU and a BA from Brown University. She has taught at the Alvin Ailey School, Bard College, Brigham Young University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Milwaukee University, Saint Ann's High School and currently teaches at Princeton University.
She has received several awards including a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, a Choreographic Residency at The Yard in Martha's Vineyard, a Mondo Cane Grant from Dixon Place as well as grants from the Puffin Foundation and United States Artist International. Edisa is a resident artists at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center and recently received a Brooklyn Arts Council Grant to bring her work LIAISONS to senior Centers throughout Brooklyn.

As a choreographer I am essentially a storyteller. I am curious about what makes people laugh and cry. What triggers a person to reject a child? What incites a desire to turn into an obsession?
I am also drawn to dream worlds where anything can happen. Dream landscapes intrigue me because they eclipse logic and language and can have multiple meanings. The images of dreams reveal to us the center of our beings, which is what I feel is the responsibility of art. I am interested in making our deepest desires and our darkest fears tangible, so that we can process and perhaps understand them.
— Edisa Weeks










