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Spotlight WOE: Paige Fraser

ExcellentThis Young Lady is a STAR.

Although it is hard work, requires sacrifice, extreme compromise, flexibility, intelligence and creativity.....she makes life as an Award-Winning Dancer, Model, Performer and Face of an Arts Foundation look easy.

Ms. Paige Fraser is our recognized Woman of Excellence, in the March Month of Women's Empowerment.

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This Bronx Native and Dance Scholar has worked work renown Dance Artists and Choreographers throughout the World. She's represented thee prestigious historically Modern Dance Company of our time, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Company II and can found on billboard and advertisement across lands.

Her sweet spirit transcends in any interview, conversation, talk or television premiere to endeavors and her ferocious dancing translates Power and Presence onstage. For the past five (5) Seasons Fraser has been with Visceral Dance Chicago as a company member, but has epically made her mark throughout the Chicagoland region in more ways than one. Her most recent commission was on Northwestern University Dancers, choreographing piece entitled: Ascension.





Paige Fraser’s new work, Ascension was inspired by American artist Robert Pruitt’s portrait of a young woman gazing intently upward, wearing a tank top with flying saucers. “I saw his show in Los Angeles at the California African American Museum and it moved me immensely”, said the dance artist.



Paige draws her strength from her family, her loving parents who taught her the value of hard work and ethic and Immigrants, Jamaican-Americans.

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The immediate support comes from her loving-friend and life partner, Darryl Hoffman who has also made leap in bounds in the dance world, creating original scores for dance companies and new works through the Chi.
To Learn more about him, check out this INTERVIEW with DJ Hoffman on his collaboration with Dancer, Choreographer Anthony Burrell on his piece Endangered Species.




Paige is bi-coastal, providing opportunities for young Artists with or without physical challenges, through through Paige Fraser Foundation.

Her next performance venture this Spring will feature her as, "Minnie" in Tony-Award Winning Broadway Show West Side Story at the Lyric Opera in Chicago.

Congratulations Paige!!!
......continue to Trail blaze and do 
EXCELLENT THINGS.

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