Kimani Fowlin is a dancer, choreographer, Associate Professor and
Director of the Dance Department as well as Chair of the Theatre & Dance
Department at Drew University in New Jersey. She has been on the dance
faculty at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University for over 20
years. She was awarded the New York State Dance Education
Association’s Outstanding Dance Educator Award. Kimani’s work includes
performing and teaching in Russia as part of an International Festival of
Dance on the Volga; performing in Ghana for Panafest; and performing in
Greece with funk band Milo Z. She co-founded Boom!Beep!Bop!, a
children’s dance class rooted in African Diasporic culture. In January 2020
she co-organized an immersion with Gerald Casel at the University of Utah
on Dancing Around Race: Whiteness in Higher Education. One of Kimani’s
favorite magical dance bubbles is teaching at Bates Dance Festival in
Maine. In March 2023 Kimani choreographed, performed, and taught
master classes at the International Dance Festival in Lebanon.
