Caleb Dowden
Photo by Isabella Pagano
|
Caleb Dowden is from New Orleans, Louisiana where she attended the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts and was a pre-professional artist with the New Orleans Ballet Association. During her four years as a student in the Conservatory of Dance at Purchase College, she has had the opportunity to perform contemporary works by Maiya Redding and Rena Bulter as well as classic 20th century work by José Limon and Martha Graham. Caleb Dowden has studied abroad in Benin, West Africa and Taipei, Taiwan.
Caleb Dowden has received a Fulbright Award in the Creative and Performing Arts to conduct research in Benin, West Africa for the 2021-2022 academic year from the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. She will journey back to Benin to reclaim African history that has been lost to slavery. Her overall aspiration as an artist is to create a dance company whose work is a physical embodiment of her ancestry. By reclaiming through movement, a history lost to slavery, she hopes to use her research as a foundation for creating choreography that educates youth of their history through dance and makes the work accessible to inner-city youth within low-income African American communities, as well as mainstream audiences. Caleb Dowden is a Thayer Fellowship/ Patricia Kerr Ross awardee, the 2021 Chancellor’s Award recipient for Student Excellence, 2021 Presidents Award for Achievement in Dance and the recipient of the 2021 Vice President of Student Affairs Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Quality of Student Life at SUNY Purchase |