About Me.
Irishia E. Hubbard
MFA Candidate at the University of Utah
Irishia Hubbard is a choreographer, filmmaker and educator from South Carolina. Irishia is the inaugural recipient of the Donald McKayle Legacy scholarship and was recently awarded the 2022 Hicks Choreographer Fellowship from the School of Jacob's Pillow, where she received mentorship from Dianne McIntyre and Risa Steinberg. Irishia holds a B.F.A. in Dance Choreography and a B.A. in Educational Sciences from the University of California, Irvine. She has worked with renowned choreographers, including Donald McKayle, Ephrat Asherie, Dr. Ama S. Wray, Tong Wang, Idan Cohen, and Greg Chapkis.While completing her undergraduate studies she was a member of Donald McKayle's Etude Ensemble, where she performed many of his works including Rainbow Round My Shoulder, Bitter Sweet Farewell, House of Tears, Songs of the Disinherited, Ancestral Flight, Uprooted Pero Replantado, Syncopated Gamble, and Levee Blues. As a filmmaker, Irishia’s work explores themes of visibility, ancestral veneration, and black liberation. She has studied under screendance artists Katrina McPherson, Cara Hagan, Kelly Hargraves, Robin Gee, Ben Estabrook, Chad Michael Hall and Charlotte Griffin; and is currently pursuing a Graduate Screendance Certificate at the University of Utah. Irishia’s films have premiered nationally and internationally in festivals such as Dance Camera West, Cinevox, ADF Movie By Movers, Auro Apaar, Black Lives Rising, Mignolo International Screendance Festival, Muestra Movimiento Audiovisual, Dancecinema and Desassossego Short Dance Film Festival. Irishia film, Red Line, was one of six commissioned films selected for Dance Camera West's (DCW) 2022 Mentorship Program. Her film, Red Line, received an honorable mention at Desassossego Short Dance Film Festival and has since been screened in India, Spain, Mexico, California, Oregon, Washington D.C., and North Carolina. Irishia is currently an MFA candidate and Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Modern Dance program at the University of Utah. Her other roles include professional stager for the Donald McKayle Legacy, DCW board member and artistic director of The Hubbard Collective.
MFA Candidate at the University of Utah
Irishia Hubbard is a choreographer, filmmaker and educator from South Carolina. Irishia is the inaugural recipient of the Donald McKayle Legacy scholarship and was recently awarded the 2022 Hicks Choreographer Fellowship from the School of Jacob's Pillow, where she received mentorship from Dianne McIntyre and Risa Steinberg. Irishia holds a B.F.A. in Dance Choreography and a B.A. in Educational Sciences from the University of California, Irvine. She has worked with renowned choreographers, including Donald McKayle, Ephrat Asherie, Dr. Ama S. Wray, Tong Wang, Idan Cohen, and Greg Chapkis.While completing her undergraduate studies she was a member of Donald McKayle's Etude Ensemble, where she performed many of his works including Rainbow Round My Shoulder, Bitter Sweet Farewell, House of Tears, Songs of the Disinherited, Ancestral Flight, Uprooted Pero Replantado, Syncopated Gamble, and Levee Blues. As a filmmaker, Irishia’s work explores themes of visibility, ancestral veneration, and black liberation. She has studied under screendance artists Katrina McPherson, Cara Hagan, Kelly Hargraves, Robin Gee, Ben Estabrook, Chad Michael Hall and Charlotte Griffin; and is currently pursuing a Graduate Screendance Certificate at the University of Utah. Irishia’s films have premiered nationally and internationally in festivals such as Dance Camera West, Cinevox, ADF Movie By Movers, Auro Apaar, Black Lives Rising, Mignolo International Screendance Festival, Muestra Movimiento Audiovisual, Dancecinema and Desassossego Short Dance Film Festival. Irishia film, Red Line, was one of six commissioned films selected for Dance Camera West's (DCW) 2022 Mentorship Program. Her film, Red Line, received an honorable mention at Desassossego Short Dance Film Festival and has since been screened in India, Spain, Mexico, California, Oregon, Washington D.C., and North Carolina. Irishia is currently an MFA candidate and Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Modern Dance program at the University of Utah. Her other roles include professional stager for the Donald McKayle Legacy, DCW board member and artistic director of The Hubbard Collective.