Letty Bassart

Letty Bassart

M.F.A. in Dance

Letty Bassart’s work is driven by a reverence for human experience and obsession for the telling details. With an avid mind, her artistic process strives to meld questions of ephemerality and grit.

Her choreography has been commissioned by Miami Light Project, the Adrienne Arsht Center, the City of Miami Beach, and Broward Community College, and has been shown throughout South Florida and at Dance Theater Workshop (now NY Live Arts) in NY. She is a four-time recipient of the Miami-Dade Choreographer Fellowship (2008, 2010, 2011, 2012), a National Endowment for the Arts dance writing fellowship, Artist Access grant, and was the inaugural artist for the Movement Research Exchange between Tigertail Productions and Movement Research.

Her collaborators have included: dance/theater artists, Ilana Reynolds, Shaneeka Harrell, and Grettel Trujillo; image makers, Lydia-Bittner-Baird and Carmen Cothern; and musicians, Gema Corredera and Daniel Bernard Roumain.

In 2011, she founded Thought Loom, an artist-run nonprofit dedicated to giving traction to dance ideas. Through Thought Loom, she launched multiple individual artist projects and interdisciplinary arts partnerships, including the New World Symphony, O, Miami Poetry Festival, Miami Light Project, and Bas Fisher International. Thought Loom’s work was recognized through the Knight Foundation’s Arts Challenge.

She has held several posts in arts leadership.