The Ailey School

André M. Zachery is a Brooklyn-based artist from Chicago, IL. He received his BFA with honors from the Ailey/Fordham Program in 2005, and earned an MFA in Performance & Interactive Media Arts from Brooklyn College in 2014. He has performed with Elisa Monte Dance Company, Miller-Rothlein (MIRO), Nathan Trice/RITUALS, CeDeCe (Portugal), Compagnie THOR (Belgium), Irish Modern Dance Theatre (Ireland), and the National Tour of AIDA. He is the co-founder/Artistic Director of Renegade Performance Group. Through RPG, he has presented work throughout NYC, Florida A & M University, Florida State University, LIFT (Atlanta), The Ruth Page Theater and DuSable Museum (Chicago); and internationally as part of the Cistermusíca Festival 2012 in Portugal. His works have also received favorable reviews from Jennifer Dunning (New York Times) and Walter Rutledge (Harlem World Press). As an interdisciplinary collaborator, he has led classes and workshops throughout the country and around the world in Mexico City, Brussels, Belgium, and Edinburgh, Scotland. His interests in collaboration, using and making sound, visuals, and the body in projects rest in the desire to push art and performance across boundaries and re-imagine notions of culture, identity, and value.