Barbara Tait is a long, tall Texan, dance artist, poet (under the name Charlie Bennett), and pseudo-librarian who relocated to Philadelphia in 2009 after graduating from the University of North Carolina Greensboro with a B.A. in Dance and minors in English and Psychology.
As an art-maker, she is interested in exploring the questions: what role does dance have in community development and cultural construction? how can dance help create empathy? and, what is the informational value of movement? She thinks all movement has communicative value, and this belief has led her to pursue collaborations with dancers and non-dancers alike.
Her community-based projects include co-organizing Philadelphia Rising, a call to end violence against women, with Saroya Corbett, Colleen Hooper, and Katherine Kiefer Stark, and making a video performance piece on patrons of the Free Library Hot Spot at Heavenly Hall in collaboration with Colleen Hooper.
She has studied movement techniques with B.J. Sullivan, Gerri Houlihan, John Gamble, and many fabulous others, and has performed in North Carolina, New York, and Pennsylvania with The Naked Stark, John Gamble Dance Theater, Nick Cave, Mereminne Dancers and Vervet Dance. In addition to her work as a dance artist, Barbara is a Digital Resource Specialist at the Free Library of Philadelphia and an Archives Associate for the Local Dance History Project at Philadelphia Dance Projects. She recently graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with her Masters in Library and Information Science.
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