Zoe Rabinowitz

Zoe Rabinowitz (she/her) is Executive Director and a founding member of Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre based in Brooklyn, NY. Originally from Vermont, she graduated from the Walnut Hill School for the Arts before earning her BFA in dance from the Ailey/Fordham BFA program, with additional studies at De Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten (Netherlands). She has performed with artists including INSPIRIT: a dance company, JoAnna Mendl Shaw/Equus Projects, MBDance, The Movement Party, Nia Love/Blacksmith’s Daughter, Urban Bush Women, and Anne Zuerner. Her own work for stage and film has been presented throughout the US and abroad in Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Mexico, and South Korea. In recognition of her work as a leader in the nonprofit field, Rabinowitz was awarded a 2020 NYFA Emerging Leaders Fellowship and selected as a New York Community Trust Leadership Fellow in the same year.