Fana Fraser is an artist, director, and producer. Her performance work gravitates to expressions of power, eroticism and compassion. 

Most recently, Fana was on faculty at Harvard TDM as a Visiting Lecturer in Dance for Fall 2024. Her short film, nesting, commissioned by TBA21-Academy in 2023, has been screened at UN World Oceans Conferences in Nice, France (2025) and Costa Rica (2024) and is an official selection for the 2025 Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival.

Fana has been an artist in residence at Djerassi Resident Artists Program, The Watermill Center, BAM Fisher Studio, Movement Research, Abrons Arts Center, MANCC Forward Dialogues, Petronio Residency Center, New Waves! Dance & Performance Institute in Trinidad & Tobago, and other spaces.

Her performance work has been presented at several venues including: New York Botanical Garden, Brooklyn Museum, Black Aesthetics at the Judson Church, BAAD!, Gibney, Dance Mission Theater in San Francisco and Trinidad Theatre Workshop. Her work has received support from the Jerome Foundation, NYSCA, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and the Van Lier Fellowship.

As an educator, Fana has taught workshops in the MFA Dance Program at Sarah Lawrence and during 2020-2022 they taught as an adjunct associate professor at University of the Arts in Philadelphia. At NYU Tisch and Adelphi University she has led workshops in BFA Dance Programs. She served as Rehearsal Director for Ailey II from 2016-20, maintaining dance repertory of over 25 works and preparing dancers for tour performances around the world in countries including: France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Andorra, Poland, The Bahamas, and the throughout US.

Fana was shortlisted for the 2020 BCLF Elizabeth Nunez Caribbean-American Writer’s Prize.

As a dancer and collaborator, Fana originated roles and toured internationally with the award-winning Camille A. Brown & Dancers and Ailey II. Fana has also done performance work with Sidra Bell Dance New York, The Metropolitan Opera, Bard SummerScape Opera, Samita Sinha’s ‘Infinity Folds’, Nia O. Witherspoon’s ‘Priestess of Twerk’, Andrea Miller for Hermès, The Francesca Harper Project, Raja Feather Kelly and the Feath3r theory, Miriam Simun, Jonathan González, Roya Carreras, Ryan McNamara, and many others. Fana has performed at several international venues including: the Brouhaha Liverpool International Street Festival, Greenwich + Docklands International Festival, Holland Dance Festival, Celebrate Brooklyn! The Joyce Theater, New York City Center, Performa 13, The Guggenheim Museum, Frieze New York, The National Arts Club, The New Jersey Symphony, REDCAT, The Los Angeles Music Center, The Banff Centre, The ICA Boston, and several additional locations. She has also been featured on commercials for Google Wallet and Twitter.

A certified Gyrotonic® Instructor, she has extensive experience in Yoga, Pilates, Alexander Technique and Somatic Experiencing®. Fana is also a full spectrum doula trained with Ancient Song Doula Services.

Fana began dance training at Caribbean School of Dancing and Metamorphosis Dance Company in Trinidad & Tobago and she is a Trinidad & Tobago National Scholar.