PaviElle French

PaviElle French is an Emmy Award-winning (2014), interdisciplinary artist/educator, who is from St. Paul, Minnesota. She is a recipient of the 2023 Mark Award for Social Justice/Impact Track of the Year, “Redemption,” is an American Composer Forum Artist in Residence (2022-24); a Jerome Hill Artist Fellow (2021-23); a McKnight Artist Fellow (2020); and a Sage Award for Dance and Choreography recipient (2016).
 
Featured works – A Requiem for Zula (2018), Sands of Time (2021), SOVEREIGN (2020); The SOVEREIGN Suite (2022). 
She was an Artist in Residence with The American Composer Forum (22-24); and released The SOVEREIGN Suite Video filmed by Peter Myers, and Soundtrack in December of 2023. 
 
PaviElle is finishing up both her ACF Residency (2022-24), and Jerome Artist Fellowship (2021-23). She is currently working with a stellar team of educators, toward a curriculum, based on her work through her SOVEREIGN Series. For more info, please check out: www.paviellefrench.com.