RAHILA COATS

COMPANY MEMBER SINCE 2022

Rahila Naomi Stadem Coats is an improviser, choreographer, instructor, and teaching artist. She has performed new works and repertoire by Abigail Sena Atugah, Kofi Anthonio, Judith Brin Ingber, Karen Charles, Marciano Dos Silva Santos, Carl Flink, Kevin Iega Jeff, Michel Kouakou, Ohad Naharin, Andrea Miller, Robert Moses, Leslie Parker, Jeffrey Peterson, Uri Sands, Chris Schlicting, Gabby Abram, Erin Kilmurray, Anna Martine Whitehead, and Tali Wertheim- Agranionik within and outside the dance community in the United States. Her works have been shown through the support of Twenty Percent Productions, 2018 Jerusalem Jazz Festival, MN Fringe Festival, Company Projects, Synapse Arts, and University of Ghana- Legon. Currently she performs with the music group Family Junket and works in CONDUIT alongside Gina Hoch-Stall and Ann Marie Iego. In 2021, She received Chicago’s 3Art’s Make A Wave Award along with 120 other artists. She holds gratitude for her family that has brought her to Chicago and celebrates the community she learns and loves from in the city. Rahila is excited to begin her second season with the company.