Phoebe Legere

Phoebe Legere is an Acadian-Abenaki performance artist, author, transgenre multi-instrumentalist, artist, and community organizer. She is a Juilliard-trained composer who underlines her philosophical and social message with music, text, movement, image, and dance. Legere began her career as Resident Composer at the Wooster Group where she learned acting, movement, speech, improvisation and experimental, immersive theater with Willem Defoe, Richard Schecner, Victor Turner, Ron Vawter and Spalding Grey. Phoebe Legere has had numerous academic appointments including Resident Artist at the School of Visual Arts where, in 2003, she invented a musical instrument, the Sneakers of Samothrace, a wearable computer for disabled children.