Rebekah Hampton Barger discovered aerial dance in 2006 while working as a company member and choreographer with Perpetual Motion Dance in Oklahoma City, where she was also a guest performer and faculty instructor with the Oklahoma City Ballet. After relocating to Nashville in 2010, she founded FALL, Nashville’s first aerial and contemporary dance company.
With a multidisciplinary background ranging from ballet and aerial dance, to Capoeira, rhythmic gymnastics and training as a classical pianist, Rebekah’s work blends classical and contemporary dance with aerial fabric and invented structures to explore more dimensions of space and challenge dancers to experience gravity in new ways.
With almost 30 years teaching experience, Rebekah is widely sought after as an master instructor in ballet, contemporary, and aerial dance, where she is known for creating a learning environment that is encouraging yet challenging. Her students have gone on to perform on Broadway and dance with companies such as ABT, Joffrey Ballet, Oklahoma City Ballet, Axis, and San Francisco Ballet, among others.
Rebekah has been a guest choreographer for Nashville Ballet, created commissions for the Nashville Symphony and OZ Arts, had work featured in the Sideshow Fringe Festival, Barefoot Brigade Dance Festival, and Nashville Fashion Week, as well as in music videos for Humming House, Ryan Beaver, Kat Jones & The Prophets, Timbre, and Genuine Joy.