My performances engage both my background in formalist dance training and interest in current cultural criticism, particularly as it relates to women. I explore dance as a type of visual essay with choreography that considers how movement can express non-linear, relational narratives. Through the juxtaposition of virtuousic movement with distilled imagery, I aim to create a contemporary magical realism that reflects and re-imagines how the body makes memory and the present visible.

Dawn is currently an Artist-in-Residence at the University of Maryland College Park.
Her creative work has been presented by Danspace Project’s Out of Space at Bric Studio, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Body Blend at Dixon Place, Progressive Arts Network, Aunts, University Settlement, Ur’s former dance palace in Brooklyn, Mt. Tremper Arts, and the 2006 MFA Show at the Reynolds Industries Theater at the American Dance Festival. She has been a guest artist at Hollins University, and M.I.T. Other teaching includes The Ailey School, Dance New Amsterdam, the North Carolina School of the Arts, American Dance Festival’s Four Week School, as well as for the annual ADF Young Artist Tuition Scholarship audition tours. In addition to her own choreography, Dawn has performed in the work of Karinne Keithley, Regina Rocke, and Aynsley Vandenbroucke Movement Group. She has been a performing member with Theater et al, directed by Brian Rodgers at The Chocolate Factory in Long Island City. She appears in, as well as assisted Thomas Defrantz with a film for The New York Historical Society’s New York Divided exhibit. Additionally, Dawn presented her research on New York City’s Cabaret Laws at the 2006 annual Society for Dance History Scholars Conference in Banff Canada, and her article “The Right to Move” was published in the Movement Research Performance Journal. She holds an MFA from Hollins University/The American Dance Festival.

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