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Guest Artist

 

Meg Wolfe is a Los Angeles-based choreographer/performer. Her work has been presented at REDCAT/New Original Works Festival, Highways Performance Space, the Commuter Festival/CalArts, Sea and Space Explorations, the Unknown Theater, Anatomy Riot, Sushi Performance, and other venues.

Active in New York City from 1990-2004, Wolfe’s work was presented at venues such as Danspace Project, Dance Theater Workshop/Fresh Tracks, Dia Center for the Arts, The Kitchen, Movement Research.  She appeared as a performer in the works of Vicky Shick, Yoshiko Chuma, Molissa Fenley, and Susan Rethorst, among others.

Her projects have been supported by grants from the Durfee Foundation; Danspace Project Commissioning Initiative; and Meet the Composer Fund; as well as by residencies at Djerassi Resident Artist’s Program (2009, 2007, 2005), and the Hothouse Residency program at UCLA (2007, 2010).

Wolfe has taught as a guest artist at UCLA’s World Arts & Cultures program, CalArts, Scripps College, SUNY Purchase, and Hunter College; and internationally at Turku Polytechnic (Finland); Compagnie Christiane Blaise (France); Complexe Meduse (Quebec City); Tangente (Montreal); and Festival Alas de la Danza (Ecuador).

Wolfe is the director of Show Box LA, a non-profit organization supporting the work of contemporary dance artists in Los Angeles through various initiatives: she is the founder and curator of Anatomy Riot, a low-tech monthly series for dance/performance works; co-editor of the L.A. dance journal, itch; and the founder and director of DANCEbank classes.  Additionally, she is the Project Coordinator for CHIME (Choreographers in Mentorship Exchange) in Southern California.