梅根威廉姆斯

BFA，Julliard学校。MFA，莎拉劳伦斯学院。An independent dance artist, choreographer, teacher and repetiteur, Williams guest-taught in a variety of settings in 2020-21, choreographed two films for the Young People’s Chorus of New York City, and made two commissioned dance films for the Katonah (NY) Museum of Art, where she recently premiered a new site-adaptive work, “Beauty Persists.” Her choreography has been produced by 92nd St Y, DanceNOW NYC at Joe’s Pub and Dance Theater Workshop, 10Hairy Legs, as well as by the Rivertown Artist’s Workshop, Barnspace, MIXT Co., Purchase College, Marymount Manhattan College, Connecticut College, and Interlochen Arts Academy. In addition to performing her own work, Williams was recently dancing with choreographer Rebecca Stenn and in Netta Yurashalmy’s Paramodernities project. In the early ’80s, Williams performed and toured internationally with the companies of Laura Glenn, Ohad Naharin, and Mark Haim; and in 1988, she joined the Mark Morris Dance Group—dancing for 10 years, touring worldwide, teaching, and appearing in several films, including摔倒楼梯（与yoyo ma），和谐的隐藏灵魂那坚硬的坚果， 和Dido和Aeneas.。她继续与莫里斯作为嘉宾表演者的关系（在莫里斯2009年创造夫人Capulet的角色罗密欧和朱丽叶：莎士比亚的主题），Guest Rehearsal Director，以及MMDG档案中的内容专家。威廉姆斯在购买舞蹈公司，Vassar Repertory Company，Fieldston Dance Company，Boston Ballet和匹兹堡芭蕾舞区以及Juilliard School，LesétésdaAdanse（巴黎）中的学生们已经上演了莫里斯舞厅很多其他的。威廉姆斯是莫里斯的助手，包括各种设置，包括芭蕾舞，百老汇和电视。从2000 - 2013年，她曾在购买大学舞蹈学院的现代舞蹈学院，是2016 - 2018年康涅狄格大学的康涅狄格大学讲师，2018 - 2019年亨特学院和Marymount Manhattan学院。她从2011年以来，在纽约州黑麦的帕金森病的舞蹈教授舞蹈，并正在寻求PD旗舰教学团队的着名舞蹈。她在过去的四年里教授吉布尼舞蹈中心的专业水平芭蕾舞中心，目前正在萨拉劳伦斯学院的芭蕾舞，并在购买学院和Tovami Studio的瑜伽躯体实践。Williams founded Megan Williams Dance Projects (MWDP) in the summer of 2016. MWDP was a DANCE NOW Commissioned Artist in 2018, premiering Williams’s first full evening work, “One Woman Show,” to great acclaim at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater in NYC. In September 2018, MWDP performed a work-in-progress at the 92nd St Y Fridays at Noon series in a shared bill with Molissa Fenley and Claire Porter. MWDP performed an encore of “One Woman Show” in January 2019 at Joe’s Pub and took it on the road in April 2019. MWDP was part of the Dance Off the Grid series at the Emelin Theater in Mamaroneck, NY, in May 2019. Williams was an Artistic Partnership Initiative (API) Fellow at The Center for Ballet and the Arts at New York University in August/September 2019. MWDP’s evening-length work, in collaboration with composer Eve Beglarian at Danspace Project, NYC, was scheduled for a March 2020 debut but is being rescheduled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. SLC, 2019–