HubChat • October 10, 2024
Megan Mazarick
DanceVisions 2024-2025 Resident Artist
DANCEVISIONS
The Performance Garage provides the DanceVisions Resident Artist with mentorship, marketing, publicity, box office, and a $10,000 stipend. Included in their support is video documentation, photography, and light design for their three-performance season when they premiere their new residency choreography.
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Currently DanceVisions Residents are chosen by invitation only. At present only one resident per year is selected. A panel of nationally known local choreographers and directors review the applications in the summer and selections are made in the Fall. Most years the resident artist premieres their work in May over the course of three performances at the Performance Garage.
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DanceVisions began in 2017 with the aim of developing more seasoned work from the selected choreographers by having the time, space, and support for thoughtful and mentored creation.
Below are our selected artists and the work they created while in the DanceVisions program.
Megan Mazarick is a Philadelphia choreographer, performer, teacher, curator, and mom. She often works with imaginative physical scores to collage movement, theater, and text. Her choreography has been presented internationally (Singapore, Bulgaria, Egypt, Poland, Australia, Hungary, and Mexico) and throughout the USA. Her recent solo, old swan, won an Audience Award at the 2022 Gdansk Solo Dance Contest (Gdansk, Poland). She was also a resident artist for Gdansk Festival in 2024, creating a new solo under the mentorship of Polish choreographer Maciej Kuzminski. As an organizer she developed a free dance community class program for nEW Festival (a Philadelphia-based dance festival) for 4 years and was co-director of the festival from 2010-2012. In 2015, she co-produced By Chance Festival at Rawabet Theater in Cairo, Egypt. As a performer, she has worked with David Gordon, Susan Rethorst, Keith Thompson, Marianela Boan, Merian Soto, Anonymous Bodies, Black Box Dance Theater, and members of Lower Left. Megan has taught technique, improvisation, and composition classes at studios, festivals, and universities around the globe. She is an Assistant Professor at Rider University.
This project is supported by a grant from
the MAP Fund.