“Highlighting our very human desire to passively observe the grotesque.”
“With humor and deeper thought-provoking moments…Williamson speaks to broader experiences and concerns in our current political climate.”
-Rachel Turner, LA Dance Chronicle
KEVIN WILLIAMSON is a Lester Horton Award recipient, Bates Educators Fellow, and Center Theatre Group Sherwood Finalist, He serves as Chair of Dance at Scripps College where he is also a Professor. Premieres include venues DanspaceProject, REDCAT, Dixon Place, CounterPulse, LACMA, OUTsider Fest, Breaking Ground, RADfest, Odyssey Theater Ensemble. WIP at the Wende Museum, Minnesota Fringe, and the Beijing Dance Festival. Choreography for theater/opera includes Washington National Opera, Atlantic Theater Company, the Juilliard School, Geffen Playhouse, Yale Theater, and Opera UCLA. Williamson was a dancing member of David Roussève REALITY, Oni Dance, LA Contemporary Dance Company, and Robert Moses' Kin and guest for David Gordon’s PickUpPerformance, Angelin Preljocaj and Julie Taymor at the LA Opera, a soloist in Bernstein’s MASS for the LA Philharmonic and Lincoln Center and has danced in works by Ryan Heffington, Cheng-chieh Yu, Victoria Marks, Heidi Duckler, Keith Johnson, and many more. He received his MFA in Choreography from UCLA’s Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance and is a certified Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analyst, yoga instructor and somatic dance educator.
photo: Ken Gonzales-Day
