About the Artist

Kalila Kingsford Smith builds interactive dance environments that are responsive to the characteristics of the performance space: whether a theater, a nature trail, a museum, a city street, or a Zoom call. Fundamentally, she believes that dance is healing and transformative and invites performers and audiences to investigate themselves as participants in the art-making process. Informed by her training in modern and contemporary dance, her movement flows between tension and release, momentum and suspension, improvisation and composition, and storytelling and abstraction. Her current improvisational practice invites participants to access their inner “creature, ” the parts of themselves that are pre-thinking, animalistic, and responsive.

Creative Consultant: Megan Quinn
Megan Quinn (she/they) is a dance artist, movement educator, and arts administrator based in Philadelphia. In a world that invites us to move past the signals of our body, Megan facilitates space to honor bodily wisdom. Taking a poetic and therapeutic approach to movement science and exploration, she builds curriculum for individuals and communities to explore what it means to be in embodied connection. Her training and certifications include an undergraduate degree in dance, a master’s degree in Transformative Leadership, Pilates teacher training, Franklin Method Educator certification, and women's circles facilitation training. She credits much of her knowing to lessons learned in devotion to friendship and community.

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This event is appropriate for ages 13+

Audience Interaction

Covid-19 Safety policy

This event does not require proof of vaccination to attend or masks to be worn