Phoebe Ballard is a movement artist based in Brooklyn, NY. A teaching artist at Dancewave and public schools throughout the five boroughs, she hustles between different writing, administration, dance-making, and teaching engagements in both NYC and NJ. Her work has been presented at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, WAXWorks at Triskelion Arts, Liberty Hall Dance Festival, and as part of Current: Take 3. At the center of her making and teaching practice is a deep-seated desire to be together, to make things messy, to not take ourselves too seriously. Phoebe graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with an inspiringly unique cohort, a strong belief in the power of movement, and her BFA in dance.

 

Phoebe has had the privilege of performing in the works of Charli Brissey, Elise Frost, Sara Hook, Linda Lehovec, Jennifer Monson, Kendra Portier, and Renee Wadleigh. She has been nourished by continuing collaborations with her colleagues, and has been empowered by the joy and gusto of the students she has had the opportunity to teach. Her choreographic practices have been founded in her love of improvisation and cemented in her proclivity for writing, a practice she believes has a physicality all its own.

 

Through language, she seeks to develop a new way of seeing and making dance: filling notebooks and blog pages with streams of consciousness writing, then editing, editing, editing. Her process with movement is much the same, consciously and consistently prioritizing dance as a way of being together, as a way of becoming more fully human.

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Future plans involve advocating fiercely for all of the above.