b.1980

Megan Mazarick is choreographer, teacher, performer, collaborator, and curator of Contemporary Dance.  She received both her BFA (University of North Carolina at Greensboro) and MFA (Temple University) in dance.  As a choreographer, she makes work that is humorous, political, theatrical, and personal, often including text, improvisation, and love of fantasy.  Her choreography has been presented most frequently in Philadelphia (Live Arts Festival, nEW Festival, Philadelphia Dance Projects, PARD, Cannonball Festival, etc.) and New York City (Movement Research at Judson Church, Triskelion Arts, Dance New Amsterdam). She has toured throughout the USA (San Francisco, Minneapolis, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Texas, Maine, North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia) as part of various dance festivals and events.  She has also shown work internationally at Atlas Festival’s Raw Materials Improvised Performance Series (Guanajuato, Mexico), Budapest’s Trafo Theatre, Bulgaria's BlackBox Theater and Dance Festival, Singapore Fringe Festival,  Zawirowania International Choreography Competition (Warsaw, Poland), Zielony Jazdow Festival (Warsaw, Poland), Gdansk Solo Dance Festival (Gdansk, Poland), By Chance Festival (Cairo, Egypt), and Contemporary Dance Night (Cairo and Alexandria, Egypt).  As a performer she has worked with Susan Rethorst, Keith Thompson, Marianela Boan, Merian Soto, North Carolina’s Blackbox Dance Theatre, and Anonymous Bodies.  She has taught at multiple universities and is an Assistant Professor and Chair of Dance Department at Georgian Court University.