Kimberleigh A Holman

Kimberleigh Holman is the Artistic Director of Luminarium Dance and an artist working interdisciplinarily in dance, theatre and design. Her work gravitates to the exploration of human social interaction and behavior, both real and fictitious, miniscule instances or broad patterns, through comedic, dark, sensory or abstract narrative. As a mover and maker, one of her biggest considerations is authenticity; she hopes to enable those performing her work to find genuine ways to be present in the performance space and hopes to inspire viewers to react in genuinely felt ways of their own.

Since co-founding Luminarium in 2010, Kimberleigh has shown work at venues including the Boston Center for the Arts, mobius, Mount Holyoke College, OBERON, Museum of Fine Arts, Gibney Dance (NYC), and more, including a commission to open TEDxCambridge at the Boston Opera House. Besides nearly 80 performances with Luminarium across New England, Kim has been invited to choreograph for commercials and film, dozens of theatrical productions across Boston, and to bring her work to stages ranging from public library basements, to the Museum of Fine Arts, to the globally renowned APAP conference in NYC. Kim is frequently hired as a guest artist at Boston-area universities, speaks on her career as an arts entrepreneur, and worked as Director of Programming at Green Street Studios. Holman has been awarded several grants for her community initiatives and artistic work with Luminarium, from agencies including the Boston and Massachusetts Cultural Councils, NEFA, and New England Grassroots Environmental Fund. Most recently she was awarded The Boston Foundation's LAB Fund grant, and is working on her multi-year work Contradictions + Casual Self Loathing. 

Outside of Luminarium Kim works as a freelance choreographer and lighting designer. Some favorite recent projects include collaborating on a performance piece by Adara Meyers (Boston Center for the Arts, 2018), creating a music video for the band Jaggery (screened in Bucharest), choreographing a national commercial for Care.com, and a research and performance project where Holman traveled up the Eastern Seaboard, performing in public locations in each of the fifteen East Coast states. Kim earned her MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts/Performance Creation from Goddard College. More at kaholman.com.