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Updated 3/23/2024

Meredith Bove

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    MA

Institution/Business Type: Artist / Creative (Individual)

Meredith Bove is a dancer and dramaturg based in western Massachusetts. Her practices move between and across performance, writing, dance, and audio. Through each of these mediums, she is devoted to engaging the tensions between language and embodied experience. She approaches her work in writing, performance, and dramaturgy as possible sites for the excavation of embodied archives, the destabilization of hierarchies, and for the cultivation of increased care, interdependence, and creative kinship.

Meredith has taught dance & performance studies at Hollins University (2011-2012 & 2016), Montgomery College (2014-2016), Springfield College (2016), Keene State College (2017-2020), Smith College (2021-2022), and most recently as Visiting Artist in Dance at Mount Holyoke College (2022-2024) where she leads seminars on dance writing, dramaturgy, and queer & feminist performance. She has collaborated as a dramaturg with choreographers Barbie Diewald, Rebecca Pappas, and Lailye Weidman, and has performed in the work of Jérôme Bel, Luis Lara Malvacías, Sharon Mansur, Stephanie Miracle, Jillian Peña, Sara Smith, and Karinne Keithley Syers.

Her writing on performance has been published inThINKingDANCE, Culturebot, and Contact Quarterly; forThe Making Room (2018), a collaboration between choreographers Bebe Miller and Susan Rethorst; and by Keene State College's Redfern Arts Center for Reggie Wilson's POWER (2021). She was Associate Editor for Contact Quarterly between 2018-2020, and continues to be influenced by the publication's legacy and commitment to the articulation of the unfolding experience of embodiment.

Currently she is Program Coordinator and "unofficial dramaturg" at A.P.E. in Northampton, Massachusetts where she collaborates with co-directors Kathy Couch and Mollye Maxner to steward a number of programs, including Making Ground and the newly formed Workroom Cooperative.  

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Meredith Bove (she, her, hers)
Job Title: Dancer/Choreographer/Performing Artist/Writer/Curator
Address:
Northampton, MA 01060

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About

Overview

Institution/Business Type:

Artist / Creative (Individual)

Legal Status:

Commercial / For profit - Sole proprietorship

Overview

Institution/Business Type:

Artist / Creative (Individual)

Legal Status:

Commercial / For profit - Sole proprietorship

Disciplines

Primary Discipline:

Dance - General

Additional Disciplines:

  • Dance - Modern / Contemporary

Activities and Services

Activities and Services:

  • Artist Representation / Artist Management
  • Arts Criticism / Journalism
  • Arts Instruction / Lessons
  • Community Arts
  • Creation of a Work of Art (Including Commissions)
  • Curriculum Development
  • Exhibitions
  • Performance / Concert / Reading
  • Public Art Projects (In Free, Public Spaces)
  • Publishing
  • Writing Services
  • Workshops / Demonstrations / Master Class
Seasons Active: spring, summer, fall, winter
Events Per Year: 15

Communities

Populations Engaged:

  • Adults
  • Elders
  • Families
  • General Public
  • People with Disabilities
  • Teens

Geographic Reach:

  • International

Accessibility of Services

Accessibility of Services:

  • Access accommodations for people who use a wheelchair and have limited mobility

Media Gallery

I Have Worked With

Affiliations and Accomplishments

Awards

Awards:

  • New England Dance Fund Grantee/Alum Network
  • Artist in Residence - The School for Contemporary Dance and Thought (2017)
  • Dance Exchange Local Artist in Residence - Takoma Park, MD
  • Dance Place New Releases Choreographer’s Showcase - Washington, DC
  • E|MERGE Interdisciplinary Collaborative Residency - Plainfield, MA
  • MFA Fellowship, Hollins University - Roanoke, VA
  • ARPA Grant Recipient for Making Ground: Dialogues

Awards

Awards:

  • New England Dance Fund Grantee/Alum Network
  • Artist in Residence - The School for Contemporary Dance and Thought (2017)
  • Dance Exchange Local Artist in Residence - Takoma Park, MD
  • Dance Place New Releases Choreographer’s Showcase - Washington, DC
  • E|MERGE Interdisciplinary Collaborative Residency - Plainfield, MA
  • MFA Fellowship, Hollins University - Roanoke, VA
  • ARPA Grant Recipient for Making Ground: Dialogues

Education

Education:

  • M.F.A. in Dance - Hollins University - HU/ADF MFA Program in Dance
  • B.F.A. in Dance - The University of the Arts

Special Designations

Special Designations:

  • NEFA Grant Recipient

Designated Arts Community:

  • New England Cohort Member - New England Dance Fund Grantee/Alum Network
  • Massachusetts Cultural District Member - Paradise City Cultural District

Artist Info

Touring Artist

Technical Requirements:

  • Sound System
  • Floor suitable for dancing

Fee Range:

$400 - $12,000

Minimum Number of Performers:

1

Maximum Number of Performers:

5

Touring Artist

Technical Requirements:

  • Sound System
  • Floor suitable for dancing

Fee Range:

$400 - $12,000

Minimum Number of Performers:

1

Maximum Number of Performers:

5