Kevin Williamson

Kevin Williamson’s (he/him) dance-theater research is centered on queer belonging and world making. He is a Lester Horton Award recipient, Johnson Faculty Award recipient (research ‘16, teaching ‘20, and service ‘21), a Bates Educators Fellow, and Center Theatre Group Sherwood Award Finalist. Currently, he is touring “to get there from here”- a choreographic investigation on mapping memories that reflects on the allure and impossibility of destination through mixed media generated from auto-ethnographic research. The stitching together of panoramic videos, movement, and objects animates a tension of never quite arriving while being propelled forward. His recent collaboration with filmmaker Taso Papadakis, “Safe and Sound,” received a “Best Short Film” award from Madrid Arthouse Filmfest along with an “Excellence Award” by LGBTQ Unbordered International Film Festival. Performance and choreography works have been presented by DanspaceProject, REDCAT, Dixon Place, CounterPulse, LACMA, Austin’s OUTsider Festival, Minnesota Fringe, Diversionary Theater, Highways, and the Beijing Dance Festival. Choreography for theater and opera includes Washington National Opera, Atlantic Theater Company, the Juilliard School, Geffen Playhouse, Yale Theater, and Opera UCLA; and commissioned works for CSULB, LMU, and AMDA. Kevin was a dancing member of David Roussève REALITY, Maria Gillespie's Oni Dance, LA Contemporary Dance Company/Kate Hutter, and Robert Moses' Kin. He has performed for David Gordon’s PickUpPerformance, Angelin Preljocaj and Julie Taymor for LA Opera, as a soloist in Bernstein’s MASS for the LA Philharmonic and Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival and in works by Ryan Heffington, Cheng-chieh Yu, Victoria Marks, Heidi Duckler, Keith Johnson, and many more. He received his BA and MFA in Dance and Choreography from UCLA’s Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance and is a certified Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analyst and yoga instructor and somatic dance educator.