MEGAN LOWE DANCES

Megan Lowe (she/they) is a dancer, choreographer, performer, aerialist, singer-songwriter, filmmaker, teacher, and administrator of Chinese and Irish descent creating work in the San Francisco Bay Area, situated on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone land. With an affinity for dynamic places and partners, her creations through Megan Lowe Dances explore complex identities and experiences by tackling unusual physical situations and invent compelling solutions, opening up the imagination to what is possible. Her collaborations are centered in dynamic place-making, playful partner-work, daring aerial/vertical dance, and generative rigor. Megan is a recipient of 2 Izzie Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Performance, and her recent choreographies have been seen at ODC, Fort Mason, de Young, Legion of Honor, and 500 Capp Street, as well in San Francisco Aerial Arts Festival, United States of Asian America Festival, Center for Asian American Media Festival, SF Trolley Dances, and on KQED Live. She has performed with Flyaway Productions, Dance Brigade, Lenora Lee Dance, Scott Wells & Dancers, Lizz Roman & Dancers, Epiphany Productions, and more. Megan is a teaching artist for Joe Goode Performance Group, BANDALOOP, Flyaway, and her alma mater Theater, Dance, & Performance Studies at UC Berkeley, where she works as the Program Associate. She regularly teaches contact improvisation, vertical dance, site-specific dance, and contemporary dance for organizations, schools, universities, and dance festivals around the Bay Area and California, and has also taught in Singapore, Ireland, and Japan. Megan’s process thrives off of collaboration, prioritizing creating relationships of respect, generosity, and gratitude. She harnesses this culture of magnanimity as a teaching artist, and leads dance classes/workshops all over the Bay Area, for organizations, schools, universities, and dance festivals, serving movers of all different ages, experience levels, body types, races, cultures, and socio-economic statuses—building community and connection.

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With a movement aesthetic ranging from subtle to explosive, Megan has an affinity for dynamic/kinetic movement, site-specificity/space-interaction, aerial/vertical dance, and contact improvisation/partnering—always searching for something or someone to interact with. Singing is also a passion of hers, she enjoys integrating movement and sound, and she composes music for her own works. In addition, she finds love and comfort in athletic and daring movement, floor work, inversions, aerial dance, rock climbing (5.12d/V7 peak), Ultimate Frisbee, teaching, board game/video game playing, and kitty loving. Megan is always on the lookout for more performance, teaching, and administrative opportunities to continue growing in the field of performance arts and as a human being. Don't hesitate to Contact her if you are interested in working together!