Curt Haworth (he/him) Curt is an expatriate Californian, choreographer and improviser living and working on unceded Lenape land in South Philly. He received a BA in Creative Writing from UC Santa Cruz and an MFA in Dance from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and was a Professor at UARTs, where he taught from 2002-2024. Curt choreographed and danced in New York City for twenty years before moving to Philadelphia in 2009; and has an eclectic movement background ranging from Modern Dance and Contemporary Modern techniques to African Diasporic Dance, Yoga, Contact Improvisation, and Ballet. He performed with Race Dance, Yoshiko Chuma’s the School of Hard Knocks, the collaborative improvisation group Vitamin C, and toured internationally with David Dorfman Dance from 1990 to 2002, while creating 15 original roles. He was a Movement Research Artist in Residence in 2001-2002, and has taught regularly in NYC at Movement Research and DNA (formerly Dance Space Center, now Gibney Dance). He has taught and set work as a guest artist throughout the United States, Europe, South America and Asia, including 10 summers at the American Dance Festival (ADF) and 10 summers at the Tisch Summer Dance Residency. As a Philly based artist, he produces work with his pickup company and is currently designing evenings of spontaneous music and dance in collaboration with Loren Groenendaal and the revolving Free Fleet artist group. He is an Artist in Residence at the Mascher Space Cooperative. https://curthaworth.wixsite.com/movement

“Haworth opened engagingly, with a small personal triumph, his liquid body washing over the dance floor in handstands and leg extensions rarely seen in a male dancer.”
– Merilyn Jackson, The Inquirer

MOVEMENT AND PERFORMANCE, a project-based group directed by Curt Haworth, produces humanistic choreography. Using text, as both source material for content and as a vehicle to convey emotional experience, is central to its vision, but it is dedicated to formalism and the nuances of movement, time and space. It is a formalist approach rooted in athleticism, an athleticism mixed with sequential momentum and gesture. The work generates questions of how we present work in space and how the shared experience charges the atmosphere in performance hoping to give a visceral experience to the audience. Working in close collaboration with musicians, movers and visual artists, the work blurs the line of improvisation and choreography seeking to capture the ephemeral nature of both dance and life. This generates work that melds form and content, so that neither leads nor follows but points to the poetic junction of the literal and abstract. It is work that is in the world and of the world and reflects the phenomena of existence with the hope of a shared experience with the audience fuses the mundane and the transcendent.

Tammy Carrasco, Interim Director and Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance at Bryn Mawr College, is a dance artist and educator recently relocated to Philadelphia. She received an M.F.A. from Ohio State University and a B.F.A. from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and is an alum of the Walnut Hill School of the Arts. Her professional work has been presented by the Boston Contemporary Dance Festival, Dixon Place, Dumbo Dance Festival, Houston Ballet’s Frame x Frame Film Festival, Movement Research at Judson Church, and Triskelion Arts, among others. In academic settings, her work has been featured in the American College Dance Association’s Gala and National showcases. She has taught and staged work as a guest artist nationally and internationally and served as a full-time faculty member for SUNY Brockport’s Dance Department. Outside of teaching, Carrasco imagines, creates, and clears space for possibility. She makes dances and fosters collaborations under the umbrella of Wild Beast Dance and is co-organizer of The Landingspace Project, a virtual maker’s space created for and by artists during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Carrasco’s work has been presented by Boston Contemporary Dance Festival, Dumbo Dance Festival, Movement Research at Judson Church in collaboration with Ann Sofie Clemmensen, Dixon Place, Jennifer Mueller/The Works, Triskelion Philadelphia Fringe Festival, and Philadelphia’s Performance Garage, among others. Tammy was in the first round of awardees for the New York State DanceForce Western NY Choreographers’ Initiative sponsored by New York Council on the Arts, which supported a long-term creative process for now dance film, “Desert Picnic.” Her work has also been supported by Bryn Mawr College, Greater Columbus Arts Council, The College at Brockport, SUNY, and The Ohio State University. Her current projects are multidisciplinary collaborations in which dance, visual art, film, text, and design merge for presentation in traditional and alternative artistic spaces.