About

Lauren Linder (she-her) is an Iowa City-based choreographer, performer, and educator pursuing her MFA in Dance at the University of Iowa.

Lauren’s choreography mines the space between the dancing body and the writing body. Through attention to softness, syntax, play, and gesture, Lauren’s work problematizes hierarchies of movement and traces relational ambiguities. Lauren’s research interests encompass dance as a literacy practice, the discursive connections between dancing, writing, and femininity, and accessibility in dance spaces.

Prior to relocating to Iowa City, Lauren worked as a dancer, choreographer, and teacher in Seattle, Washington. There, Lauren had the pleasure to perform with The Three Yells, the Pat Graney Company, Alice Gosti, Petra Zanki, Alyza DelPan-Monley, Melinda Jean Meyers, the Baker-Tarpaga Dance Project, Anna Krupp, and Adriana Hernández. In Iowa City, Linder dances and collaborates with Stephanie Miracle, Sean Thomas Boyt, Brady Van Patten, and Sophia McLaughlin.

Lauren’s choreography has been presented at the Green House (Iowa City), Space Place Theater (Iowa City), Voxman Music Building (Iowa City), Erickson Theater (Seattle), the Iron Factory (Philadelphia), RAD Dance Fest (Kalamazoo, MI), the Seattle International Dance Festival Spotlight Series, the Converge Dance Festival (Seattle), the Inlay Dance Festival (Seattle), the Seattle International Dance Festival through Sanity Café, Ktisk Contemporary Dance through Access Velocity (Seattle), and On the Boards Open Studio (Seattle). Her work The Beginnings of an Emergent Truth About Whipped Cream received a 2017 Dance Crush Award from Seattle Dances. You can read Linder’s Dance Crush Spotlight HERE. In June 2018, Lauren curated and co-produced an evening length duet show with choreographer, Sean Thomas Boyt.

Lauren holds an MA in Multilingual Education, a B.F.A. in Dance and a B.A. in Spanish from the University of Iowa. Currently, Lauren is a dance teaching artist with the UI Youth Ballet and the Director of Combined Efforts Dance, a dance company that facilitates purposeful collaboration between artists with and without intellectual disabilities.