Coco Karol

Coco Karol is a dancer/ choreographer who creates cross-disciplinary performance works concerned with meaning-making and embodied memory. She uses dance as a form of ethnography, and developed a methodology to interview people while moving with them. She has had an expansive dance career in New York, dancing for Misnomer Dance Theater, Cherylyn Lavagnino Dance Company, and Christopher Williams, as well as being a part of projects by Bill Young, Jose Navas, and Steven Petronio. She has choreographed works for stage, film, theater, and public space and has collaborated with notable visual artists and musicians, getting to work with artists such as Bjork, Amanda Palmer, Steven Sebring, Zoe Keating, C. Finley, SWOON, Sxip Shirey and others. Her own works have been shown at the Sydney Opera House, NYU Abu Dhabi Arts Center, Carnegie Hall, Symphony Space, National Sawdust, BAX, Ibeam, Spectrum, D.U.M.B.O Under the Bridge Arts Festival, Triskelion, Galapagos, Death By Audio, and curated by AUNTS. Karol teaches embodied-inquiry movement practices, technique classes in contemporary dance forms, and MUNZ® FLOOR, a somatic spinal health method.