About Meredith
Chicago, IL
Meredith Dincolo is a dancer, teacher, and professional coach based in Chicago, Illinois. Her performance career of over 20 years includes Lyon Opera Ballet, Nationaltheater Mannheim, and 14 seasons with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. More recently, Meredith performed with Robyn Mineko Williams and Artists in the premiere of Echo Mine, a full evening collaboration with the band Califone. Ms. Dincolo has been teaching professionally since 2009, working with dance companies in the US and abroad. She also stages the work of Alejandro Cerrudo, and develops her own choreography in exploration of dance as an embodied archive. In 2023, Meredith began collaborating with historian Tara Zahra through a fellowship with the Gray Center for Arts Inquiry, exploring the intersection of dance and history—an evolving partnership that continues with her residency as a Fellow at The Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU.
Dance as History is a collaborative project (with Tara Zahra) that probes the relationship between dance and history, with the goal of producing new ideas, creative, and scholarly work in the form of movement, writing, and pedagogy. Dincolo and Zahra are particularly interested in how dance embodies the methodological and creative challenges of producing history, including issues of memory; selective and unreliable sources and archives; and competing perspectives and narratives. In the studio, seminars, and writing, we pose questions about how movement has embodied individual, family, and collective histories in the 20th and 21st centuries.
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