Selected Choreography and Performance:
Bibliomancy
An oracular performance created + performed by Michael J. Morris
Original soundscore by Moxy Martinez
Urban Arts Space, Columbus, OH
August 10-12, 2023
Witchdancing
Participatory movement ritual facilitated by Michael J. Morris
Original soundscore by Moxy Martinez
Presented as part of Fridays for the Future: Monthly Virtual Movement Gathering, hosted by Livable Futures and Flux + Flow Dance and Movement Center
February 5, 2021
Elemental Rites at the End of the World
Choreography, original text, and performance by Michael J. Morris
Presented as part of Art in the Anthropocene: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on Performance, Technology, and Ecology
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
October 25, 2019
The In-Between
Performance and collaborative devising
Director: Rashana Perks Smith
Columbus, OH
August 16-17, 2019
Histories of Witches
Lecture and Performance with Keith Hennessy
Ponderosa Arts Center, Stolzenhagen, Germany
June 17, 2019
Elemental Rites at the End of the World
Choreography, original text, and performance by Michael J. Morris
Southern Queer Magic, Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge, Baton Rouge, LA
Produced by LEUR
June 7, 2019
Elemental Rites at the End of the World
Choreography, original text, and performance by Michael J. Morris
Columbus Dance Alliance Works #2, Wexner Center for the Arts
March 1, 2019
In This Together: a durational performance installation
Choreography by Michael J. Morris with Náamah Leerdam, Maddie McKenney-Lydick, Wynn Patrick, and Lunamar Munoz Rodriguez
Images by Pamela Colman Smith from the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot
Text excerpts by Joy Harjo, bell hooks, Andrea Jenkins, Audre Lorde, Alexis Pauline Gumbs,
Music by Deborah van Dyke
Denison University, Granville, OH
November 8-10, 2018
Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again.
Written by Alice Birch
Choreography and Dramaturgy: Michael J. Morris
Director: Eleni Papaleonardos
Available Light Theatre, MadLab
Columbus, OH
January 11-27, 2018
SHE MOVE SHE
Choreography: Michael J. Morris
Performance: Maïlys Dagan, Emily Farrow, Leah Hansler, Jordann Kea, Briahna Lawson, Hayley LeBlanc, Fumika Miyamoto, Bridget Ryan
Recorded Text: Janet Mock at the Women’s March on Washington, January 21, 2017; Michelle Obama’s final speech as First Lady, January 6, 2017; Chelsea Handler on Netflix, recorded November 9, 2016; Hillary Clinton’s concession speech, November 9, 2016; Laverne Cox at Variety’s Power of Women event, October 20, 2016; bell hooks and Laverne Cox at The New School, October 7, 2014; Judith Butler at The First Supper Symposium, May 12, 2014; Angela Davis at the University of Chicago's Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, May 3, 2013; Audre Lorde at the March for Lesbian and Gay Rights Washington, D.C., October 14, 1979
Spoken Text: written by Michael J. Morris, with contributions from the performers
Denison University, Granville, OH
December 7-9, 2017
Belonging Here
Choreography for 11 performers
Performers: Chelsea Melitta Chen, Jenn Fajardo, Honore Lachenauer, Sarah Lopez, Lashonda Love, Madeline Montgomery, Garrett Stockdale, Alex Rivera, Yow Yong Tan, Handi Wang, Taylor Zick
Original text by Michael J. Morris, with contributions from the performers and quotations by Brené Brown, Kate Bornstein, and RuPaul
Livingston Gymnasium, Mitchell Center, Denison University, Granville, OH
April 17-18, 2017
40 Kisses (31 Kisses): Meeting Place/Stop Killing Us
Performance with 31 collaborators
Wild Goose Creative, Columbus, OH
April 7, 2017
40 Kisses, 7 Years: Earth Bodies Drawing Down the Moon in the Age of the [Anthropocene] Chthulucene
Choreography for five performers
Performers: Chelsea Chen, Tanvi Doshi, Briahna Lawson, Alex Rivera, Meghan Tenorio
Text: Anohni, Donna J. Haraway, Margot Adler, Starhawk
Denison University, Granville, OH
November 10-12, 2016
cuddle (2016)
Performance Art Day V.3
Wild Goose Creative, Columbus, OH
October 1, 2016
The 7 Deadly Sins Series: Sloth
A Foxx-Ayers & Diamond Dames Production | Temptation Burlesque
Bossy Grrl's Pinup Joint, Columbus, OH
September 9, 2016
CKA: Enough (2)
A production of CKA: Currently Known As
Performer/collaborator
Choreography and concept: CoCo Loupe and Mina Estrada, with contributions from Michael J. Morris and Rikki Willis
Music: Moxy Martinez and Noah Demland
Text: Michael J. Morris
Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge, Baton Rouge, LA
July 15, 2016
Torrence 6-36-86
Performer/collaborator
Directed by Rashana Perks Smith
Columbus, OH
May 27 and 28, 2016
Torrence 6-36-86 is an immersive, site-responsive dance theatre project wherein practitioners in different art disciplines collectively explore the meaning of Proximity (to others), Accessibility (of material), and Domesticity (within the social constructs of a private residence in a suburban Midwest neighborhood and through the retrospective eyes of a personified ninety-two year old hour).
Performers: John Giffin, Gina Jacobs Thomas, Michael J. Morris, Megan Yankee, Megan Davis, Eve Hermann, Sarah Shulman, Alexia Minton, Jeremy Griffin-Jackson, Coal Rietenbach, Ares Harder
Interactive Video Installation: Matt Lewis
Winder Installations: Melissa Vogley Woods
Lighting Design: Carolyn Cox
Sound Design: John Osburn
Graphic Design: Gabriel Caldwell
The 7 Deadly Sins Series: Lust
A Foxx-Ayers & Diamond Dames Production | Temptation Burlesque
Bossy Grrl's Pinup Joint, Columbus, OH
May 13, 2016
FROM HERE
Choreographer
Performance by Maree ReMalia
Work-in-progress showing: Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT, April 9, 2016
Premiere: Denison University, Granville, OH, April 23, 2016
becoming becoming becoming
Choreography for eleven performers
Performers: Ajai Brooks, Chelsea Chen, Tanvi Doshi, Emma Hatcher, Jeremy Hollis, Isabella Luaces, Graciella Maiolatesi, Fumika Miyamoto, Jiahao Ran, Meghan Tonorio, and Callie Towles
Music: Matthew Stone
Text: Juliana Huxtable
Denison University, Granville, OH
November 13-16, 2015
20 Rue Jacob
Performer/Guest Choreographer; Project Directors: Courtney Harris and Charli Brissey
Hoffheimer Building, Richmond, VA
May 22-23, 2015
FIERCE! International Queer Burlesque Festival 3
Featured Performer
Pittsburgh, PA
April 29-May 3, 2015
TOWARD BELONGING
Choreography for four performers
Performers: Phil Brown Dupont, Justin Fitch, Eve Hermann, Counterfeit Madison
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
April 29-30, 2015
You Can Be Plural and Maybe You Might
Choreographer/solo performer
LOVE, MAGIC at Feverhead
Columbus, OH
February 13, 2015
Death Drive/Obscene/On-Scene
Choreographer/solo performer
11 Tiny Performances, Iowa City, Iowa
November 13, 2014
I Can't See Why: An Homage to Loïe Fuller, Yvonne Rainer, and CoCo Loupe
Performance/solo choreography/video editing
Videography and movement material by CoCo Loupe
Premiered: FIERCE International Queer Burlesque Festival, Wall Street Night Club, May 4, 2013;
Re-staged: Willkommen to Crimson Lace Cabaret, Wall Street Night Club, September 6, 2014
Left of Canvas, a dance film by Charli Brissey and Courtney Harris (in post-production)
Performance/choreography
May 2014
Presented as a series of video installations as part of 20 Rue Jacob
Rite of Spring
Model
Fashion Editorial for Outlook Magazine (additional images)
Styling by Mitch McGuire; Photography by Clare Gatto
March 2014
Becoming Emma, Becoming Imperceptible
Choreography/solo performance
Premiere: Boylesque! produced by Viva Valezz! Burlesque Productions and the Short North Stage, the Garden Theater, June 21st, 2013;
Re-staged: The Velvet Follies, Wall Street Night Club, September 14, 2013;
Re-staged: the Burlypicks Ohio Regional Burlesque Festival, Wall Street Night Club, March 29, 2014
Re-staged: FIERCE! International Queer Burlesque Festival 3, Pittsburgh, PA, May 2, 2015
Principal Performer with Viva Valezz and the Velvet Hearts, Central Ohio’s Premiere Queer Burlesque Company
Monthly performances of solo and group works throughout Columbus, OH
2012-2014
Goodbye Gauley Mountain: An Ecosexual Love Story, documentary film by Elizabeth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle
Footage from Re-Membering the Mountains, performed at “Purple Wedding to the Appalachian Mountains,” Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, 2010
Adagio in Situ
Performer/model for Video/sculpture by Ric Petry
Hammond Harkins Galleries, presented in Naked exhibition
October 18-November 19, 2013
"May that we be inspired by the light," Cornering a Hare, MFA Thesis Project by Paige Phillips
Performance installation; concept by Paige Phillips with sculptural structure by Evan Dawson
Urban Arts Space, Columbus, OH
February 28-March 2, 2013
Horizontal Materiality: Judith Butler’s Lesbian Phallus, Donna Haraway’s Cyborg, and Beatriz Preciado’s Dildonics
Choreography for two dancers/performance
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
June 1, 2012
Prison Letter (videodance)
Choreography/solo performance/video editing; commissioned by Darren Patrick (York University) to be included in the Prison Notebook Project
2012
Portraiture & Perception: Second Hands and Square Feet, MFA Thesis Project by Fiona Lundie
Choreography/solo performance (commissioned)
Urban Arts Space, Columbus, OH
March 14-30, 2012
Autumn Quartet
Choreography/direction for four dancers (re-staging)
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
March 9 and 12, 2012
cuddle (2012)
Gallery installation performance piece in homage to “Cuddle” by the Love Art Laboratory (Annie M. Sprinkle and Elizabeth M. Stephens)
Presented at “STUPID CUPID > the ALT-Valentine’s Day Art Party," Feverhead, Columbus, OH
February 11, 2012
becoming
Choreography/solo performance
Presented as part of the Love Art Laboratory (Annie M. Sprinkle and Elizabeth M. Stephens) “White Wedding to the Sun: Pleasuring the Planetary Clitoris” in San Francisco, CA
December 18, 2011
TRAUMA!
Performance; Choreography by CoCo Loupe
The Bluestone, Columbus, OH
October 27 and November 4, 2011
… a couple of pennies
Performance; Choreography by Shawn Hove
Columbus Dance Theatre, Columbus, OH
April 15-16, 2011
Re-Membering the Mountains
Choreography/solo performance
Re-staged as part of the adjudicated “[IN]VISIBLE TRACES: The Department of Dance Winter Concert”
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
March 3-5, 2011
Marriage
Performance; Solo created with Mair Culbreth
Presented as part of “domestic matters: a performing installation,” Urban Arts Space, Columbus, OH, March 1-31, 2011
Re-staged at the “Meanings and Makings of Queer Dance” Congress on Research in Dance Special Topics Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan, February 16-18, 2012
ctrl+shift
Expert commentator; multi-media installation performance by CoCo Loupe, Robin Baidya, and Shawn Hove
Wild Goose Creative, Columbus, OH
January 7, 2011
Re-Membering the Mountains
Choreography/solo performance
Presented as part of the Love Art Laboratory (Annie M. Sprinkle and Elizabeth M. Stephens) “Purple Wedding to the Appalachian Mountains”
Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
November 6, 2010
Penetrating and Permeating
Performance; Choreography by Maree ReMalia
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
June 4, 2010
Cuddle (purple)
Gallery installation performance piece in homage to “Cuddle” by the Love Art Laboratory (Annie M. Sprinkle and Elizabeth M. Stephens)
Presented in “Breakups R Tough” exhibit
U.turn Arts Space, Cincinnati, OH
April 3, 2010
Autumn Quartet
Choreography for four dancers/performance
Dancers: Erik Abbott-Main, Eric Falck, Michael J. Morris, and Amanda Platt
The Ohio State University, Columbus OH
2009-2010
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Performer; Choreography by CoCo Loupe
Presented as part of Anthro(pop)ology II
Columbus Dance Theatre, Columbus, OH
November 13-15, 2009
"Strip" and "Improvisation," 60x60
Choreography/solo performance
Wall Street Night Club, Columbus, OH
Event sponsored by Vox Novus
October 3, 2009
Red Monster
Choreography/solo performance
Presented as part of “SIP”
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
May 15, 2009
no matter where you are, you are there (middle child)
Performance; Choreography by Shawn Hove
The Ritz Theatrer, Tiffin, OH
May 23, 2009
About
Choreography for seven dancers
Presented as part of the adjudicated Department of Dance Winter Concert
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
March 12-14, 2009
Monster Partitur (Choreographer/Director: William Forsythe)
Collaborated on a team of artists in constructing and installing installation
Presented at The Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
April 1-5, 2009
Passage
Choreography/solo performance
Presented in “I Will Never Recover from This Macaroon” exhibit
semantics gallery, Cincinnati, OH
October 18, 2008
Endless Reach
Choreography for two dancers, commissioned and performed by Krista Pieper and Valerie Nicholson
Presented as part of Community Dance Concert
Belhaven College, Jackson, MS
Summer 2007
Sketches of Shame
Choreography for two dancers/performance
Belhaven College, Jackson, MS
Spring 2007
Shades of the Edges Existence
Choreography for ten dancers/performance
Belhaven College, Jackson, MS
Spring 2007
Ode to Humanity: Of All That We Are Capable
Choreography/solo performance
Presented at the American College Dance Festival, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 2006
Restaged at the Louisiana Dance Festival, Baton Rouge, LA, 2006