Casey Avaunt is a contemporary dance maker committed to creating innovative choreography projects. Rooted in collaboration and interdisciplinary inquiry, Avaunt’s choreography often brings together performers with varied movement histories, emphasizing difference, negotiation, and the productive friction that emerges from unlikely pairings.

 

Her choreography has been presented nationally and internationally at venues and festivals including the Sheung Wan Civic Centre (Hong Kong), National Experimental Theater (Taiwan), Meridian Gallery (San Francisco), the 21st Major Network Cities Asia Festival (Bangkok), the Jakarta International Performing Arts Festival, the Boston Contemporary Dance Festival, the Dance Bridges Festival (Kolkata), The Untitled Space (Shanghai), and Flatlands Dance Theatre’s Solo Series (Lubbock, TX). Her work has been supported by Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture, the National Culture and Arts Foundation of Taiwan, the Chin-Lin Foundation for Culture and Arts, Colorado Dance Theater, the Culver Center of the Arts ARTSblock Foundation, and Hamilton College.

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Recently, Avaunt’s works have been presented at the Dance Bridges Festival in Kolkata, India; The Untitled Space in Shanghai, China; the Boston Contemporary Dance Festival; and in the Solo Series for Flatlands Dance Theatre in Lubbock, Texas. From 2022 to 2023, she was an artist-in-residence at the North Carolina Dance Project and was selected for the North Carolina Tobacco Road Dance Production’s In Concert Series in 2024.​

 

Alongside her creative practice, she is an Assistant Professor of Dance and Movement Studies at Hamilton College, where she teaches technique, composition, dance history, and theory.

 

Casey holds a PhD in Critical Dance Studies, an MFA in Choreography, and an MA in Southeast Asian Studies. Across performance, pedagogy, and research, her work reflects a sustained commitment to rigor, experimentation, and the human dimensions of movement.