Dance Lecture | Demonstration with Hilary Clark

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Hilary Clark is a dancer, teacher and choreographer, who performs in pivotal experimental dance and theater based work that tours nationally and internationally. She received the Silver Star Alumni Award (2012) from University of the Arts for “her bold and fierce commitment to experimental and unknown territories within performance [that] shakes loose the grasp of a history and allows for the necessary emergence of curiosity and openness.” Clark was honored with a New York Dance and Performance Award (2008) for sustained achievement most notably with Tere O’Connor, luciana achugar, and Fiona Marcotty “as a fearless and magnanimous performer, whose gorgeous, astute, take no prisoners interpretation of experimental work enlivens the evolution of the form itself.” She has also worked with Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People, Young Jean Lee Theater Company, Luke George, Jen Rosenblit, Jon Kinzel, Chemecki and Lerner, Larissa Velez Jackson, Keyon Gaskin and Gerard and Kelly.

As a 2015 Artist in Residence at collective address (NYC), she explored the role and work of the dancer through dialogues and interviews as well as developing Duet for/with/including Jen (1 - 4). Other creative residencies include Fresh Tracks and Studio Series (Dance Theater Workshop), and Dance and Process (The Kitchen). Her work has been shown at Roulette, Aunts, Danspace Project, The Kitchen, Dixon Place, Mt. Tremper Arts, Dance Theater Workshop, and Painted Bride in Philadelphia. In 2013, she was invited by Stockholm University of the Arts, University of Dance and Circus (DOCH) in Stockholm, Sweden, to participate in the academic conference “Dancer as Agent.” Her work as a performer and choreographer is documented in Jenn Joy’s book The Choreographic (MIT, 2014). Clark has taught at Governor's Institute of the Arts, Chunky Move (Australia), Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Pacific NorthWest College of Art (Oregon), Seattle Festival for Dance Improvisation at Velocity Dance Center (Seattle, WA) and Movement Research (NYC). She is the owner of Citrine Pilates & Wellness and is currently a teaching fellow and MFA candidate at Bennington College.