About the Instructor:

Gregory King received his MFA in choreographic practice and theory from Southern Methodist University and has served as dance faculty for Texas Ballet Theatre and Boston Ballet, as well as visiting assistant professor of dance at Temple University, and Swarthmore College. He has performed with the Washington Ballet, Metropolitan Opera, and The Lion King on Broadway. Mr. King is a dance writer, whose response to the Dancing for Justice Philadelphia event was cited in the U. S. Department of Arts and Culture’s resource guide, “Art Became the Oxygen.” He served as director for the Decolonizing Dance Writing; International Exchange Project, bringing together artists from Peru, Columbia, Sri Lanka, New Zealand, and Ghana, to share their practice, and discourse about teaching and learning dance through a non-Western lens. He is currently an associate professor of dance at Kent State University, where he is a doctoral student and formerly the artistic director of the Kent Dance Ensemble.