mdw
dance artist, educator, advocate
meet meghan
Meghan Durham Wall is a dance artist, educator, and advocate. She is passionate about the various forms of human expression, combining her experiences as a professional dance artist and a speech-language salutologist. Meghan’s creative research lies in healing-centered and equity-oriented methods of training the body toward performance, whether on the stage or in society at large. She advocates for access to dance across a spectrum of unexpected to professional dancing bodies. Meghan has enjoyed a fulfilling career as a professional dance performer, dancing on stages from New York City to Singapore and having her original choreography produced across the US. Meghan also has experience working in nonprofit early intervention, adult disability arts, creative aging, and mental health sectors. She currently serves as the chair of the dance program at Westminster University, having enjoyed faculty positions at The Ohio State University, Princeton University, Temple University, and the University of Utah.
Meghan lives, works, creates, plays, struggles, and learns on the ancestral, traditional, and unceded lands of the Ute, Goshute, and Shoshone peoples. She acknowledges that she unjustly benefits from the history of unpaid labor of enslaved people from Africa that shaped this country's economy and culture.
choreographer/performer
Meghan’s creative investigations explore the unexpected dancing body and representation of difference and individuality in the movement arts. She embeds interdisciplinary inquiry within dance choreography and performance, however the human body and experience remain at the foreground of her work. Meghan’s creative work as an independent choreographer and performer has been supported by the Philadelphia Foundation, the nEW Festival, Dance Advance’s artists’ exchange in Singapore (administered by the Pew Charitable Trust), the Greater Columbus Arts Council, the Painted Bride Art Center, and Salty Creative, dancenow / now NYC, among others. Her past Double/Take Project, performed with artistic partner Karl Rogers, explored legibility of different bodies through the duet form with commissions by renowned choreographers, including Susan Hadley, Stephen Koester, Bebe Miller, Lisa Race, and Mariko Yamada.