mdw
dance artist, educator, advocate, scholar
meet meghan
Meghan Durham Wall is a dance artist, educator, advocate, and scholar. She is passionate about the various forms of human expression, Meghan’s creative research focuses on “the unexpected dancing body,” advocating for underrepresented bodies in the field. She also has experience working in non-profit early intervention and mental health sectors. 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 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, 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.
