Artist and scholar Grisha Coleman works in movement, digital media, and performance that engage creative forms in choreography, music composition, and human-centered computer interaction.
Coleman’s residency at the ArtLab focused on research related to her ongoing project, “The Movement Undercommons.” This artistic research reimagined the use of new mobile motion-capture technology to build a data repository of movement portraits that center on critical and often overlooked narratives. Coleman worked with two Harvard undergraduates, Autumn Dorsey and Lily Cunningham, supported by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies.
Grisha Coleman earned an MFA in music composition and integrated media from the California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been supported by The Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University, Creative Capital, the Jerome Foundation, MacDowell, the MAP Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, Pioneer Works, the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Stanford University’s Mohr Visiting Artist Program, and the Surdna Foundation.
Coleman is an associate professor of movement, computation, and digital media in the School of Arts, Media, and Engineering at Arizona State University, with affiliations in the School of Music, Dance and Theatre, the Design School, and the School for the Future of Innovation in Society. She was previously a dancer with the acclaimed company Urban Bush Women. Subsequently, she founded the music performance group Hot Mouth, which toured internationally and was nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience.
Read more about Grisha Coleman in Dance Magazine: From Urban Bush Women to Robots.