AARON LOUX is a dance artist, choreographer, educator, and writer based in New York City. He encountered modern dance as a child at the Creative Dance Center in Seattle, Washington before earning his B.F.A. from Juilliard. For twelve years, Aaron was a celebrated member of the Mark Morris Dance Group, appearing in the New York Times’ “Top Male Dance Performances of 2014.” He has also performed with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, Merce Cunningham Trust, Cornfield Dance, Christopher Williams, Billy Smith Dance, and Charlotte Bydwell.
His own choreography has been presented at the Juilliard School, the Vision of Sound festival, and in the Works & Process Artists Virtual Commissions series at the Guggenheim. Aaron teaches dance to adults of diverse backgrounds, including beginners, professionals, and dancers living with Parkinson’s disease through the Dance for PD® program. He also leads company classes for MMDG, Gibney Dance, the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, and the Paul Taylor and Limón dance companies. Aaron’s dance writing appears in the September 2023 and January 2024 issues of PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, published by MIT Press. Aaron is currently pursuing a B.A. in American Studies at Columbia University and is an adjunct instructor in ballet technique at Marymount Manhattan College.
BRIAN LAWSON is a dance performer and educator who began dancing in Toronto, Canada. In 2005, he spent a year at Codarts in Rotterdam and subsequently began his degree at SUNY Purchase. While studying, he performed with Douglas Dunn and Dancers and as a supplemental dancer for the Mark Morris Dance Group. He graduated summa cum laude from Purchase in 2010 with a B.F.A. in dance performance and received the President’s Award in Modern Dance. He became a member of the Mark Morris Dance Group in 2011 and had the great pleasure of touring the United States and the world performing Morris’ dances. Brian left MMDG to earn his M.F.A. from the University of Washington, where he graduated in 2020. Since graduating he has been on faculty at Cornish College of the Arts, and is now an Assistant Professor of Dance at Skidmore College.
Lawson enjoys teaching dance to diverse populations and has given masterclasses at Purchase College, NYU Tisch, and the American Dance Festival among others. Recently he partook in the Merce Cunningham Trust’s event, Night of 100 Solos, and subsequently became a certified teacher of the Cunningham technique. Currently he is a member of Pam Tanowitz Dance.
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