SAMANTHA GIRON, MFA, BA, LICENSED DANCE TEACHER

CHOREOGRAPHIC WORK

  • Play Bow February, 2024
    Expo Festival English Theater, Berlin | Full - evening piece

  • Invitation to Battle June, 2022
    Theaterhaus Mitte, Berlin | Full-evening piece

  • Repeated Lockdown Extensions September, 2021
    Marameo. Berlin

  • Dance in the Time of Corona June, 2020
    Hasenheide Park, Berlin

  • Girls April 2019
    Sopiensalle. Berlin

  • Club Dance January 2018
    Podewil / Crossover Dance Battle, Berlin

  • This is a Piece About Heaven but its Really a Piece About Love May 2017
    SAFEhouse for the Performing Arts, San Francisco | Full-evening piece

  • Grace August, 2016
    Ufer Studios. Berlin | Full-evening piece

  • Grace June, 2016
    Dance Theater Mission, San Francisco | Full-evening piece

  • Dirt on Dorian Gray October, 2013
    CounterPULSE, San Francisco | Full-evening piece

  • Shatter November, 2012
    |ODC Theater, San Francisco

  • Apertur, April, 2012
    KUNST-STOFF arts, San Francisco | Full-evening piece

  • Sex Love Money January, 2011
    CounterPULSE, San Francisco | Full-evening piece

  • Exist in Absence March, 2010
    CounterPULSE, San Francisco | Full-evening piece

  • X ist in Absence July, 2009
    Subsuelo Gallery, Berlin | Full-evening piece

  • Mongrels January, 2008
    Unknown Theater, Los Angeles | Full-evening piece

  • Quickly Going Somewhere and Back December, 2007
    Cowell Theater at Fort Mason, San Francisco. Fringe Festival, Bouldar, Colorado

  • Interrogations June, 2007
    HIghways Perforamnce Space, Los Angeles

  • Fire Diary December, 2006
    Theater Artaud, San Francisco. Fringe Festival, Bouldar, Colorado

EDUCATION

  • Master’s of Fine Arts Degree: Choreography and Dance | 2006
    California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, USA

  • Post Baccalaureate Degree: Dance Education | 2015
    California State University, Hayward, USA

  • Bachelor’s Degree: Dance | 2001
    Mills College, Oakland, USA

DANCE TEACHING EXPERIENCE - BERLIN

DANCE TEACHING EXPERIENCE - USA

  • Thomas Edison Charter Academy: 2013 - 2017
    Full-time Dance Teacher / Head of Dance Program

  • Evergreen College
    Adjunct Dance Professor

  • San Jose College
    Adjunct Dance Professor

  • Ohlone College
    Adjunct Dance Professor

  • LA College. Adjunct Dance Professor

CURATORIAL WORK - USA

  • Makeup Mutiny #1. Twin Space. San Francisco

  • Art Attack at the Supper Club - Guest Curator. Supper Club. San Francisco

  • Makeup Mutiny #2. The Garage. San Francisco

  • Women and War. Highways. LA

LECTURER & MODERATOR

  • Dance Discourse Project - Topic: Fusion Dance Styles - Contemporary to Street

  • American Dance Conference. Fusion Dance Styles - Contemporary to Street

WORKSHOPS TAUGHT

  • Dis-Tanzen Festival 2022 - Topic: Leaving Your Comfort Zone as an Artist

GRANTS - GERMANY

  • #TakeHeart. July - September, 2022. She / He / They

  • Dis-Tanz-Solo. April - June, 2022. Play Bow

GRANTS - USA

  • Zellerbach Grant

  • SAFEhouse arts

  • ODC Theater

  • CounterPULSE

  • Unknown Theater

  • Highways Perforamnce Space

Published Reviews of Performances - written about Giron’s choreography