Email | turnermovingcompany@gmail.com
Stephanie Turner is a choreographer, performer, and educator based in Providence, Rhode Island.
Her work explores the functional and expressive possibilities of movement, cultivating educational and performance spaces where experimentation, curiosity, and risk-taking can thrive. For over 15 years, contact improvisation has been the framework for her embodied research, integrating movement principles from dance, improvisation, and martial arts practices that allow structure and spontaneity to coexist.
She is the director of the fall 2026 dance production at Harvard University, a lecturer of Theater Arts at MIT and an adjunct professor of Dance and Performance Studies at Roger Williams University. Stephanie holds weekly classes and jams for Contact Improvisation Providence. She performs seasonally with Jack in the Box Horror and is currently in choreographic residence with Michelle Bach-Coulibaly and Lea D’arminio.
She has taught contact improvisation as an adjunct lecturer at Brown University, Salve Regina University and as a teaching fellow at Hampshire and Smith College. As the founder/director of The Movement Exchange and as an independent artist, she produced dance and theater events, hosting local and international artists.
BFA in dance performance from Rhode Island College | MFA in Choreography from Smith College