Email | turnermovingcompany@gmail.com
Stephanie Turner is a choreographer, performer, and educator based in Providence, Rhode Island.
She is currently on the faculty at MIT and Roger Williams University and is directing the fall dance production at Harvard University. Stephanie also holds weekly classes and jams for Contact Improvisation Providence and performs seasonally for Jack in the Box Horror.
Contact improvisation has provided a responsive framework for her embodied study, incorporating principles from a wide variety of dance disciplines, improvisation, theater, and martial arts. She values learning and thinking through movement, material, force, gravity, rhythm, and sensation, particularly through spontaneous relationship with other bodies. This physical play instigates ongoing questions about human nature and development, allowing knowledge to emerge through direct experience.
Throughout her career, Stephanie has had the opportunity to collaborate and practice with many artists who continue to inspire her work, including Arc Iris and HDC Dance Ensemble in the production of iTMRW, New Works World Traditions, and independent artists Katie McNamara, Olase Freeman, Betsy Miller, Heidi Henderson, Nancy Stark Smith, Jungwoong Kim, Shura Baryshnikov, and musician Will Farrell, among many others.
Her choreographic work has been presented at Brown University, Bridgewater State University, Rhode Island College, New Movement Collaborative Performance Series, Festival Ballet, Iron Factory, Fidget Space, The Movement Exchange, RISD Museum, and Providence Fringe Festival.
As an editorial assistant and website developer, Stephanie has supported the work of Circles of Four faculty, Paula Sager, and Founder, Janet Adler, in publishing their most recent books, The Watch: Time to Witness the Beauty of It All and Intimacy in Emptiness: An Evolution of Embodied Consciousness, respectively.
She has taught 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 has produced many dance and theater events throughout Providence.