ARTIST STATEMENT
I am a bi-coastal choreographer, director, and dancer. I create large scale site responsive dance works that immerse audiences and performers, engaging both parties as active participants in the world I create. I am committed to exploring how the physicality of dance can be matched on emotional and intellectual levels to yield work that is impactful to society. I develop a unique movement language and world during each creative process and build the framework for an environment of opposing elements, all linked by a shared value system. A cornerstone of my process is my prioritization of narrative and my inclusion of multi-disciplinary techniques including film, text, and sound within both the movement generation process and the final piece.
Review
"Conceptualized and choreographed by Moscelyne ParkeHarrison, it began with her issuing a spoken word warning about–something–and undergoing what seemed like a slow-motion panic attack: hurling herself to the ground and up again, hair whipping, eyes beseeching, it really appeared the throes of someone who knew something terrible and was trying and failing to convey that knowledge before it was too late."
-Broke Ass Stuart (San Francisco news+culture)
Magma, a Post:ballet production
"Eurydice wears the most traditionally feminine costume (despite the boots) yet, becoming ever more fierce and ragged in her defiance of her fate, Moscelyne ParkeHarrison seems to throw herself about with the most abandon of anyone; her final failure to break free of the clutch of Atropos is a devastating shock."
- 48hills (Independent San Francisco news + culture)
Lyra, a Post:ballet and The Living Earth Show co-production