ARTIST STATEMENT
I create 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 to build the framework for an environment of opposing elements, all linked by a shared value system. I often work with original or live music. I find that active collaboration with the sonic element pushes me to prioritize risk taking and precision.
RESUME
BIOGRAPHY
Moscelyne ParkeHarrison is a choreographer, director, and dance artist based in NYC. She is the former Associate Artistic Director and Resident Choreographer of Post:ballet (2022-25), and Artistic Director of NYC based dance company BODYSONNET (2019-present). She is a graduate of The Juilliard School with the Joseph W. Polisi Artist as Citizen Award. She recently choreographed 'Magma', an evening length immersive dance theater show at SF’s premiere nightclub, The Midway.
In July 2025 she was asked to serve as Interim Rehearsal Director of AXIS Dance Company, one of the nation’s most acclaimed ensembles of disabled, non-disabled, d/Deaf and neurodiverse performers, whom she has collaborated with since 2023 as a teacher and performing artist.
Moscelyne has received support from Anthony Quinn Foundation, New England Foundation for the Arts, Adobe, and MassCultural Council, and commissions from The Juilliard School, Skidmore College, Metropolis Ensemble, Merde Project, LINES Training Program, and Post:ballet. She has taught at ODC, The Juilliard School, LINES, Broadway Dance Center, UC Davis, and UC Berkeley. Moscelyne’s dance films have been featured at The San Francisco Dance Film Festival, Dance Camera West, and ADF’s Movies By Movers.
She currently teaches at Joffrey NYC, Gibney, and Steps on Broadway. She is the choreographer and creative supervisor for ‘Filling the Shell’, techno-choreographic work produced by ARESPHERE with BODYSONNET (2025-26)
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