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
Biography
Moscelyne ParkeHarrison is a choreographer, director, and dance artist. She is the former Associate Artistic Director and Resident Choreographer of Post:ballet (2022-25), and co-director of BODYSONNET (2019-present). She is a graduate of The Juilliard School (Dance ‘19) with the Joseph W. Polisi Artist as Citizen Award. At Juilliard she was awarded numerous choreographic opportunities including a collaboration with Juilliard415 at Alice Tully Hall. 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 classes at ODC, The Juilliard School, LINES, Steps on Broadway, Broadway Dance Center, UC Davis, UC Berkeley, and Yale University. Since 2023 she has collaborated with AXIS Dance Company, one of the nation’s most acclaimed ensembles of disabled, non-disabled, d/Deaf and neurodiverse performers, as a teacher and performing artist. In July 2025 she was asked to serve as Interim Rehearsal Director, resetting Jorge Crecis’ ‘Blueprints.' Her films have been featured at The San Francisco Dance Film Festival, Dance Camera West, and ADF’s Movies By Movers. She recently choreographed 'Magma', an evening length immersive dance theater show at SF’s premiere nightclub, The Midway. 'Magma' was produced by Post:ballet and featured live original sound by dj.ari.b.