D. Chase Angier

Biography

"I love the students. They're willing to put themselves out there to learn and create." - D. Chase Angier

D. Chase Angier (she/her) is an active artist, educator, curator and arts advocate. A Professor of Dance in the Performing Arts Division at Alfred University, Angier has helped cultivate a dance program rooted in creative placemaking, interdisciplinary composition, and experimentation. She is deeply committed to moving the dance field forward—supporting artists and audiences through teaching, curation, and advocacy.

Angier is the Artistic Director of Angier Performance Works and an interdisciplinary artist whose practice unfolds at the thresholds of movement, visual art, and scenography. Based in New York State but shaped by international collaboration, she lectures, teaches, performs, and creates across borders and disciplines. Angier Performance Works emerges through sustained, intimate collaboration with artists in the visual, performing, and design fields, generating performances that have traveled to Japan, the Czech Republic, Germany, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Iceland, France, and throughout the United States. These works—visually textured, movement-driven, and often situated in non-theatrical environments—investigate interconnectivity, shared presence, and the subtle ways bodies listen to place.

Angier is a member of the NYS DanceForce, a partner with NYSCA, and was an International Juror for the Exhibition of Countries and Regions at the 2023 Prague Quadrennial,  a curator for the 2019 Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, and a Curriculum Specialist in Dance for Juilliard’s Global K – 12 Program. She received her MFA in choreography from The Ohio State University and her BA in dance from The University of California, Los Angeles.

Education

• The Ohio State University, M.F.A. Choreography
• University of California, Los Angeles, B.A Dance

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