Megan Danielle Kendzior is a dance maker and arts advocate, originally hailing from Sarasota, Florida. Her choreographic work offers buoyant explorative scores that allow imagination to blend with environmental influence, abstract narrative, and historical inquiry. As a cultural and community organizer, she works to deepen the civic dialogue around race, identity, ability, class, sexuality, and gender.

Megan’s work has been presented in New York by Danspace Project and New York Live Arts, among other venues in California, Florida, Illinois, Montana, North Carolina, Virginia, Washington DC, Canada, Germany, Guatemala, Mexico and Israel. Her five-year performative research project Witness was celebrated through the National College Dance Festival's Outstanding Student Choreographer Award at the Kennedy Center in DC, an article in the University of Florida’s Undergraduate Research Journal, and an evening-length presentation in Manhattan at Danspace Project. Kendzior works as a collaborating performing artist with a number of choreographers and directors around the world in the creation of new dance and theater works.

Upon moving to in New York in 2011 (after graduating from the University of Florida), she worked as an intern for Movement Research and Dance New Amsterdam, and as an administrative assistant to Wally Cardona, Anna Sperber, Neta Pulvermacher, and the School of American Ballet. For the next eight years, she worked as an administrative arts advocate for Movement Research (as the Development Manager), the American Alliance of Artists and Audiences (as the Managing Director), Jennifer Monson/iLAND (as the Managing Director). Over the past 10 years, she has worked as a freelance strategic development consultant (producer and grantwriter) for a range of artists and organizations including: Bangladesh Institute for Performing Arts, Ali Kenner Brodsky, Black Label Movement, Cat Call Choir, Yoshiko Chuma, Grisha Coleman, DD Dorvillier, The Field Center, Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya of LEIMAY, Orange Grove Dance, Melinda Ring, Danielle Russo, Molly Poerstel, Neta Pulvermacher, Joel Mejia Smith, Valeria Solomonoff, Sundog Theatre, Estrellx Supernova, Donna Uchizono, Violence and Joy/Patrick Barnes, Cathy Weis, and Nami Yamamoto, among others.

In 2018, she spent six months at creative residency centers in Mexico and Guatemala, building relationships, and activating the anti-racist framework she learned through trainings with the People's Institute for Survival and Beyond and Urban Bush Women’s Summer Leadership Institute. Megan completed her MFA in Experimental Choreography at the University of California at Riverside (2022). She was honored to work as a teaching artist in the Dance Department, as a UCR Gluck Fellow, and as a Chancellor’s Distinguished Fellowship recipient in 2019-2022.

After 20 years of freelance strategic consulting and non-profit development service, Megan has recently accepted a position with the Chosen Family Law Center as the Development Director. Chosen Family Law Center is building the legal framework to support dignity and justice for all family types. CFLC pursues its mission through advocacy and education, legislative development, and direct legal services for those in need.

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