Claire Porter

Claire Porter has performed CP /PORTABLES internationally, with appearances in India, Germany, Holland, England, Latvia, and Korea. Porter's US work is extensive. In the New York City area, her work has been produced at Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace St. Mark's Church, PS 122, Joe's Pub, The Kitchen, The Joyce Theater, Joyce SOHO, 92nd St. Y, Town Hall, The Bottom Line, The NY Horticulture Society, Liberty Science Center, and New Jersey Performing Arts Center. PORTABLES has also showcased at the American Dance Festival, The Lucille Ball Festival of Comedy, Bates Dance Festival, Jacob's Pillow, Florida Dance Festival, The Kennedy Center, Woolly Mammoth Theater DC, Tampa Bay Off Center Theater, Duncan Theater Palm Beach FL, Center Stage Raleigh NC, The Southern Theater Minneapolis MN, The Yard on Martha's Vineyard, and others. Porter performed at the opening of the Peter Eisenman Building at the University of Cincinnati, was the hostess-comedienne-scene changer for the Minnesota Composers Forum's New Music Concert, performed for Mikhail Baryshnikov's 2009 GALA, set a solo on Kansas City Ballet, has appeared on staircases, boats, backyards, gyms, classrooms, airports, humor festivals, museums, and soapboxes and is currently performing Namely, Muscles, recipient of the NYC Fringe Festival 2010's Overall Excellence Award, at festivals, conferences, theaters, medical schools and universities around the U.S.

Porter has received several National Endowment for the Arts Choreography Fellowships, New Jersey State Council for the Arts Choreography Fellowships, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Awards, Live Music for Dance Award and Commissions from Dance Theater Workshop's First Light Project, The 92nd St Y Harkness Dance Festival, Art Matters, Meet The Composer, VOGUE Magazine, University Dance Companies, and Domino's Pizza Company. Porter is supported by a grant from the Arnhold Foundation NYC. Porter taught courses in Laban Movement Analysis and/or Choreography at Columbia Teachers College, Case Western Reserve University, Grand Valley State College, NYU's Dance Education Program, Connecticut College, Manhattanville College, and HOPE College MI. She teaches her Fun Dancing Workout in Bergen County NJ and serves on the Board of DanceNJ. Porter has an MA in Dance from Ohio State, a BA in Mathematics from The College of New Rochelle, is a Laban Movement Analyst, and is represented by PENTACLE/DanceWorks NYC. Fall 2011 Porter will be spending some time in Residence at The Baryshnikov Arts Center.