Quicksilver Dance
Mariah Steele/Quicksilver Dance is a modern dance company based in Oakland, CA, founded in Cambridge, MA, directed by choreographer Mariah Steele. The company, named Quicksilver Dance in 2010, grew out of Mariah’s work as an independent choreographer since 2006 and represents the next chapter of her continued journey. Mariah’s choreography has been presented at numerous venues in both the New York and Boston metropolitan areas including: the Boston Center for the Arts, Harvard University, Dance for World Community, The Massachusetts Dance Festival, Green Street Studios, The Dance Complex, The Dance in Education Foundation at SUNY Purchase, White Wave’s John Ryan Theater in Brooklyn, Dance Theater Workshop and Princeton University. She has also self-produced four full-evening shows of choreography, one a benefit for the Central Asia Institute at City Center Studios in NYC in 2008 and three annual shows at MIT’s Simmons Hall in April 2011, 2012 & 2013.
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Biography of the Artistic Director: Mariah Steele grew up dancing at the Steffi Nossen School of Dance in White Plains, New York, with May O'Donnell technique at the core of a modern-dance based curriculum. Mariah graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University with a major in Anthropology and minor in Dance. She combined these two passions by studying traditional Kandyan dance in Sri Lanka for two months and then writing her anthropology thesis about the experience: "Dancing Away the Divide Between Ritual and Art." Ze'eva Cohen and Rebecca Lazier were her main dance teachers and mentors at Princeton. She went on to perform professionally in New York City in the companies of James Martin, Beth Soll, and Kelley Donovan. Since graduating, her choreography has been shown extensively up and down the East Coast. Since moving to Boston in 2008, she has performed with Sokolow Now!, the Anna Sokolow archival company, Rebecca Rice Dance, Nell Breyer and Sara Smith, among others. Recently named a "Rising Talent" by the Boston Globe, Mariah continues to develop her unique blend of original choreography and anthropological investigation in her Boston-based company Quicksilver Dance and through teaching, workshops, and commissions. In 2011, Mariah earned a Masters Degree at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, concentrating in non-profit management and conflict resolution, and writing her thesis about using dance in peacebuilding. Mariah has taught modern, partnering and choreography to students of all ages, including summer intensives at the Steffi Nossen School of Dance and Walnut Hill School. She has also taught master classes and workshops around the world, including in Sri Lanka, in Ghana and at the Asian University for Women in Bangladesh. Currently, Mariah teaches dance and dance history at Endicott College in Beverly, MA.
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