Roxanne Gray is a Latina Salt Lake City-based independent choreographer, performer, teaching artist, and curator. She is a current Modern Dance MFA Candidate and Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Utah. Her creative work has been presented at LEVYdance, Shawl-Anderson Dance Center, Mission Dance Theater, Studio Azul, and SAFEhouse for the Performing Arts (San Francisco, Bay Area); as well as Covey Center for the Arts, 12 Minutes Max, loveDANCEmore, Clubhouse, Twig Media Lab, and 801 Salon (Salt Lake City, UT).
Gray works to build community through collaborative structures in her creative work while exploring the diversity of human emotion and identity through curated experiences. Her project, PAIR, was initiated while in residence at SAFEhouse, and supported by the Dancers' Group CA$H Fund. Excerpts of the work were also presented at The California Academy of Sciences. Wasatch Contemporary Dance Company commissioned a film of PAIR, directed by Gray, and supported by the Oakland CARES Fund for Artists. The piece was filmed in five different locations throughout Utah, and was an official selection for the Utah Dance Film Festival, 2021, and CineVox Dance Film Festival, 2023. Her film, Tableau, was presented by loveDANCEmore (SLC) as a part of their commissioning program, "Only the Lonely." Tableau was an official selection for the American College Dance Association Northwest Regional Conference, 2023, and Cinevox Dance Film Festival, 2023. Her recent multi-disciplinary piece, Viriditas, was funded by loveDANCEmore and the Salt Lake City Arts Council. It has been presented at 801 Salon and WIP, and will be performed at 12 Minutes Max, Material Gallery, and LDM Sunday Series in the Fall, 2023.
Gray received her BA in Dance from Brigham Young University. She is an experienced teaching artist and has served on faculty at studios and schools throughout Utah, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Brooklyn, NY. She has had the privilege of setting work on Utah Metropolitan Ballet and Wasatch Contemporary Dance Company (Utah). As a freelance performer, Gray has performed with Tara Pilbrow Dance and Stephanie Unger & Artists (San Francisco, Bay Area).
Gray is the Co-Founder, Director, and Curator of 801 Salon, a monthly multidisciplinary arts and performance series in Salt Lake City. She also received the Tier 1 Artist Career Empowerment Grant from the Salt Lake City Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts to produce PlayGround Dance Project, 2023.
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UPCOMING
PAIR
June 3, 2023
Red Rock Dance Festival
The Fall
June 23, 2023
"Small Bites" Film Screening
Twig Media Lab
PlayGround Dance Project
produced and directed by Roxanne Gray/801 Salon
July 22, 2023 @ 7 pm
Leona Wagner Black Box Theater
Big Beats
by Joanna Kotze
(assisted by Roxanne Gray)
August 25-26, 2023
Location TBA, SLC
Viriditas
collaborative performance
September 15, 2023
Material Gallery
Viriditas
collaborative performance
November 19, 2023 @ 2 pm
12 Minutes Max, Salt Lake City Library