ROXANNE GRAY 
Roxanne Gray is a Tejana 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 current research interests center on developing a borderland movement practice utilizing Folklórico and modern dance. Her thesis work, Nepantla, was chosen to represent the U of U at the American College Dance Association High Desert Regional Conference in 2025.
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). Her films have been screened at Utah Dance Film Festival, Cinnevox Dance Film Festival, Noori Screendance Festival, and American Dance Festival's Movies by Movers.
She is the Founder, Director, and Curator of 801 Salon, a multidisciplinary arts and performance series in Salt Lake City. She is also the Founder and Director of PlayGround Dance Project, a choreographic flash incubator based in Salt Lake City, for which she received the Tier 1 Artist Career Empowerment Grant from the Salt Lake City Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts in 2023.
"Embracing the Choque: Pedagogical Disruptors in Folk Dance Instruction"
Journal of Folklore and Education, volume 11, 2024
Co-authored with Kiri Avelar
"Nepantla" (Thesis Work)
The University of Utah Graduate Showcase
Salt Lake City, UT
October 24-26, 2024
"The Fall"
American Dance Festival, Movies by Movers
Durham, NC
November 1-3, 2024
Guest Rehearsal Assistant for
Natosha Washington
University of Utah, SLC
ANEW
February 13-22, 2025
"Nepantla"
American College Dance Association, High Desert Conference, 2025
Representing The University of Utah School of Dance
University of Wyoming, Laramie
March 26-29, 2025
"Nepantla: Border Arte"
Group Curation
Finch Lane Gallery, SLC
Opening Reception: April 18, 2025 6-9 pm
Exhibit: April 18- May 30, 2025
"Feathered Tides"
Directed by Mitsu Salmon
Supported by Wake the Great Salt Lake
Miller Park, SLC
May 15-18, 23-24, 2025