Talia Mason is a dancer and choreographer interested in the intersections of kinesthetic and verbal language and the role of memory in shaping/forging dances/dance making practices. Talia holds a BA in Dance and Francophone Studies and Education from Bates, a post-baccalaureate in performance from Headlong Performance Institute, an MFA in Experimental Choreography from UC-Riverside where she was the recipient of numerous graduate and research fellowships, and an M.Ed at the University of Maryland with a French K-12 certification. These days, you can find Talia teaching French at Tilden Middle School where she integrates dance into her foreign language instruction. Talia taught Movement full-time at Greene Towne Montessori in Philadelphia and served as a freelance graphic designer and marketing assistant for Headlong. She adjuncts and helps facilitate community-oriented engagements for Dance Exchange. Talia’s early years included training at Dance Exchange with Liz Lerman and other artists and time living and dancing at the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company outside of Haifa. Her choreography has been presented at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Movement Research’s Open Performance, Fringearts’s Scratch Night, Bartram’s Garden, UC-Riverside, and Dance Exchange. She has performed in work choreographed by Mariadela Belle Alvarez, Nicole Bindler, Rachel Boggia, Dance Exchange, Sean Dorsey, Lily Kind, Shreshth Khilani/Sarah Marks Mininsohn, Cassie Meador, Tiffany Rhynard, and Mira Treatman. Her work with collaborator Christina Catanese, Field Notes on Remembering, premiered at Bartram’s Garden with the oldest ginkgo tree in North America. Her latest piece and her MFA research, Water Lines, looks at process/performance as sites of memory in understanding her Jewish American Midwestern ancestry and the role of memory and remembering in auto-ethnographic multidisciplinary interactive work.

To access Talia’s resumé email her at: tmasondance@gmail.com