Will Rawls

Will Rawls is a performer, independent choreographer and curator based in New York City.  His work has appeared at Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace Project, Dixon Place, The Brooklyn Museum, ISE Cultural Foundation and Mount Tremper Arts.  Since 2006, Rawls has collaborated with Kennis Hawkins as the performance art duo, Dance Gang.  He has performed with Shen Wei Dance Arts, Noemie LaFrance, nicholasleichterdance, Katie Workum, Neal Medlyn and David Neumann / advanced beginner group.  In 2010, Rawls was an interpreter in Tino Sehgal’s “This Progress” at the The Guggenheim Museum, New York, and re-performed works by Marina Abramovic at the Museum of Modern Art.  Rawls is a guest artist at Bard College and a student mentor for Colorado College's Department of Drama and Dance.  Rawls will present a new solo, Collected Fictions, at Danspace Project in February 2012 and will appear in Alain Buffard's Baron Samedi, premiering April 2012.