about

Contact: mere.bove@gmail.com

Meredith Bove is a dancer and dramaturg based in western Massachusetts. Her practices move between and across performance, writing, dance, and audio. Through each of these mediums, she is devoted to engaging the tensions between language and embodied experience. She approaches her work in writing, performance, and dramaturgy as possible sites for the excavation of embodied archives, the destabilization of hierarchies, and for the cultivation of increased care, interdependence, and creative kinship.

Meredith has taught dance & performance studies at Hollins University (2011-2012 & 2016), Montgomery College (2014-2016), Springfield College (2016), Keene State College (2017-2020), Smith College (2021-2022), and most recently as Visiting Artist in Dance at Mount Holyoke College (2022-2024) where she leads seminars on dance writing, dramaturgy, and queer & feminist performance. She has collaborated as a dramaturg with choreographers Barbie Diewald, Rebecca Pappas, and Lailye Weidman, and has performed in the work of Jérôme Bel, Luis Lara Malvacías, Sharon Mansur, Stephanie Miracle, Jillian Peña, Sara Smith, and Karinne Keithley Syers.

Her writing on performance has been published inThINKingDANCE, Culturebot, and Contact Quarterly; forThe Making Room (2018), a collaboration between choreographers Bebe Miller and Susan Rethorst; and by Keene State College’s Redfern Arts Center for Reggie Wilson’s POWER (2021). She was Associate Editor for Contact Quarterly between 2018-2020, and continues to be influenced by the publication’s legacy and commitment to the articulation of the unfolding experience of embodiment.

Currently she is Program Coordinator and “unofficial dramaturg” at A.P.E. in Northampton, Massachusetts where she collaborates with co-directors Kathy Couch and Mollye Maxner to steward a number of programs, including Making Ground and the newly formed Workroom Cooperative.