Meg Dodini

Texas, choreography

Meg Dodini is a dancer, choreographer, educator, and filmmaker based out of Dallas, TX. She holds a BA in Dance Education from Brigham Young University and an MFA in Dance Performance from Hollins University. After spending three years performing and creating work throughout Europe, she recently returned to the United States with over a decade of professional experience in modern/contemporary dance.

Meg has performed with companies in Utah, New York, and Norway, including Odyssey Dance Theatre, Atlas Dance Collective, BodiLogic, ImproLaB, Carte Blanche Norwegian Contemporary Company, and currently Grackle Dance Collective under the direction of Jennifer Mabus. Throughout her career, she has performed works by internationally recognized choreographers such as Ohad Naharin, Martha Graham, Donald McKayle, José Limón, Stephen Petronio, Sigal Zouk, Marit Bjørnstad and more. Her own choreographic and improvisational work has been presented at festivals across Europe, including Reykjavik Dance Fest, Mind the Gap in Oslo, Creart Fest in Barcelona and more.

In addition to her stage work, Meg is an accomplished dance filmmaker whose films have screened internationally at festivals including the Portland Dance Film Festival, Prague Dance Film Festival, EspooDigi Film Festival in Finland, and Utah Dance Film Festival. She has taught at Cornell University, the Oslo National Academy of the Arts and is currently on the dance faculty at Dallas College. Her movement research currently explores ageism and ableism in dance, viewership politics between performer and spectator, the body as a repository of memory and intelligence, and movement as a means of expressing personal and generational histories.