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Meg Wolfe (she/her) is a queer interdisciplinary dance artist based in Deer Isle, Maine since 2019. She has focused on multi-year choreography of plants and place (aka landscape gardening) since 2020.

Recent work has been shown at Speedwell Contemporary (Portland), The Box (Los Angeles, CA), residency at The Cannery (Penobscot); 2020 Harbor Residency artist at Opera House Arts (Stonington); Reversing Falls Sanctuary (Brooksville); Maine Moves series (Portland). 

For 30+ years, she worked as a choreographer, curator and producer in Los Angeles and New York, creating solo and collaborative dance works for theaters, galleries, and other sites; as well as visual objects, video, installations, and community organizing initiatives.

Based in Los Angeles from 2004-2019, Wolfe was the founding director of Show Box L.A.; running the organization from 2009-2020. She curated and produced numerous dance events in theaters, studios, bars, warehouses, ballrooms, galleries, social clubs – from the roving low tech Anatomy Riot series (2006-12) to fully produced works by guest artists. She created and managed the studio residency project we live in space (2016-20); was a founding co-editor of itch dance journal (2006-13); and Coordinator for Choreographers in Mentorship Exchange in Southern California (2008-12). She was honored as a Cultural Trailblazer by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (2018).

Her full-evening performance works include New Faithful Disco (2016); Shannon Does Cloudland (2013); trembler.SHIFTER (2011); and The Return of Captain Ladyvoice (2007). New Faithful Disco was a 2016 National Performance Network Creation Fund and Forth Fund Project co-commissioned by REDCAT, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA), DiverseWorks, Z Space, and NPN. It was noted in Artforum’s Best of 2016 – The Year in Performance. In 2018 she was performer and rehearsal director for a retrospective of work by Sylvia Palacios Whitman for the Pacific Standard Time Festival.

Prior to Los Angeles, her early work was presented in NYC at venues such as Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace Project at St. Mark’s, The Kitchen, Movement Research at Judson Church, and others. She danced in the works of Vicky Shick (1999-2003), Clarinda Mac Low, Susan Rethorst, and others. 

Wolfe has been supported by the National Performance Network, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant, Center for Cultural Innovation and Durfee Foundation ARC Grants, CHIME, Danspace Project Commissioning Initiative and Meet the Composer; and through residencies at REDCAT, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Performance Works NorthWest; UCLA World Arts & Culture; Show Box LA with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.