Department of Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance

Utam Moses is a dance theatre artist, teacher, and embodied theorist. She has performed with the Doors Project, BodyResearch of San Francisco, California and WindshipDance of Nashville, Tennessee, among others. She has presented collaborative performance works at festivals such as Going Dutch Festival and Tennessee Women's Theater Project. Past projects include Underneath Us, a collaborative community-based activist program that integrated film screenings, live works, community workshops and performances at Sunrise Movement marches in California for environmental justice. Her current dance film, OVERANDOVER was a selected film for the Critical Mass: Contact Improvisation at 50 Festival and will be shown at the Moving Body Festival 2022 in Varna, Bulgaria and as part of the Moving States Arts Film Series in Providence, RI. Past films include This Old Place Pt. 1 and 2, which was shown at MildClimate Gallery, Nashville, TN as part of a solo exhibition and performance of "What was When," part of an ongoing collaboration with dancer Mckay House. Utam received her B.A. in Kinesiology and Contemporary Dance with a focus in Anthropology of Dance from IU Bloomington, graduating summa cum laude. She received her M.A. in Performance Studies from NYU's Tisch School for the Arts.