HEATHER N. DUTTON

Heather Dutton is a Brooklyn-based choreographer, teaching artist, and freelance performer.

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They have presented their work at Here Arts Center, LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, The Tank, Dixon Place, Spark Theater Festival, the Koresh Come Together Dance Festival, The Craft NYC, and more. She has performed for a variety of NYC and Philadelphia based choreographers, and currently teaches dance in NYC public schools with the National Dance Institute. In addition to her multi-genre dance training, she has a background in theatre, comedy, and gender studies, all of which inform her choreographic aesthetic. Their creative process is steered by the ambition of making emotionally accessible work for their audiences, often grounded in nuanced narratives and supported by the use of theatrical devices (such as prop work, specific/realistic costuming, text/dialogue, gestural and pedestrian movement, etc.).

 

As a queer and gender fluid person, Dutton is particularly interested in a layered and thorough exploration of queerness, gender identity, and unconventional emotional relationships. She is a firm believer that people are experts of their own experiences, and that our responsibility as artists is to be vulnerable about said lived experiences within our communities. Therefore, her work is often incredibly collaborative and greatly informed by the input of her dancers/collaborators. In her work, she strives to underscore the light-hearted and comedic aspects of human nature, while simultaneously highlighting the more complicated, emotionally challenging corners of the human experience. Her ultimate creative goal is to make her audiences laugh, think, and feel within any given work.