Biography

Morgan Kulas is a dancer-philosopher and teacher-practitioner whose work explores the poetry, potential, and phenomena of the psychosomatic. Her creative and community led research contributes to the web of inquiry taking place at the intersection of decoloniality, deep ecology, and performance studies. Ensuing in contemplative artworks that perform the body as a part of nature.

In her artistic practice, Morgan de-constructs and re-constructs from visible and invisible detritus. The intangible, impermanent, and transparent are themes. Revealing an ongoing investigation of the body as a landscape through which the beauty and trauma of the Anthropocene is being mirrored. Her work aims to provoke a sense of metaphysical inquiry in the viewer-participant, taking shape through the mediums of choreography, performance, sound, writings, collage, installation, and social practice.

Morgan has been teaching movement for over 15 years. Her praxis is informed by a lifetime of training and career in post-modern dance, as well as considerable practice as a lay practitioner of Zen, Yoga, and Daoyin. She earned her BFA in Performance at Chicago College of Performing Arts and MFA in Art at University of New Mexico.