Wild Tongue is a dance-theater project where movement and cultural memory collide. Three renowned choreographers engage with diverse communities to confront and celebrate tensions across multiple language systems.

The intention of these dance-theater works has been to make alienating social structures malleable through dancing while celebrating queer ideals of empathy, multiplicity, and unruliness. The research has evolved into an autoethnographic praxis centered around the stories of collaborators and my lived experience.

KEVIN WILLIAMSON (he/him) centers his choreographic research on queer belonging. A Lester Horton Award recipient, Bates Educators Fellow, and Center Theatre Group Sherwood Finalist, Kevin currently serves as Chair of Dance at Scripps College where he is an Associate Professor. Currently, he is touring a multidisciplinary diptych with collaborators Maria Gillespie and Nguyen Nguyen that explores the generative conflict in overlapping utterance, song, story, dance, and projected text. Past choreographies include presentations at DanspaceProject, REDCAT NOW, Dixon Place, CounterPulse, LACMA, Austin’s OUTsider Fest, Tempe’s Breaking Ground, Michigan’s RADfest, Minnesota Fringe, Diversionary Theater SD, and the Beijing Dance Festival. His choreography for theater/opera includes Washington National Opera, Atlantic Theater Company, the Juilliard School, Geffen Playhouse, Yale Theater, and Opera UCLA; and commissioned works for CSULB, LMU, and AMDA. His 2022 film “Safe and Sound” co-produced with Taso Papadakis was an official selection at several avant-garde and queer dance film festivals globally. Kevin was a dancing member of David Roussève REALITY, Oni Dance, LA Contemporary Dance Company, and Robert Moses’ Kin. He was a guest for David Gordon’s PickUpPerformance, Angelin Preljocaj and Julie Taymor at the LA Opera, a soloist in Bernstein’s MASS for the LA Philharmonic and Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival and has danced in works by Ryan Heffington, Cheng-chieh Yu, Victoria Marks, Heidi Duckler, Keith Johnson, and many more. He received his MFA in Choreography from UCLA’s Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance and is a certified Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analyst, yoga instructor and somatic dance educator.

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