CLAIRE PORTER

Claire Porter, choreographer/performer/writer, known for her comedic text-movement dances and her skilled teaching, has performed her work, Claire Porter / PORTABLES, in Scotland, India, Germany, Holland, England, Latvia, Poland and Korea and in the New York City area at Theater Row, Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace St. Mark’s Church, PS 122, Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater, The Kitchen, The Joyce Theater, Joyce SOHO, 92nd St. Y, Town Hall, The Bottom Line, The NY Horticulture Society, New Jersey Performing Arts Center, South Orange Performing Arts Center and Liberty Science Center. PORTABLES has also showcased at the American Dance Festival, Baryshnikov Arts Center, The Lucille Ball Festival of Comedy, Bates Dance Festival, Jacob’s Pillow, Florida Dance Festival, The Kennedy Center, Woolly Mammoth Theater DC, Tampa Bay Off Center Theater, Duncan Theater Palm Beach FL, Center Stage Raleigh NC, The Southern Theater Minneapolis MN and at The Yard on Martha’s Vineyard. Porter has performed her piece, Fund Raiser, at special events and fundraisers including for the Woman’s Fund-Raising Coalition of America and her piece, Green Dress Circle, for openings including for Mikhail Baryshnikov’s Gala Opening of The Baryshnikov Arts Center and the Grand Opening of the Aronoff Center at the University of Cincinnati. She has also created and performed Namely, Muscles, a one-hour celebration of all the major muscles in the body in poetry, which received the NYC Fringe Festival 2010’s Overall Excellence Award and United Solo Festival 2015’s Best Poetry Show, and continues to be performed at festivals, conferences, theaters, medical schools and universities. Porter has performed and/or choreographed for many universities including Princeton University, Rutgers State University, Ripon College WI, Montclair State University, Hofstra University, Sonoma State University, Ohio State University, Ohio University, Case Western Reserve University, Kenyon College, University of Buffalo, Hobart William Smith University, North Texas State University, Antioch College, University of Texas Austin, Texas Women’s University, Harvard University, Houston State University, Long Beach State University, University of Nevada, University of Oklahoma, Michigan State University, Western Michigan State University, Grand Valley State University, North Carolina State University, Rowan College of South Jersey, Denison University, Oberlin College, Baldwin Wallace College, University of North Carolina Charlotte, Shenandoah University, Hope College MI, Ohio State University, Wright State University OH, Simon’s Rock College, Stockton College of NJ, Manhattanville College, Trinity College Hartford, Long Beach State University, Princeton University, Wesleyan University, Connecticut College, Purchase College, Roger Williams University, Boston University, Amherst College, University of Massachusetts, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, Hampshire College, Boston University, Cleveland State University, University of Oregon Eugene, Muhlenberg College PA, and Kent State University.

Intrigued by syntax Claire performed her group work Sen-tence, at Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater produced by DanceNow. It included Falling for Prepositions, Witnessing Adverbs and Pronoun Emergency. At Montclair State University she created Sentenced to Sentences, at NYU, Having Conjunctions and at Purchase College, Out of The Question.

Claire teaches Improvisation, Choreography and Laban Movement Analysis for the MFA program at Montclair State University and Creativity as Practice for Fairleigh Dickinson University Metropolitan Campus. She also teaching her Dancing Workout at the Center for Modern Dance in Hackensack NJ. She has taught at Teachers College Columbia University, New York University, Connecticut College, Wesleyan University, Purchase College and Case Western Reserve University. She is a member of the National Dance Education Organization and the International Association for Dance Medicine and Science.

A Guggenheim Fellow, Porter is the recipient of a Rockefeller Foundation Residency in Italy at The Bellagio Center, and several National Endowment for the Arts Choreography Fellowships, New Jersey State Council for the Arts Choreography Fellowships, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Awards and NewMusicUSA Awards. She has received commissions from The American Dance Festival, Dance Theater Workshop’s First Light Project, The 92nd St Y Harkness Dance Festival, Art Matters, Meet The Composer, VOGUE Magazine, University Dance Companies, and Domino’s Pizza Company. Porter has an MA in Dance from Ohio State, a BA in Mathematics from The College of New Rochelle, and is a Laban Movement Analyst. Contact her at Claire@cportables.com.

PORTABLES

Claire Porter's PORTABLES are a series of solo comedic movement monologues performed individually and in concert. Each is typically 12 minutes long and there are typically 5 or 6 PORTABLES in a concert. New to PORTABLES is Namely, Muscles, Claire's one-hour, one-woman, seriously silly play about muscles.

PORTABLES also includes group theater dance pieces scripted and focused on a particular theme and reflecting the uniqueness of the individual's performing theme.

In PORTABLES Claire pulls apart what seems to be normal and then puts it all back together in funny, absurd, touching pieces. These pieces are often performed for special events such as fund raisers, weddings, building dedications, arts council meetings, garden events, art gallery events, music events, university meetings, and more.