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Doug Gillespie<br />
Douglas Gillespie (Guest Choreographer) is a Brooklyn-based artist involved in<br />
the making, teaching, and embodying of dance as an art form. Gillespie is an avid<br />
dance maker, choreographing group works for Moving Current <strong>Dance</strong> Collective,<br />
Doug Varone DEVICES, and Sarasota<br />
Contemporary <strong>Dance</strong>. He has also<br />
created his own student commissions<br />
for Hillsborough Community College,<br />
Cleveland State University, University<br />
of Florida, and Santa Fe College; two<br />
of these works have premiered at<br />
American College <strong>Dance</strong> Association.<br />
In 2015, Gillespie created his first solo<br />
project, Echo, for Assembly <strong>Dance</strong><br />
Theatre in Taipei, Taiwan, which had its<br />
U.S. debut in 2016. Gillespie was an originating member and creative contributor<br />
throughout Kate Weare Company’s first decade, and he currently serves as a Guest<br />
Artist, teaching on behalf of the company and assisting on commissions. Gillespie<br />
also teaches at colleges and dance centers around the world, most recently at<br />
The Juilliard School, NYU Tisch Summer <strong>Program</strong>, Mark Morris <strong>Dance</strong> Group, and<br />
National Taiwan University of the Arts, and he is on faculty at Gibney <strong>Dance</strong> Center<br />
in New York. He has performed in Punchdrunk Emursive’s Sleep No More and<br />
Third Rail Projects’ Then She Fell. Gillespie was born in San Diego, CA, raised in<br />
Jacksonville, FL, and received his BFA in dance from Florida State University in 2005.<br />
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