Cori Olinghouse is a choreographer, improviser, and teacher based in Brooklyn, NY. As a dancer, Olinghouse performed and taught in the US and abroad with the Trisha Brown Dance Company from 2002 to 2006. During that time, she performed as a soloist at the Bolshoi Theater and worked with Trisha Brown on O Zlozony / O Composite for the Paris Opera Ballet. Olinghouse performed with Bill Irwin in the May 2008 premiere of The Happiness Lecture at the Philadelphia Theater Company. Olinghouse’s own work celebrates the plasticity and shape-shifting capacities of the body within the realms of both vernacular and abstract dance. Her dances have been presented at Judson Church, Dixon Place, Bennington College, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, Spoke the Hub, and The Movement Research Improvisation Festival. She is currently a Movement Research Artist-in-Residence for 2009/2010. Last year, Olinghouse was awarded an Outer/Space Creative Residency by Dance Theater Workshop. She studies voguing with Archie Burnett, grandfather of the House of Ninja and will become a certified teacher of the Alexander Technique in early 2010.

Photo by Aden Hakimi