Linda Ryan

Linda Ryan (she/her) is a dancer, movement educator, and filmmaker based in Lenapehoking / Brooklyn NY. Her work pulls from movement, video art, and social practice to explore vision & attention under the digital-first structures of surveillance capitalism. Linda holds a BA in dance from The George Washington University, where she studied under Dana Tai Soon Burgess, Maida Withers, Anthony Gongora, and Matt Reeves. She is a former artist-in-residence at BRICLab, PlySpace, Keshet Dance+Center for the Arts, Alfred University’s Institute for Electronic Arts, and Nimbus Dance Company’s OFFLINE Thrive performance series. Her work has been shown at BRIC, Brooklyn Museum (New York, NY); SMUSH Gallery, Nimbus Dance Theater (Jersey City, NJ); the Burchfield Penney Arts Center (Buffalo, NY); the TSI/Harland Snodgrass Gallery (Alfred, NY); PlySpace Gallery, Cornerstone Center for the Arts (Muncie, IN). She has performed in others’ work at Baryshnikov Arts Center, Mark Morris Dance Center, The Tank (New York, NY); National Building Museum, Dance Place, Arts Club of Washington, Georgetown French Market (Washington, DC); IKEA (College Park, MD). She served as co-chair of the Dance/NYC Junior Committee from 2020-2021, where she facilitated critical dialogue on cultural equity in the dance community. She has presented her work in dance/technology at the National Dance Educators Organization (NDEO) annual conference and the 7th International Conference on Movement in Computing (MOCO).

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