Guest Faculty - 2019 & 2021 Summer Intensive
Genevieve Carson is a director, choreographer, dancer, and educator originally from Juneau, Alaska who now resides in Los Angeles. Genevieve’s work has spanned across North America, the Philippines, Argentina, Sweden and New Zealand.
She has worked extensively as a choreographer and director in both the commercial and concert dance worlds, and she held the Artistic Directorship of LA Contemporary Dance Company (LACDC) from 2016-2020. Her work is often focused on the human condition. She approaches her dancers as unique individuals in each process, aiming to expose the distinctive vulnerabilities, quirks, and beautiful idiosyncrasies that each performer possesses, while challenging them and pushing them out of their comfort zone. Ultimately, her goal is to connect with audiences on a deeper level, exposing the imperfections and the magic of the wonderfully profound world we live in. The result is oftentimes bittersweet – a delicate blend of humor and heartbreak.
Her work has been commissioned and produced by the US Embassies of Buenos Aires and Auckland, ODC Theater, LACDC, The Luckman Fine Arts Complex, UC Santa Barbara, the LA Convention Center, Musco Center for the Arts, Coachella Valley Repertory Theater, UC Irvine, the Mall of Asia Arena, Dance Camera West, Laguna Dance Festival, the Standard Hotel, and FORD Amphitheater. Her award-winning dance film work has been screened at a multitude of festivals, including Cannes Film Festival and Mexico City Videodance Festival . Her commercial choreographic collaborations include Foster the People, Earth Harp Collective (for Super Bowl XLIX), Funny or Die, Adult Swim and Comedy Central. Additional commercial credits include the Emmys, Samsung, BENCH, Cotton On, TEDx, Saks 5th Avenue, Hikvision USA and music videos for Justin Bieber, Active Child, Blood Orange, K -Pop star Sulli, Low, Saint Motel, Vitamin String Quartet and French pop artist TESS. In 2018, she had the wonderful opportunity to choreograph Orpheus Project's "The Princess Sophia" Opera, which featured LACDC dancers along with Juneau Dance Theater students.
As a dancer, she has had the honor of working with LACDC, String Theory Productions, AXIOM, Rosanna Gamson/Worldwide, kDub Dance, The Big Show Company, Lula Washington Dance Theatre, and Pappas and Dancers.
With a strong passion for cultivating a healthy and nurturing environment for the next generation of dance artists, Genevieve dedicates much of her time to teaching and mentoring young dancers and choreographers through training programs and workshops. In 2019, she established L.A. Contemporary Choreography Lab for L.A,. Contemporary Dance Company, a program designed to provide aspiring choreographers the opportunity to workshop new material with professional dancers in an intimate environment with one on one mentorship.
She has been a guest lecturer and instructor at Chapman University, Cal Arts, Cal State Long Beach, UC Santa Barbara, University of Auckland, University of the Philippines, and Peridance Studios in NYC. Additionally, she has been on faculty at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA) since 2012, where she teaches technique and composition classes and directs concerts.
Genevieve graduated Cum Laude with a BFA in Dance Performance from Chapman University.
