Morgan Walker

Teaches: Int/Adv Contemporary

Morgan Walker is a movement artist, choreographer, teacher, and director. She is currently the Rehearsal Director and a full-time company member with The Dancing Wheels Company where she teaches modern dance technique and contemporary styles. Morgan holds a B.F.A. in Dance Performance and Choreography from Kent State University. Post-graduation she moved to New York, NY to extensively train on scholarship at The Ailey School in contemporary dance, floor work, improvisation, and Horton Technique.
Morgan trained at The Ailey School from 2018-2019 while concurrently performing on tour with Cardell Dance Theater where she worked with choreographer Silvana Cardell. She later joined The Dancing Wheels Company as a full-time company dancer in July of 2019. Additional training has included lucrative summers at The Ailey School, José Limón Dance Intensive, Jon Lehrer Dance Intensive, Openflr International Dance Exchange, dance labs with Tiffany Mills and Nichole Canuso, The Dancing Wheels Company summer intensive, and professional and collegiate residencies with choreographers such as Ray Mercer, Gregory King, Ronald K. Brown, Silvana Cardell, Catherine Meredith, Stephanie Martinez, Shumpei Nemoto and Jamal White. Morgan’s performing has reached throughout the U.S., Italy,
Dominican Republic, China, and Mexico. Prior to moving to New York, she was a full-time member of the Kent Dance Ensemble at Kent State University. Training nationally and internationally with the company, she performed lead roles in works such as Stephanie Martinez’s “Rekonstruktion” in 2016, Gregory King’s “Strange Invisible Perfume” in 2017, and Ronald K. Brown’s “Gatekeepers” in 2018. Throughout her studies at Kent State, Morgan experimented with the medium of dance performance art in site-specific spaces. She created the works “De-Fault” in 2016, “Oxygen” in 2017, and “SCUM” in 2018. “De-Fault” and “Oxygen” were both selected by Kent State University dance division faculty to present at the American College Dance Festival regional conferences in 2017 and 2018. Her time at Kent State also included co-directing Faculty Dance Concert: Dance ’17 Mosaic in 2017, Student Dance Festival Concert: Il-um-in-ate from 2016-2017, and BFA Dance Concert: Roots to Wings from 2017-2018.

As a choreographer, her work has been commissioned by Kent State University, Bellingham Repertory Dance (WA), the Dancing Wheels Company, Mark DeGarmo Virtual International Arts Festival (NYC), Ohio Dance Festival, Contemporary Dance Choreography Festival (FL), Trifecta Dance Collective Choreographer Showcase (IL), Detroit Dance Festival (MI), and regional and national American College Dance Association Conferences. Most recently, Morgan was commissioned by Kent State University to create a solo work on a BFA Senior to be performed in April 2023 and recommissioned by the Dancing Wheels Company to set a work on the company to perform this
spring. In addition, her work, inside Outsider (originally set and premiered in 2021), has been commissioned and set on the dancers of Bellingham Repertory Company in Seattle, WA.
Currently, Morgan is preparing to present work at the Detroit Dance Festival in Detroit, MI, and continues her work as Rehearsal Director and full-time company member at the Dancing Wheels Company.