Moscelyne ParkeHarrison's amazing career 10 years after
Moscelyne ParkeHarrison is the Associate Artistic Director, Company Dancer and Resident Choreographer of Post:ballet, and co-director of BODYSONNET. She is a graduate of The Juilliard School (’19) where she received the Joseph W. Polisi Award for Artist as Citizen. Moscelyne pursued additional training at Hubbard Street Pro (’20) and Walnut Hill School for the Arts (’15) and summer workshops including b12, Banff Centre for the Arts, and Jacob’s Pillow.
While attending Juilliard Moscelyne created a number of works on her peers, one of which was Zoroastre. This work was in collaboration with the Historical Performance Department’s orchestra: Juilliard415. The piece premiered at Alice Tully Hall in 2018 with a live orchestra playing music by Rameau.
Moscelyne dances professionally on the East and West Coast with Post:ballet, Liss Fain Dance, and Deborah Slater Dance Theater. She has also worked professionally with Sharp & Fine, David Michalek, Francesca Harper, Liz Gerring, and Helen Simoneau. She is director of NEFA and MassCulturalCouncil award winning dance collective BODYSONNET.
Upon graduation Moscelyne established BODYSONNET with her classmates Sean Lammer and Mio Ishikawa. With the support of the AQF Fellowship the collective put on their first live performance in January 2020. The collective is now in their 4th season having produced performances, films, zines and residencies across the USA, and most recently in Cologne Germany.
Moscelyne is a current dance faculty member at Berkeley Ballet Theater, and teaches open classes at ODC and City Dance SF. She has taught workshops at Berkshire Pulse, HAVEN, UC Davis, and the Lines Trainee Program. She teaches Modern Dance Technique (informed by Graham, Cunningham, and Limon), Contemporary Technique, Improvisation Workshops, Choreographic Skills, Ballet Technique and Contemporary Ballet. She has volunteered for Dance for Parkinson's Disease. Moscelyne also develops programs and leads accessible movement classes and lecture demonstrations, including the series 'Art in the Moment' which featured a multidisciplinary group of performers and toured to hospitals, psychiatric and pediatric facilities in the Greater Manhattan Area.
Moscelyne’s choreographic works have been performed at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater, Alice Tully Hall, the Hudson Guild Theater, The Studebaker Theater (Chicago), the Foundry West Stockbridge and Triskelion Arts. She has received support and commissions from Lines Training and Summer program, Post:ballet, the Anthony Quinn Foundation, Berkshire Taconic Foundation, Metropolis Ensemble for her choreographies.
In 2023 Moscelyne was appointed the inaugural Associate Artistic Director of Post:ballet. She serves in this leadership role in addition to choreographing and dancing for Post:ballet and other project based companies.
Image by Maximillian Tortoriello.
“I often ask myself how I can be a fuller, more expressive artist. I believe the answer is within the act of creation and collaboration in discussion, experimentation, and research into the historical, societal, and conceptual ramifications of the body. I believe that the physicality of dance can be matched on emotional, and intellectual levels in order to yield work that expands beyond its own aesthetic ego and is impactful to society.
This ethos is directly informed by my work as a collaborator, and co-director of the dance collective BODYSONNET. BODYSONNET, is a group of dance makers who create site-specific works in residency style models inspired by communities where dance is not readily available.”
View Moscelyne’s choreographies: https://www.mzparkeharrison.com/choreography