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Ben Pryor
(Ben pr-AY-er)
He/Him/His
National Dance Project Advisor
Programming Director,
Kelly Strayhorn Theater
Location: Land of the Osage, Monongahela, and Shawandasse Tulsa People (Pittsburgh, PA)
Biography
Ben Pryor is invested in artists working across performative practices who challenge the boundaries of artistic forms and normative contexts, believing in excess, refusal, transformation, and transcendence. Since 2009 Pryor has worked with artists to build and tour evening-length performances, collaborating with 83 museums, festivals, and cultural institutions in 54 cities across 16 countries. Pryor has initiated curatorial projects including Festival TBD: Emergency Glitter and American Realness, "New York's preëminent sampler for boundary-pushing performance bordering on dance." - The New Yorker. Pryor has curated programs for Centre National de la Danse (Pantin, France), Théâtre Garonne (Toulouse, France), Les Subsistances (Lyon, France), Wiener Festwochen (Vienna, Austria), and Hollins University MFA Dance program (Roanoke, Virginia). He previously worked as Director of Performance and Residency Programs for Gibney in New York City and is currently Programming Director for Kelly Strayhorn Theater in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. tbsp.info for more.
Photo by Scott Shaw