Heather Harrington

Heather Harrington received her BA in Psychology from Boston University and MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has been on faculty at Kean, Seton Hall University, and Drew University. She danced with the Martha Graham Ensemble, Pearl Lang Dance Theater, and Lewitzky Dance Company, and created her own modern dance company in NYC performing nationally and internationally. Being drawn to movement in the public space inspired her to choreograph site-specific work, from creating a piece on the steps of the Federal Hall Memorial NYC, to staging a gun violence protest in Newark, NJ. She has been a resident choreographer for The Yard’s Bessie Schonberg Choreographers and Dancers Residency, Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, and the Hotel Pupik series in Austria. Her artistic and scholarly collaboration with Lebanese dance artist and professor Nadra Assaf has led to performances and conferences across the globe. She was invited by Dancers Citizens South in Tunisia in 2023, with the support of the US Embassy, to create a piece raising awareness of violence against women that was performed in the north and south of Tunisia. Her scholarship examining gender and dance, dance as protest, the choreographic process, and dance in the MENA region has been published by Choreographic Practices, Dancer Citizen, Research in Dance Education, Nordic Journal of Dance, Journal of Dance Education, and Dance Education in Practice.