Bio

Georgia Patterson is a dancer, artist, and administrator from the Chicago area. Her work examines the role of the Western canon in dance creation and aesthetics and seeks to undermine these modalities of creation. Patterson primarily works through embodied research to produce physical performances and screen dances. She is pursuing her passion for art through her graduate studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, working towards her Masters in Arts Administration and Policy. Patterson graduated in 2021 with a BFA in Modern Dance and a minor in Art History from the University of Utah. She is currently working on her graduate thesis, which will be presented in the spring of 2023. 

Throughout her life, she has been involved in various dance works and participated in multiple showcases. Her training consisted of closely studying under Bea Rashid, Mike Gosney, Julie Cartier, and many more artists and educators based in Chicago. She has trained at Orsolina 28, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, New Dialect, Ririe-Woodbury, and with other freelance artists. She also worked with the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University, and the C.A.M.P. (Chicago's Cultural Asset Mapping Project).