Maxwell Parr Perkins
Performer // Artist // Collaborator
maxwellparrperkins@gmail.com
www.linkedin.com/in/maxwellparrperkins
Education
New York University/Tisch School of the Arts - Dance; Bachelor of Fine Arts 2014
Honors and Awards
J. S. Seidman Scholarship
United States Presidential Scholar in the Arts
YoungArts Finalist in Dance
Experience
Performer - Dance In The Annex; Grand Rapids, Michigan
February 2020 – February 2020
Performance of WITH BATED BREATH: WE MOVE LIKE COLORS
Light Installation Created by RAW Design, collaboration with ATOMIC3
Choreographer/Artistic Director: Amy Wilson
Music/Percussionist: Josh Dunigan
World Winter Festival, Prismatica on Monroe
Performed at 555 Monroe Avenue, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Performer/Collaborator - Patrick O'Brien Dance Project; NYC, New York
September 2019 – November 2019
Performance of ILLICIT ACQUIREMENT
Dance Gallery Festival, Ailey Citigroup Theater
New York, New York; October 2019
LaGuardia Performing Arts Center; Long Island City
New York; November 2019
Dance Gallery Festival, Ailey Citigroup Theater
New York, New York; October 2019
LaGuardia Performing Arts Center; Long Island City
New York; November 2019
Performer/Collaborator - The Cowpie Music Festival; Caledonia, Michigan
August 2019 – August 2019
Performance of A ROOM, A VESTIGE
The 18th Annual Cowpie Music Festival
Michigan Heritage Music Association
Dancers, Natalie Nespoli Moreira and
Maxwell Parr Perkins
The 18th Annual Cowpie Music Festival
Michigan Heritage Music Association
Dancers, Natalie Nespoli Moreira and
Maxwell Parr Perkins
Performer/Collaborator - LED Boise; Boise, Idaho
January 2019 - March 2019
January 2019 - March 2019
Performance of Jabberwock; Morrison Center for the Performing Arts
Lauren Edson, Artistic Director
Performer - C5 Create With No Limits/CHICAGO IDEAS, Idea Week 2018
October 2018 - October 2018
Presentation Opening for Friday Session
Presentation Opening for Friday Session
Dance Performance at Harris Theater
C5 Create with No Limits
Jeremy Plummer, Creative Director and Choreographer
Performer - Night Out in the Parks/Dance in the Parks; City of Chicago
May 2018 - August 2018
A LOOK BACK; Choreography by Lizzie MacKenzie
BRASSY; Choreography by Becca Lemme
DUREE; Choreography by Paige Cunningham Caldarella
THIS IS WHAT COOPERATION LOOKS LIKE; Choreography by Peter Carpenter
BRASSY; Choreography by Becca Lemme
DUREE; Choreography by Paige Cunningham Caldarella
THIS IS WHAT COOPERATION LOOKS LIKE; Choreography by Peter Carpenter
Director, Katie McCann
Performer - annoDAM DANCE/Suited Magazine/FUEL
July 2017 - January 2018
'FUEL' was created to explore the complexities of feminism and examines current social conditions by fusing movement, fashion and film. Lead by 7 women and 3 men and shot on Kodak 35mm film, the motion picture intends to encapsulate these raw and vulnerable topics inconclusively, and aims to leave the audience questioning their own perspective. Directed by Amy Gardner
Performer/Dancer - NOW THIS/Samsung
July 2017 - December 2017
Samsung 360° Video; Director Bob Geile; Choreographer Chihiro Shimizu; Make-Up Artist Mimi Choi; September 2017
Dancer/Collaborator - Loni Landon Dance Project
August 2016 - August 2017
Performance of FWD>>Motion; LePoisson Rouge at Knockdown Center, Brooklyn, New York; bridging dance and music audiences in a non traditional space in one cohesive bill; Choreographer Loni Landon; August 2017
Performance of WATERFRONT; INSITU Dance Festival, Long Island City, New York; the mission is to activate public spaces through dance and create community through the arts by raising the awareness of the power of movement; Choreographer Loni Landon; July 2017
Performance of REBUILDING SANDCASTLES; Red Hook Festival, Brooklyn, New York; community based event with live music and dance festival; Choreographer Loni Landon; June 2017
Performance of FAST LOVE (World Premier); The Joyce Theater, New York, New York; NY Quadrille Series, an engagement created by renowned choreographer Lar Lubovitch and commissioned by The Joyce Theater featuring a specially constructed platform stage designed to create viewing from four sides. Following through with the spirit of “four" choreographers—Pam Tanowitz, RoseAnne Spradlin, Tere O’Connor, and Loni Landon created contemporary dance works on four sides; Choreographer Loni Landon; October 2016
Performer - Storey Pictures/Transition Project
December 2018 - January 2019
Film; CONFESSIONS is a new film by Visual Artist/Director Elliot Storey. It is the sequel to RECONCILIATION and is the second film of a planned trilogy following the character of Gabriel, son of the King and Queen of the City. This new film is loosely be based on T.S. Eliot’s landmark poem ‘The Wasteland’. CONFESSIONS will run as a feature length film and will include sculptures made by Elliot Storey and will incorporate of his 70 different music themes made over the course of the last 2 years.
Performer - NVA & GUESTS
October 2015 - April 2017
Performance at HOPE SPRINGS HIGH presented by Healix Collective; a Benefit for the People's Climate Movement; House of YES, Brooklyn, New York; Choreographer Nicole von Arx; April 2017
Performance of JAK & FOX; Pushing Progress Showcase; Salvatore Capezeio Theater, New York, New York; Choreographer Nicole von Arx; February 2017
Performance of JAK & FOX; STUFFED Judson Arts; Judson Memorial Church, New York, New York; Choreographer Nicole von Arx; February 2017
Performance of A HERO'S JOURNEY; APAP; City Center Theater, New York, New York;Choreographer Nicole von Arx; January 2017
Dancer/Collaborator - Project 44 Dance
March 2017 - June 2017
Performance of CHRISTOPHER; Jack Crystal Theater, New York, New York; Choreographer Gierre J. Godley; June 2017
Collaborator - Pressu.es Film/OTIS WALKS INTO THE WOODS
April 2016 - April 2017
Film; A Pressu.es Film produced by The Philip Johnson Glass House - site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, A Story Told Well, Ghostly International, Irene Shum and Kate Lichota; Directors Derrick Belcham and Emily Terndrup; Music written and performed by Mary Lattimore, AT THE DAM; Choreography by Emily Terndrup with Maxwell Parr Perkins
2017 ScreenDance Festival; Stockholm, Sweden
2016 Bestias Danzantes Dance Film Festival; Best International Film; Santiago, Chile
2016 San Francisco Dance Film Festival; San Francisco, California
2016 FRAME Dance Festival; London, UK
2016 Cascadia! Dance & Cinema Festival; Vancouver, BC
2016 Decatur Arts Festival - EnCORE Dance on Screen; Decatur, Georgia 2016 Braga International Dance Video Festival; Braga, Portugal
Model - Umi Akiyoshi Photography/SLIP
May 2017 - May 2017
Umi Akiyoshi, Photographer
Performer/Collaborator - LoudHoundMovement
September 2015 - April 2017
Performance of SILVERBACK; Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn, New York; Choreographers Brendan Duggan and Mallory Lynn Rosenthal; April 2017
Performance of STEM; Spring Pairings; Arts On Site, New York, New York; Choreographers Brendan Duggan and Mallory Lynn Rosenthal; March 2017
Performance of STEM; Pushing Progress Showcase; Salvatore Capezeio Theater, New York, New York; Choreographer Brendan Duggan and Mallory Lynn Rosenthal; February 2017
Performance of AT THE BOTTOM OF THE WATER // THE HEART IS HEARD MORE CLEARLY; Y Cabaret; 14th Street Y Theater, New York, New York; Choreographer Brendan Duggan; October/November 2016
Performance of IN THE PLAGUE OF DREAMS; Excognito Festival; Actors Fund Arts Center, Brooklyn, New York; Choreographers Brendan Duggan and Mallory Lynn Rosenthal; January 2016
Model - Nir Arieli | Photographer/CRAWL: Chapter 7
March 2017 - March 2017
Nir Arieli, Photographer
Photography and Dance Installation featuring works by Nir Arieli, Brendan Drake Choreography, and Dante Brown|Warehouse Dance at Industry City Distillery, Brooklyn, New York; Arieli’s images allude to identity formation, mirroring the physical and mental demands of dance training. Each image describes both the painful inner process and a redemptive outward resolution of this conflict; March 2017
Model - Brett Lindell Photography
January 2017 - June 2017
Brett Lindell, Photographer
Dancer/Choreographer - Mental Floss/HOW WE DANCE
September 2016 - September 2016
Video Feature, HOW WE DANCE; Producer Lizzie Jacobs; Choreographer Maxwell Parr Perkins; Videographers Giancario Fiorentini and Jonathan Grimm
Model - Jade Warner Photography/VOGUE ITALIA
March 2016 - July 2016
VOGUE ITALIA, PhotoVogue - Pulchritude Series
Jade Warner, Photographer
Performer - PROM Production Company/COLORS
May 2016 - May 2016
Music Video; COLORS by Michael Blume; Producer Jeremy Leibovitch; Choreographer Roya Carreras
Performer - Plastic Angel/WHILE YOU WEREN'T LOOKING
May 2016 - May 2016
360° Music Video; Plastic Angel of the Month Project - WHILE YOU WEREN'T LOOKING; Director and Choreographer Tony Bordonaro
Performer/Dancer - VICELAND with Samsung /BEYOND THE FRAME: STORYTELLING IN VIRTUAL REALITY
March 2016 - March 2016
360° Virtual Reality Video; Together Samsung and VICELAND worked with musicians, artists, and directors to create the future of storytelling in VR - BEYOND THE FRAME: STORYTELLING IN VIRTUAL REALTY; Director Gandja Monteiro; Choreographer Loni Landon
Performer/Dancer - Instaminiseries/UNBOUND
February 2016 - March 2016
Music Video for Instagram - InstaMiniSeries Episode 7 and 8 In the Fall of 2015, David Bowie gave Instagram the unique pre- release access to the music from his 28th studio album BLACK STAR allowing them to create their own visual interpretations of his songs, with no limits or preconditions on his part. UNBOUND takes the audience on a journey of evocative images inspired by the moods suggested in the album’s music, lyrics and artwork. Director Joshua Sterling Bragg; Choreographer Hollye Bynum
Model/Performer - MAVXIMINVS/ASCENSION
January 2016 - January 2016
An experimental art film that explores performance through three interconnected scenes; 2016 Festival de Cannes! Cannes Court Metrage;
Writer and Director Max R.A. Fedore
Writer and Director Max R.A. Fedore
Model - Whitney Browne Photography
November 2015 - December 2015
Whitney Browne, Photographer
Dancer/Performer - New York Magazine/THE ENEMY
September 2015 - October 2015
Dance Film; Set in Red Hook, Brooklyn, THE ENEMY, is a dance film made in reaction to on going police violence in the United States. The loose narrative have been constructed as a memorial to all of those who can no longer dance though our streets. Director Erik Madigan Heck; Choreographer Elena Vazintaris
Performer/Collaborator - An Emily Turndrup & Derrick Belcham Production/FABLE
September 2015 - October 2015
An evening-length production merging independent music, immersive dance theater and large-scale art installation, set in the sprawling 60,000-square-foot space of the Knockdown Center in Queens, NYC. Live score written and performed by Mauro Remiddi (Porcelain Raft), David Moore (Bing & Ruth) and Hannah Epperson; Directors Emily Terndrup and Derrick Belcham; Choreographer Emily Terndrup in collaboration with the dancers
Dancer - Caleb Teicher and Company/OWL JOLSEN: A BALLET
September 2015 - September 2015
Performance of OWL JOLSEN: A BALLET; Fridays at Noon; 92nd Street Y Theater, New York, New York; Curator David Parker; Choreographer Caleb Teicher
Dancer - Springboard Danse Montréal
June 2014 - June 2015
Performance of WHAT I TALK ABOUT WHEN I TALK ABOUT CREATING;
Göteborg Opera Danskompani; Choreographer Stephan Laks; June 2015 Performance of GUNCOTTON; New Dialect; Choreographer Banning Bouldin; June 2015
Performance of EMPIRICAL QUOTIENT (excerpt); RUBBERBAND; Choreographer Victor Quijad; June 2014
Performance of SOMEWHERE; MADBOOTS DANCE; Choreographers Jonathan Campbell and Austin Diaz; June 2014
Dancer/Collaborator - Danielle Russo Performance Project
March 2014 - June 2015
Performance of SINCE THOU WAST PRECIOUS IN MY SIGHT; Dance2Dance; ArtHelix, Brooklyn, New York; Choreographer Danielle Russo; April 2015
Performance of BELOVED; Inception to Exhibition - Second Annual Dance Festival; Theater 54, New York, New York; Choreographer Danielle Russo; March 2015
Performance of SINCE THOU WAST PRECIOUS IN MY SIGHT - (un)SCENE Armory Art Week; Park Avenue Armory New York, New York; Choreographer Danielle Russo; March 2015
Performance of SINCE THOU WAST PRECIOUS IN MY SIGHT - HOME AUDIO! Brooklyn, New York; Choreographer Danielle Russo; February 2015
Performance of BELOVED; Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn, New York; Choreographer Danielle Russo; September 2014
Dancer - David Flores Productions/FIND A WAY OUT
May 2015 - May 2015
Film Project; Lotus Dance Project; Producer and Photographer David Flores
Dancer/Performer - Ga(y)ze Project
April 2015 - April 2015
Interdisciplinary, live, interactive, Site-Specific Production presented by NYU Steinhardt, ArtEd; New York, New York; Director Joe Salvatore; Choreographer Caleb Teicher
Dancer/Collaborator - Isodoc Dance Group/CUT CRAWLERS
September 2014 - February 2015
Performance of CUT CRAWLERS; Center of Performance Research, Brooklyn, New York; Choreographer Jeffrey Domimo
Performer/Collaborator - National YoungArts Foundation/IS THE SKY FALLING
January 2015 - January 2015
Performance of IS THE SKY FALLING; YoungArts Week - Backyard Ball and Gala; YoungArts, Miami, Florida; Alumni Performance; Director Bill T. Jones
Dancer/Collaborator - Indah Walsh Dance Company/TIME WITHOUT LIGHT
November 2014 - December 2014
Performance of TIME WITHOUT LIGHT; American Dance Guild Festival; The Ailey City Group Theater, New York, New York;
Choreographer Indah M. Walsh
Model - Lois Greenfield Photography/Photography Workshop
October 2014 - October 2014
Lois Greenfield, Photographer/Teacher
Dancer/Performer - Opera Lafayette/Les Fetes de l'Hymen et de l'Amour
August 2014 - October 2014
Performances of Les Fetes de l'Hymen et de l'Amour; The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts/Concert Hall, Washington DC and The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts/ Rose Hall,New York, New York; Sean Curran Company - Guest Artist; Choreographer Sean Curran; October 2014
Performer/Collaborator - Mary John Frank/DEBUTAUNT
August 2014 - October 2014
Interactive dance, live installation, film project Kings County Distillery - The Brooklyn Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York; Director Mary John Frank
Dancer - E|N|Z|A Dance Company/SOME BLOOM IN DARKNESS
July 2014 - August 2014
Performance of SOME BLOOM IN DARKNESS; The Current Sessions The Wild Project, New York, New York; Choreographer Enza DePalma; August 2014
NYU Tisch School of the Arts and Second Avenue Dance Company
September 2011 - May 2014
Giada Ferrone - SADC Director
2014-2013 - NYU Tisch Dance, SADC
Performances of DARK MATTERS excerpts; Choreographer Crystal Pite/staged by Cindy Salgado
Performances of CONVERSATIONS excerpts; Choreographer Nathan Trice
Performances of BLOW; Choreographer Bailey Moon
Performances of TIME WITHOUT LIGHT; Choreographer Indah M. Walsh
Performed in various Tisch choreography by Bailey Moon, Meghann Bronson, Isabella Fields, Benjamin Freedman, Rachel Hagen, Natasha Mynhier, Justin Rivera, Ashley Robicheaux, Scott Stampone, Indah M. Walsh, Kay Cummings
September 2012 - May 2014
f o r w a r d.
Choreographer Maxwell Parr Perkins; Original Music by Byron J. Wu
ALT
Co-Choreographers Maxwell Parr Perkins and Shantel Prado
CLASH
Choreographer Maxwell Parr Perkins
Dancer/Performer - Mary John Frank/THESE HILLS ARE ALIVE
May 2013 - June 2013
This Von Trapp zombie parody was shot in Salzburg, Austria, in many of the original Sound of Music locations; SeneReye Productions; Director Mary John Frank
Performer/Collaborator - National YoungArts Foundation/AN AFFAIR OF THE ARTS
January 2013 - January 2013
National YoungArts Foundation; YoungArts Alumni Performance; Gusman Center for the Performing Arts - Olympia Theater, Miami, Florida; Producer/Director Joe Salvador
Dancer - Nodes Performing Arts Dance/PERVASIVE GOSSIP
November 2012 - November 2012
Performance of PERVASIVE GOSSIP; James and Martha Duffy Performance Space, Brookyln, New York; Composer Conrad Winslow; Choreographer Selina Chau
Dancer - MADBOOTS DANCE/FAKERS
October 2012 - October 2012
Performance of fakers; MEN Dance Festival; Salvatore Capezio Theater, New York, New York; Choreographers Jonathan Campbell and Austin Diaz
Dancer- MADBOOTS DANCE/FAKERS
October 2012 - October 2012
Performance of fakers; Inception to Exhibition Showcase; Red Bean Studio, New York, New York; Choreographers Jonathan Campbell and Austin Diaz
Dancer - CEMA dance/CARRIED
March 2012 - March 2012
Performance of CARRIED; Perceptions Contemporary Dance Festival; Triskelion Arts - Adous Theater, Brooklyn, New York; Choreographer Rachel Hagan
Dancer - Dance for Life/STAND BY ME and EVOLUTION OF A DREAM
2011 August 2011 - August 2011
Performance of STAND BY ME; Choreographer Randy Duncan Performance of EVOLUTION OF A DREAM; Guest Artist - River North Chicago Dance Company; Choreographer Sherry Zunker Auditorium Theater, Chicago Illinois
Dancer/Collaborator - National YoungArts Foundation/SALUTE TO THE U.S. PRESIDENTIAL SCHOLARS
June 2011 - June 2011
Salute to the 2011 U.S. Presidential Scholars Performance; Producer Heidi Miami Marshall
Performance of TUBA SOLO; Choreographer Maxwell Parr Perkins
Performance of SYNDROME OF SUBJECTIVES; Choreographers Maxwell Parr Perkins and Blake Krapels
Dancer/Collaborator - National YoungArts Foundation/ IN and OUT of the Studio
April 2011 - April 2011
Performances at:
Frank Sinatra High School; Queens, New York
El Puenta Academy for Peace & Justice; Brooklyn, New York
El Puenta Williamsburg Youth Leadership Center; Brooklyn, New York
Dancer - National YoungArts Foundation/MORNING PASSAGES
January 2011 - January 2011
YoungArts Week Dance Performance; Gusman Center of the Performing Arts; Miami, Florida; Choreographer Lizzie MacKenzie
Dancer - Elements Contemporary Ballet/FALLEN
October 2010 - October 2010
Performance of FALLEN, In This Place Dance Festival; Ruth Page Center for the Arts, Chicago, Illinois; Choreographer James Gregg
Dancer - Elements Contemporary Ballet/FALLEN
October 2010 - October 2010
Performance of FALLEN; Prodigy Series Dance Festival; Ruth Page Center for the Arts, Chicago, Illinois; Choreographer James Gregg
Dancer - Dance for Life/I'VE GOT A LIFE
August 2010 - August 2010
Performance of I'VE GOT A LIFE; Harris Theater, Chicago, Illinois; Choreographer Harrison McEldowney
Dancer - Elements Contemporary Ballet/ANGEL
March 2010 - March 2010
Performance of ANGEL; Harvest Chicago Contemporary Dance Festival; Ruth Page Center for the Arts, Chicago, Illinois; Choreographer Joseph Caruana
Training
2014 - 2015 Springboard Dance Montreal; Montreal, Canada
2013 - 2013 SEAD - Salzburg Experimential Academy of Dance; Salzburg, Austria
2013 - 2013 Hubbard Street Dance Chicago; Winter Choreography Intensive; Summer Intensive; Chicago, Illinois
2013 - 2013 Sidra Bell Dance New York; Apprentice; New York, New York
2012 - 2012 MIP - Movement Invention Project; Summer Intensive; New York, New York
2010 - 2011 River North Chicago Dance Company; Apprenticeship; Chicago, Illinois
2011 - 2011 Lou Conte Dance Studio; LCD Summer Scholarship; Chicago, Illinois
2008 - 2011 Extensions Dance Company, Pre-Professional Dance Company; Chicago, Illinois
2009 - 2010 The Juilliard School; Summer Intensive; New York, New York
2010 - 2010 American Ballet Theatre; Collegiate Summer Intensive; New York, New York
2009 - 2009 San Francisco Ballet; Summer Intensive; Scholarship; San Francisco, California
2008 - 2010 River North Chicago Dance Company; Summer Intensive and Invited Artist Program; Chicago, Illinois
2008 - 2009 Joffrey Dance Academy, Pre-Professional Program; Scholarship; Chicago, Illinois
2008 - 2008 The Harid Conservatory; Summer Program; Boca Raton, Florida
2003 - 2008 Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago; Chicago, Illinois
2007 - 2007 Milwaukee Ballet; Summer Program; Scholarship; Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2006 - 2006 Interlochen Center for the Arts; Summer Program; Interlochen, Michigan
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