Gregory King

Gregory King received his MFA in choreographic practice and theory from Southern Methodist University. He has performed with The Washington Ballet, Erick Hawkins Dance Company, The Metropolitan Opera Ballet, and Disney’s The Lion King on Broadway. His writings have appeared in Stage of Reckoning (Routledge, 2022), Africa, Caribbean, and Black People’s RESILIENCE During Covid-19 (Demeter Press, 2023), Dance Magazine, and ThINKingDANCE. In 2021, he launched the Decolonizing Dance Writing: International Exchange Project, bringing together artists from Peru, Columbia, Sri Lanka, New Zealand, and Ghana to explore non-Western dance practices. Currently, King is the inaugural Assistant Provost for Faculty Development at California Institute of the Arts and is completing his doctoral studies in Interprofessional Leadership at Kent State University.