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Ben Pryor
(Ben pr-AY-er)
He/Him/His
National Dance Project Advisor
Director of Touring & Artistic Operations
A.I.M by Kyle Abraham
Land of the Osage, Monongahela, and Shawandasse Tulsa People (Pittsburgh, PA); Land of the Canarsie and Munsee Lenape Peoples (Brooklyn, NY); Land of the Matinecock (Glen Cove, NY)
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 Programming Director for Kelly Strayhorn Theater in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Pryor is currently Director of Touring & Artistic Operations for A.I.M by Kyle Abraham. tbsp.info for more.
Photo by Scott Shaw