Biography
Abigail Mosier (she/her) is a dance artist, choreographer, and educator currently based in Philadelphia, PA. Abigail is a University of the Arts honors student pursuing her BFA in dance under the direction of Donna Faye Burchfield. Alongside her BFA, Abigail will hold minors in business and creative writing and three teaching certificates: Pilates Matwork, The Franklin Method®: Pelvic Floor Fascia, and The Franklin Method®: The Art and Science of the Plié. Abigail has performed in works by Bill T. Jones, Jessie Zaritt, Katie Swords-Thurman, Mark Caserta and Mikey Morado, Shayla-Vie Jenkins, and Tommie-Waheed Evans. She has also studied closely under the mentorship of Pearlann Porter and Shannon Murphy. Additionally, Abigail has studied through the Santa Reparata International School of Art in Florence, Italy where she participated in various artist residencies and curated site-specific, collaborative, experimental performance art installations across Florence, Naples, Rome, and Tuscany.
Artist Statement
I like to think of dance as a portal in which the world unfolds. Edges dissipate, time warps, and I become omnidirectional. You’re there too. With porous skin, we transpose into the multiverse. At a listening pace, we peel back the rind and reveal what’s tender. Here, we find ourselves by losing our place. An improvised journey toward stillness, an ineffable experiment on the now. I dance as a meditation on the occasion of our aliveness. Spending time with oceans and stars, I’m interested in the energetics of mass. I research people’s eyes. I’m in search of entities that widen the persona of who dance is. I look to stretch the raw body across an atmosphere of light that engages the senses in physicalized poetry. I aim to make art in the manner in which I wish to live: in curiosity, in freedom, and in awe.
