Gregory King is a culturally responsive educator, performance artist, activist, and movement maker who received his MFA in choreographic practice and theory from Southern Methodist University and is certified in Elementary Labanotation from the Dance Notation Bureau. His dance training began at the Washington Ballet and continued at Dance Theatre of Harlem. He has participated in the Horton Project in conjunction with the Library of Congress, and has performed with The Washington Ballet, Erick Hawkins Dance Company, New York Theatre
Ballet, Donald Byrd /The Group, The Metropolitan Opera Ballet, New York City Opera, and Disney’s The Lion King on Broadway.
As a choreographer his works have been presented at The Joyce, Playhouse Square, and The Kennedy Center. He has served as dance faculty for Texas Ballet Theatre and Boston Ballet, as well as assistant professor of dance at Temple University, and Swarthmore College. Recently Mr. King was awarded tenure and promoted to associate professor at Kent State University, where he served as director of the Kent Dance Ensemble for 5 years. King is a dance writer for Dance Magazine, Jacob’s Pillow, Gibney, thINKingDANCE, The Philadelphia Dance Journal, CHOICE Review and Broad Street Review.
King’s activism work has been written about and reviewed nationally, with his response to the Dancing for Justice Philadelphia event being cited in the U. S. Department of Arts and Culture’s new resource guide, “Art Became the Oxygen.” He received over $13,000 to launch the Decolonizing Dance Writing; International Exchange Project, bringing together artists from Peru, Columbia, Sri Lanka, New Zealand, and Ghana, to share their practices, and discourse about teaching and learning dance through a non-Western lens.
King is the recipient of numerous awards including an Excellence in Teaching Award, a Faculty Recognition Award, the Outstanding Creative Contribution Award from the Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Kent State University, and has served as Provost Faculty Associate. In 2022, King served as Keynote speaker, leading conversations on institutional support for BIPoc faculty and students of color, at Indiana University, Virginia Commonwealth University, Montclair State University, and University of Auckland, New Zealand. In addition to having served on the dance review board for the Ohio Arts Council and National Endowment for the Arts, King was nominated for a Governor’s Award for the Arts in Ohio.
Mr. King is thrilled to be the inaugural Assistant Provost for Faculty Development at California Institute of the Arts and is completing his doctoral studies in Interprofessional Leadership with a concentration in Curriculum and Instruction.
