Will Rawls

Will Rawls
Nationality	American
Awards	2015 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award 2014 Process Space Residency, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council 2013 MacDowell Colony Fellowship 2012 Harlem Stage Fund for New Work 2010 2011 Mount Tremper Arts Residency and Performance 2009 2010 Studio Series Residency, Dance Theater Workshop 2008 New York Times, Best Performers of the Year 2008 danceWEB Europe Scholarship to ImPulsTanz Festival 2000 Class Speaker Elect at Williams College Commencement Exercises 2000 Dewey Prize for Public Speaking at Commencement Exercises 2000 Williams College Hubbard Hutchinson Fellowship in the Arts
Website	www.willrawls.com/

2015 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award

2014 Process Space Residency, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council

2013 MacDowell Colony Fellowship

2012 Harlem Stage Fund for New Work

2010 2011 Mount Tremper Arts Residency and Performance

2009 2010 Studio Series Residency, Dance Theater Workshop

2008 New York Times, Best Performers of the Year

2008 danceWEB Europe Scholarship to ImPulsTanz Festival

2000 Class Speaker Elect at Williams College Commencement Exercises

2000 Dewey Prize for Public Speaking at Commencement Exercises

Will Rawls is an American contemporary choreographer, performance artist, curator and writer based in New York City and with continuing projects in Europe. He has choreographed solo works and group works as well as danced professionally with established dance companies. He is also one half of the performance art collaborative, Dance Gang, with Kennis Hawkins.

Will Rawls is currently the co-editor with Abigail Levine at Critical Correspondence, a web publication of the Center for Movement Research.

Dance Gang is an American performance art duo made up of Will Rawls and Kennis Hawkins started in 2006 in New York City.

The two, both over six feet tall, met in 2004 as fellow dancers in Shen Wei Dance Arts and then started their own project. Dance Gang began with playful dance interventions in public spaces and then continued into short and full-length site-specific choreographed works. They performed an hour-long site-specific work, "Dog Free" in the River to River Festival in 2009, shorter works with Neal Medlyn, a performance to Beyoncé's 'All the Single Ladies' at Joe's Pub, and to Kanye West's "Bad News" track from 808 and Heartbreaks, a work at the Ise Cultural Foundation as part of "In Pursuit: Art on Dating," and others.

Triple Canopy's presentation of Will Rawls' work with scholar and Performa associate curator Adrienne Edwards to discuss relationships between objects, animal figures, and blackness in performance.

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