BA in Dance Brigham Young University

Office: MCD 203
Email: roxanne.gray@utah.edu

Roxanne Gray (she/her) is a Latina Salt Lake City-based independent choreographer, performer, teaching artist, and curator. She is a current Modern Dance MFA Candidate and Graduate Teaching Assistant. Her current research centers on exploring Chicanx borderland identities through folklórico and modern dance. Gray is also the Co-Founder, Director, and Curator of 801 Salon, a multidisciplinary arts and performance series in Salt Lake City, and the Founder/Director of PlayGround Dance Project, a choreographic flash incubator.

Her creative work has been presented at LEVYdance, Shawl-Anderson Dance Center, California Academy of Sciences, Mission Dance Theater, Studio Azul, and SAFEhouse for the Performing Arts (San Francisco, Bay Area); as well as Covey Center for the Arts, LDM Movement Lab, Clubhouse, Material Contemporary, Finch Lane Gallery, and 801 Salon (Salt Lake City, UT). Additionally, her films have been screened at Utah Dance Film Festival, 12 Minutes Max, Noori Screendance Festival, Twig Media Lab, EXPS/SLC, and Salt Lake City Film Society (Salt Lake City, UT); as well as Cinnevox Dance Film Festival (Portland, OR). She has also received choreographic commissions from Utah Metropolitan Ballet and Wasatch Contemporary Dance Company. In 2023, she was awarded the Artist Career Empowerment Grant from the Salt Lake City Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.