Sonsherée and Megan have been making dances together since 2016! Here is a bit more info about them:
Sonsherée Giles (she/her) is a dancer, choreographer, teacher, and costume designer. Originally from New Orleans, Louisiana, she moved to the San Francisco Bay Area to attend Mills College and received an MFA in performance/choreography. She enjoys making dances based on observations of animals, landscapes, art history, and daily life experiences. From 2005-2021, she worked for AXIS Dance Company as a performing/teaching artist, rehearsal director and associate director. She has shared her choreography, taught dance and performed for audiences in the United States, Germany, Croatia, Slovenia, Austria, Russia, Scotland, Canada, China, and Japan. Sonsherée received an Isadora Duncan Award for ensemble performance, and a Homer Avila Award for Excellence in the field of integrated dance. ~
www.Sonsheree.com
Megan Lowe (she/they) is a dancer, choreographer, performer, aerialist, singer-songwriter, filmmaker, teacher, and administrator of Chinese and Irish descent, making dance art in the San Francisco Bay Area, situated on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone land. Her creations through Megan Lowe Dances explore complex identities and experiences by tackling unusual physical situations and inventing compelling solutions, opening up the imagination to what is possible. Her recent choreographic works have been seen at ODC, de Young Museum, Legion of Honor Museum, and The Annex, as well as in SF Trolley Dances, the United States of Asian America Festival, CAAMFest, and on KQED Live. She won an Izzie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Performance - Ensemble for “HOME(in)STEAD”, a site-specific dance she created with Johnny Huy Nguyen at the historical David Ireland House / 500 Capp Street. Megan has performed with Flyaway Productions, Lenora Lee Dance, Dance Brigade, Scott Wells & Dancers, Lizz Roman & Dancers, Epiphany Productions, and more. She is a teaching/choreographing artist for Joe Goode Performance Group, Bandaloop, Flyaway, and her alma mater Theater, Dance, & Performance Studies at UC Berkeley, where she currently works as the Program Associate. Check out more about Megan at
www.MeganLoweDances.com.
