Michelle Boulé is a dance artist, teacher, and BodyTalk practitioner based in New York. She has been performing and teaching internationally over the last 13 years. Since 2001 she has worked with Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People and in 2010 received a New York Dance and Performance Award “Bessie” for her performance and creative collaboration in Last Meadow by Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People. She has also worked with the Deborah Hay Dance Company (William Forsythe commission If I Sing to You), John Scott’s Irish Modern Dance Theatre, David Wampach, John Jasperse, Neal Medlyn, Liz Santoro, Neal Beasley, Donna Uchizono, Christine Elmo, Beth Gill, Judith Sanchez-Ruiz, Doug Varone (Metropolitan Opera Ballet, Opera Colorado), and Gabriel Masson. She is part of the teaching faculty in New York at the New School University and at Movement Research, where she is also a member of the Artists Advisory Council. Some recent teaching experiences include Tsekh (Moscow, Russia); Danzalab (Tenerife, Spain); LaborGras (Berlin, Germany); Dancehouse (Dublin, Ireland); University of Calgary (Alberta, Canada); American Dance Festival NY (NY, NY); Chunky Move, Dancehouse, and Victoria College for the Arts (Melbourne, Australia); Series 8:08 (Toronto, Canada); Oberlin Dance Collective (San Francisco, CA); and the TBA Festival (Portland, OR). She has been a faculty/artist-in-residence at Hollins University (Roanoke, VA) and the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign, IL). She participated in the SKITE artists residency in Caen, France in 2010, and in 2002, she was a DanceWeb scholarship recipient at Impulstanz in Vienna. Her choreogarphy has been shown work in New York at The Kitchen, Center for Performance Research, Movement Research Festival at Judson Church, P.S. 122′s hothouse, Danspace Project’s Food for Thought, Catch Performance Series, and at the Krannert Center in Illinois and the University of Utah. She received an Emerging Artist Commission from Issue Project Room (Brooklyn, NY), where she will be showing a new solo in Nov 2012.
Michelle became a Certified BodyTalk Practitioner after finding that BodyTalk addressed so many of her interests in healing in one concise, effective system. Her approach to healing is influenced by her studies of various modalities including Yuen Method, Body-Mind Centering®, Fitzmaurice Voicework, the Alexander Technique, Franklin Method, Feldenkrais Method, psychotherapy, yoga, and contemporary performance, all of which feed her continuous exploration of a greater awareness and expression of self. She also continues study through the International BodyTalk Association and has completed all of the advanced module training. She thoroughly enjoys working with clients and is grateful and inspired by witnessing their improved health, growth, creativity and change.
