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Curriculum Vitae

b. 1984, Dallas, TX 
Lives and works in Dallas, TX 
 
Education
Ongoing       
Ph.D., ABD                        Aesthetic Studies                       
 University of Texas at Dallas, Richardsonn, TX
Creative Dissertation Topic: Pizzicato Porno, Dirty Filthy Diamonds, NICE, and The Show About Men: Devised Dance Theatre Productions
Areas of Research: Dance Theatre, Modern Dance History, Performance Art, German Expression in Film, Dance, and Visual Art, Avant-Garde and Experimental Theatre Practices
2008                                             MA                                    Political Science                        University of Texas at Arlington,  Arlington, TX 
                                    
            Masters’ Thesis: The Politics of State Public Arts Funding 
  
            Areas of Research: Art Funding, Arts Education, Public Policy, Federal and State Funding for Education and the 
            Arts 
  
 
2006                                     BBA (Honors)            International Business/French            University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX 
  
  
Solo/Small Group Exhibitions (Visual Art) 
  
2015                       2015 Edinburgh Art Festival, GARAGE Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland 
                                 Small Works Member Show, Ro2 Art, Dallas, TX 
                                 365, Magnolia Theatre (with Ro2 Art), Dallas, TX 
  
2014                      #hashtag, Women and Their Work, Austin, TX 
            
2013                      L’Homme Dérangé, Eugene Binder Gallery, Marfa, TX 
  
2012                      I’m Looking Through You, Horton Gallery, New York, NY 
  
  
Curatorial Experience (Performance and Visual Art)
 
  
2013                        FLEX-US 2, Ro2 Art Downtown, Dallas, TX (IN COOPERATION WITH MUSCLE NATION) 
  
2012                        HARAKIRI: To Die For Performances, CentralTrak: University of Texas at Dallas Artist Residency, 
                   Dallas, TX 
                                 FLEX-US, Ro2 Art Downtown, Dallas, TX (IN COOPERATION WITH MUSCLE NATION) 
                                  A Fraudulent Desire to Exist, Steve Paul Gallery, Dallas, TX 
  
2011                    HELLO at 1331 Dragon (now Red Arrow Art Gallery), Dallas, TX (IN COOPERATION WITH 
                   MUSCLE NATION.A Collective)) 
  
Group Exhibitions (Visual Art) 
  
2015                 AMOA Biennial-600: Sculpture, AMARILLO MUSEUM of ART, Amarillo, Texas 
                           CHAOS, Ro2 Art, Dallas, TX 
                            EXPO 2015, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX 
  
2014                 Behind Closed Doors, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 
                            CHAOS, Ro2 Art, Dallas, TX 
                            Dallas VideoFest, Alamo Drafthouse, Richardson, TX (commissioned video for Oral Fixation) 
  
2013                 Texas Biennial, Blue Star Contemporary, San Antonio, TX 
                             Amarillo Entropy, Power Station, Dallas, TX 
                            Collective Bargaining, UT Dallas, Richardson, TX (IN COOPERATION WITH MUSCLE NATION) 
                             Available Spaces/Post Communiqué, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX (invited artist, in 
                collaboration with HOMECOMING! Committee) 
                              Delta, McKinney Avenue Contemporary (The MAC), Dallas, TX 
                              Temporary Occupants, Eastfield College, Mesquite, TX 
                               Down the Rabbit Hole,  part of the AURORA project, Dallas Arts District, Dallas, TX (performance 
                installation with Slik Stockings and Emily Loving 
                               FLEX-US 2, Ro2 Art Downtown, Dallas, TX (IN COOPERATION WITH MUSCLE NATION) 
                                EXPO 2013, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX 
  
2012                   Fast, Eastfield College, Mesquite, TX 
                        Bedding, part of the AURORA project, Dallas Arts District, Dallas, TX (performance installation with IN 
                   COOPERATION WITH MUSCLE NATION) 
                                 Dallas VideoFest, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX (performance installation and screening) 
                                 Feed Bag, Ro2 West Village, Dallas, TX (IN COOPERATION WITH MUSCLE NATION) 
                                 'N Sink, Goodyear Retread Plant, Dallas, TX (IN COOPERATION WITH MUSCLE NATION) 
                                 HARAKIRI: To Die For Performances, CentralTrak: University of Texas at Dallas Artist Residency, 
                   Dallas, TX (Slik Stockings; DGDG) 
                                 BarbARTque, CentralTrak: University of Texas at Dallas Artist Residency, Dallas, TX (IN 
                   COOPERATION WITH MUSCLE NATION) 
                                 Go West Fest, The Nest, Dallas, TX (Slik Stockings) 
                                 Lean, House on Mercedes Avenue, Dallas, TX (IN COOPERATION WITH MUSCLE NATION) 
                                 FLEX-US, Ro2 Art Downtown, Dallas, TX (IN COOPERATION WITH MUSCLE NATION) 
                                 BRIDGED, 500 Singleton Blvd, Dallas, TX (Slik Stockings) 
                                 A Fraudulent Desire to Exist, Steve Paul Gallery, Dallas, TX 
                                 The O.T., CentralTrak, University of Texas at Dallas Artist Residency, Dallas, TX 
  
2011                    Shorts Film Competition, Texas Theatre, Dallas, TX 
                                 Occupy Artopia: subversive performance, Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, TX (IN COOPERATION WITH 
                   MUSCLE NATION) 
                                 Art Con, Oak Cliff, TX (IN COOPERATION WITH MUSCLE NATION.A COLLECTIVE) 
                                 Monster Bash, CentralTrak: University of Texas at Dallas Artist Residency, 
                                 Dallas, TX (14+1 (now known as IN COOPERATION WITH MUSCLE NATION)) 
                                 Confirm and Deny, UTD Art Gallery, Richardson, TX (14+1 (now known as IN COOPERATION WITH 
                   MUSCLE NATION))  
                         HELLO at 1331 Dragon (now Red Arrow Art Gallery), Dallas, TX (14+1 (now known as IN 
                   COOPERATION WITH MUSCLE NATION.A Collective)) 
                                  EXPO 2011, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX 
                                  Dallas VideoFest, Dallas, TX 
  
2010              Chick Flicks Film Festival, Women in Film Dallas, Studio Movie Grill, Dallas, TX 
                                 Dallas VideoFest, Dallas, TX 
                                 New York City International Film Festival, New York, NY 
  
Dance Experience
  
2011-Present              DGDG (Danielle Georgiou Dance Company), Artistic Director, Dallas, TX 
                                   Contemporary Ballet Dallas, Company Member, Dallas, TX 
2012-Present              Eastfield College—Dance (Program Coordinator); Theatre (Choreographer), Mesquite, TX 
                                   Dallas Neo-Classical Ballet, Guest Choreographer, Dallas, TX 
2011-2012                   Richland College, Dance Department, Guest Artist, Dallas, TX 
2008-2011                   Muscle Memory Dance Theatre, Collective Member/PR Specialist, Dallas, TX 
2007-2015                  UTA Dance Ensemble, Director, Arlington, TX                        
2010                              National Performance Network: Annual Conference, Showcased Artist, Dallas, TX 
  
DGDG Productions
  
2016                         Dirty Filthy Diamonds                    Dallas Children's Theatre, Dallas, TX 
  
                                         The Show About Men                    Bath House Cultural Center (Festival of Independent Theatres), Dallas, TX 
   
                                        NICE                                                       Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX 
   
                                        NICE                                                     WaterTower Theatre (for the Out of the Loop Festival), Addison, TX 
  
2014                            NICE                                                     Wyly Theatre, 6th Floor Studio Theatre (part of the AT&T Performing Arts Center’s Elevator Project), Dallas, TX 
 
                                         These Arms Are Snakes                Courtyard Theater, Plano, TX 
  
                                          Dirty Filthy Diamonds                   Margo Jones Theatre in the Magnolia Lounge, Dallas, TX 
  
2013                             Beauty/Beast                                  Red Arrow Contemporary, Dallas, TX 
  
                                       Pizzicato Porno                              Touring Show (first premiered at Rouge Fringe Festival, Fresno, CA) 
  
                                        Packaged Garden                            Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, TX 
   
                                         What This Was Never About          Courtyard Theater, Plano, TX 
                                          
                                         What This Is Not About                  Bath House Cultural Center, Dallas, TX 
  
                                         The Young Ones                             Teatro Dallas, Dallas, TX 
  
2012                               Elegant Ghost                                 Teatro Dallas, Dallas, TX 
  
2011                               bien dans sa peau                            South Dallas Cultural Center, Dallas, TX 
  
                                           Love Stone…wasted                       EXCHANGE Dance Festival, Tulsa, OK 
  
                                           Love and Vices                                Teatro Dallas, Dallas, TX 
  
2010-2011                      Roam                                               National Performance Network’s Annual Conference, Dallas, TX            
  
  
DANCE FILMS 
  
2011                                    “Love Crime,” selected for inclusion in the 500X Juried Show (juror: Marty Walker) 
2010                                    “Roam” 
                                                Official selection of the Women In Film/SAG’s Chick Flicks 2010 
                                               Official selection of the Hub Shorts Film Festival: Dance for Camera 
                                               Official selection of the Dallas VideoFest 
                                               Chosen to be presented at the National Performance Network’s Annual Conference 
                                               “One On One” 
                                                Official selection of the New York City International Film Festival 
                                                Official selection of the Hub Shorts Film Festival 
  
Panels
  
2015                            The Way You Move and Role Call, for the Dallas Museum of Art’s Late Night, workshop leader and 
                        public performance Arts and Culture from the Artists’ Perspective, for Refining the City (D Magazine), panelist 
  
2014                            Next Topic: The State of Dance, moderator and panelist 
                                    Arts and Culture from the Artists’ Perspective, for Refining the City (D Magazine), panelist 
  
2012                            What the #$%& do you do with an art degree?, panelist 
                                    1.2 Million Stories: State of the Emerging Arts, panelist            
  
Service Work
  
2016                    School of YES, Dance Instructor, Oak Cliff Cultural Center, Cara Mia Theatre Co., Dallas, TX 
                            DaVerse Lounge, commissioned performance for Teach for America, Dallas, TX 
                            “Lines of the Body,” photography and movement workshop at the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX 
 
2015                        School of YES, Dance Instructor, Oak Cliff Cultural Center, Cara Mia Theatre Co., Dallas, TX 
                                   “The Way You Move,” movement workshop at the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX 
                                   Selections from DGDG's rep, Dallas Festival of Ideas, Winspear Opera House, Dallas, TX 
                            
2014                         School of YES, Dance Instructore, Oak Cliff Cultural Center, Cara Mia Theatre Co., Dallas, TX 
   
2013                         AIDS Outreach Center Benefit Concert, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX (Performer with 
Contemporary Ballet Dallas) 

Professional Training
  
Modern: Micki Saba, Michelle Hanlon, Lesley Snelson, Jennifer Mabus, Kate Walker 
Graham: Lesley Hale 
Contemporary: Jill Rucci, Sarah Smith Matzke 
Experimental Modern and Improvisation: Renana Raz, Birgitt Bodingbauer, Big Rig Dance Collective 
Ballet: Valerie Tabor, Eileen McKee, Jennifer Arellano 
Jazz: Darrell Cleveland, Jill Rucci 
Theatre and Performance Aesthetics, History, Criticism: Thomas Riccio, Fred Curchack 
Experimental Movement Training: Thomas Riccio, Fred Curchack 
Choreography: Micki Saba, Michelle Hanlon, Thomas Riccio 

Workshops, Residencies, Master Classes and Restaged Works
  
2015                        Kate Walker, Master Class with FurtherDanceFW, Fort Worth, TX 
  
2014                        Amy Morrow, GAGA Workshop, Dallas, TX 
                                  Tony Orrico, Performance Movement Workshop, Dallas, TX 
  
2012                        Nightmare Before Valentine, Performance Residency at UT Dallas, Richardson, TX 
  
2011                        John Mario, Performance Residency at UT Dallas, Richardson, TX 
  
2010                        Impedimento, choreographer O-T-O Artistic Director Annie Bunke, restaged work at UT Dallas, 
Richardson, TX 
  
2009                        Muscle Memory Dance Theatre, Performance Residency at Texas A&M, College Station, TX 
                                  Renana Raz, Improvisational Master Class, Dallas, TX            
 
Selected Articles and Critical Reviews

  
Putnam, Margaret. “Danielle Georgiou: Idea Mover.” TheaterJones. December 30, 2014. 
  
Quartz, George. “2014 in Review: Musicians Weight in on the Year That Was.” D Magazine. December 31, 2014. 
  
Putnam, Margaret. “The Year in Dance.” TheaterJones. December 2014. 
  
Mendoza, Manuel. “Transition marked North Texas dance in 2014.” Dallas Morning News. December 26, 2014. 
  
Mendoza, Manuel. “Critic’s Choice: A Big Loss, New Choreographers Kept Dance Writer Manny Mendoza On His Toes 
            in 2014.” NPR/KERA Art & Seek (on air and print). December 24, 2014 
  
Mattioli, Zoe. “Sugar & Spice: Scenes from Danielle Georgiou Dance Group’s Closing Performance of Nice.” Central 
            Track. November 24, 2014. 
  
Putnam, Margaret. “Nice Work, and They Got It.” TheaterJones. November 18, 2014. 
  
Liner, Elaine. “DGDG’s New Dance Work, NICE, Has Spice.” Dallas Observer. November 20, 2014. 
  
Mendoza, Manuel. “Though-provoking show ‘NICE’ aggressively examines social conventions.” Dallas Morning News. 
            November 18, 2014. 
Smart, Lauren. “There’s a Crazy Dance Show in Fair Park. You Should Go.” Dallas Observer. March 3, 2014. 
  
Putnam, Margaret. “Shades of Blue.” TheaterJones. March 3, 2014. 
  
Mendoza, Manuel. “Dance Review: ‘Dirty Filthy Diamonds’ breaks down wall.” Dallas Morning News. February 28, 
            2014. 
  
Wozny, Nancy. “Maverick Mover: Danielle Georgiou.” Arts and Culture Texas. January 26, 2014. 
  
Laughlin, Jamie. “The Story of Pizzicato Porno, A Dallas Theatre Experiment Starring an Orgasmic Chicken.” Dallas 
            Observer. April 5, 2013. 
  
Hamilton, Brentney. “The ‘Outlaw’ Collective Muscle Nation is Back, and That’s Good for Dallas Art.” Dallas Observer. 
            July 31, 2012. 
  
Richards, Ryder. “Gallery Hopping: Reviews of Shows at Oliver Francis, Angstrom, CentralTrak, And More.” D 
            Magazine. July 9, 2012. 
  
Hamilton, Brentney. “If I had a Million: Ideas to Inspire and Improve from Artists in the Trenches.” Dallas Observer. 
            June 12, 2012. 
  
Hamilton, Brentney. “On Criticism: Fostering a Constructive Dialogue for Dallas Arts.” Dallas Observer. May 25, 2012. 
  
Laughlin, Jamie. “Performance Art Wins: I Fall on My Own Sword at CentralTrak.” Dallas Observer. May 21, 2012. 
  
Mosley, Christopher. “Art Review and Photos: The Raw Spectacle of 9 Cents a Copy at CentralTrak.” D Magazine. May 
            2, 2012. 
  
Lewis, Betsy. “HARAKIRI: To Die For Performances at CentralTrak.” Glasstire.com. April 25, 2012. Hamilton, Brentney. 
  
“Little Death, Big O: CentralTrak’s HARAKIRI Series Launches Tomorrow.” Dallas Observer. April 20, 2012. 
  
Lewis, Betsy. “Flex-Us [In Cooperation with Muscle Nation] at Ro2 Art.” Glasstire.com. March 7, 2012. 
  
Mendoza, Manuel. “Danielle Georgiou debuts her new dance company in Love and Vices.” The Dallas Morning News. 
            February 20, 2011. 
  
Putnam, Margaret. “Guns and Roses: Danielle Georgiou Dance Group has both, and more, in ‘Love and Vices’.” 
            TheaterJones.com. February 13, 2011. 
  
Residencies and Collectives
  
2011-Present             Slik Stockings, Performance Art Duo, Dallas, TX 
2011-2013                   CentralTrak, University of Texas at Dallas Artist Residency, Dallas, TX 
2011-2014                   IN COOPERATION WITH MUSCLE NATION.A Collective, Dallas, TX 
  
Teaching Experience
  
2011-Present              Eastfield College, Mesquite, TX 
2007-2015                   University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX 
2010-2012                   University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 
2009-2012                   Richland College, Dallas, TX

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Ro2 Art Gallery  | 214.803.9575 | 2606 Bataan St.,  Dallas, Texas 75212 

Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 12 - 5 PM 
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