Choreographer, designer, and artist-engineer: Laurel is a transdisciplinary artist making work which imagines new kinds of experience. Their work features synthesistic mythology and embodied collaboration, including traditional choreography for both disabled and nondisabled artists and novel technologies for creating and deploying art. Research and design practice live alongside choreography, sculpture, and language as their primary artistic methods.
Laurel’s dance career began with Full Radius Dance in 2004; they are currently an artist and the access & technology lead with Kinetic Light, the internationally acclaimed disability arts organization, the co-founder and CEO of CyCore Systems, a technology consultancy specializing in systems & product architecture and multi-realm solutions, the director of Rose Tree Productions, and additionally support equity-centered arts work and strategy through facilitation and consulting.
In collaboration with Sydney Skybetter and a growing cohort of artist-technologists, Laurel leads The Choreodaemonic Collective: centering embodied knowings of interdependence as artists, audiences, and AI contend with human-mediated symbiotic and adversarial relationships between nature, art, and emerging technologies. Laurel’s work is supported by the Ford Foundation, the Doris Duke Foundation, and has been recognized with awards which include the DFA fellowship and Creative Capital.
