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Meghan Durham/Merge Dance supports physical and aesthetic inquiry through the medium of dance, and advocates access to dance for diverse populations, inviting the integration and excavation of human experience through movement.

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Meghan Durham Wall is a dance artist, maker, educator, and advocate. Meghan’s creative work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Eccles Foundation, the Philadelphia Foundation, Dance Advance’s artists’ exchange in Singapore (administered by the Pew Charitable Trust), and the Greater Columbus Arts Council, among others. She has held dance faculty positions at Princeton University, Temple University, the University of Utah, Westminster College, Bates Dance Festival, Repertory Dance Theater's Community School, and the Virginia Tanner Creative Dance Program.  Currently, she teaches as an Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University.
Meghan’s past choreographic highlights include creating a work for the 2002 Cultural Olympiad, accompanied live by Pete Seeger, and crafting a street crossing in San Francisco with a quartet of differently-abled adults. Durham’s current performance research focuses on the duet form with collaborator Karl Rogers, and features commissions by internationally recognized choreographers. Her creative work embeds interdisciplinary inquiry within dance praxis, while placing the human body and experience at the foreground of her work. Meghan is particularly interested in the unexpected dancing body.