Natalie Greene is a performing artist, director, choreographer and educator who has been active in Bay Area dance and theater since 2003. Natalie became the Artistic Director of the award-winning devised performance ensemble Mugwumpin in 2016, after many years of performing & creating with the company. Her most recent work with the company, “In Event of Moon Disaster” enjoyed a month-long sold-out run at Z Below in January 2018 and won a Theatre Bay Area Award for Projections Design. As a choreographer and intimacy director for theater, Natalie has worked with Aurora Theater Company, Cal Shakes, Portland Center Stage, Shotgun Players and more. Natalie’s dance-theater work has been presented in theaters and non-traditional performance spaces including the Sunshine Biscuit Factory, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco Airport, ODC Theater, Dance Mission Theater, Danspace (NYC), Club Principe (Spain), Montescudaio Amphitheater (Italy) and the DiMenna Center at Baryshnikov Arts (NYC). In collaboration with Amie Dowling and Austin Forbord, Natalie co-choreographed the award-winning short dance films “Well Contested Sites” (2013) and “Separate Sentence” (2016). Her flash mob “Rompiendo Fronteras” was created in 2012 and is presented biannually through a youth leadership summit taking place in contested border communities of Peru, Chile and Bolivia. As a performer Natalie has worked with Mary Armentrout, Kim Epifano, Emily Keeler, Kelly Kemp, Erin Mei-Ling Stuart, Deborah Slater, Leyya Tawil, and many others. Natalie is Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Performing Arts & Social Justice at the University of San Francisco, where she teaches dance, theater and community engagement. Through USF, Natalie leads a service-learning summer program in Tacna, Peru, which is the subject of her new documentary, “Siempre Más Alto.” As a freelance pedagogy consultant Natalie has led workshops and teacher trainings throughout the US and Peru, and as well as in Mexico, Nicaragua, Colombia and Ecuador. She has also taught through San Francisco State University, San Francisco Arts Education Project and ODC School, and she continues to pursue her own training and development as a community-minded, justice-seeking, arts-forward antiracist educator and creator.