Through bodies in motion, NY based choreographer Kendra Mace Clark, creates living texts that magnify her wildly playful imagination.
KMC has developed an artistic language that explores the exquisite nature of the mind-body duality by melding current and historical dance influences into a hybrid style.
KMC’s newest work, called Project PAUSE, premiers at the Southampton Cultural Center in 2017. Her works were also commissioned for Universal Dance Association’s national performances broadcast on ESPN, the MoveUP! Dance Festival at The Clemente in NYC's Lower East Side, and the JumpstART Festival for East End Arts. Mace was awarded the Mark DeGarmo Dance Salon Series Choreography Award and is the recipent of the 2017 New York State Council of the Arts Creative Communities Grant. She is also the 2017 Artist-in-Resident at Centre d'Art Marnay Art Centre (France).
KMC earned a B.A. in Psychology and Dance from CSUF and a M.F.A. in Dance from Sarah Lawrence College. As a performer she has worked with Rashaun Mitchell, Jodi Melnick, Dianne McIntyre, Buglisi Dance Theatre at Lincoln Center, and a reconstruction of Martha Graham’s most acclaimed masterpiece Primitive Mysteries (1931) at The Joyce Theatre.
KMC is the Founder and Artistic Director of Kendra Mace Dance. She is also the Director at the Pontiac Dance Department in the Berkshires and develops Performance Studies Residencies for academic institutions and community agencies in NYC, Southampton, and Westchester.