Mentor
Grace Malone, born in Cocoa Beach, Florida, is a Philadelphia-based movement artist who found her love for dance at a young age. After attending Ohio State University for her first year of college, Grace found her real home at the University of the Arts where she earned her BFA in dance in December of 2021. Having trained in a wide variety of dance mediums, Grace especially enjoys modern and contemporary dance and indulges daily in her deep passion for improvisation. Grace has worked with many different dance artists and companies from around the world including Hubbard Street Dance Company, Doug Varone and Dancers, Peter Chu, Tommie-Waheed Evans, Flockworks, Helen Simoneau, Scott Jennings and many others. Working with an ongoing fascination with poetry, story-telling, and reminiscence, Grace’s choreographic process includes a playfully poetic approach that is sure to tap into the inner-child of any onlooker who witnesses the story unfold.
Where did you grow up?
Cocoa Beach, FL
What is your favorite dance accomplishment?
Performing Hubbard Street Dance Company Repertory
Favorite dance movie?
Paris Is Burning and Burlesque (couldn’t pick one!!)
What are your favorite styles of dance to perform and why?
My favorite style of dance is Gaga because it allows a full, rigorous expression of my body and mind without the boundaries and limits of predetermined form. It allows me to open my heart to the possibilities of dance through sensation and gives me more opportunities to feel dance the way I felt it when I first began my dance journey.
