shannon stewart | screaming traps creates work that shifts between punk materiality and abstraction. Their practice is anchored in contemporary dance performance and moves through essay, poetry, film, installation, parade, ritual, and community-engaged projects. 

 

shannon’s process is informed by a lifetime of participation in dance, underground arts and activist communities, time spent in the wilderness and natural world, and long-form collaborations. Their work has been presented across North America and Europe, supported by residencies from the Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, UCROSS Foundation, Art Omi, among others, and has received awards for outstanding choreography and dance presentation.

 

Through re:FRAME, a choreographic collective with Ann Glaviano, Ryuta Iwashita, jeremy de’jon guyton, and Meryl Zaytoun Murman, challenging silo-ed arts funding structures, shannon’s work has been supported by the National Performance Network, Platforms Fund, Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography, and New England Foundation for the Arts National Dance Project (finalist).

 

Their current project FOREST with Tahni Holt, recognized with a 2026 Creative Capital State of the Art Award, is both performance and embodied protest across three locations—mourning climate change while foregrounding interconnectedness within human and non-human worlds. shannon holds an MFA from Tulane University in Interdisciplinary Dance Performance and a BA in Community and Environmental Planning from the University of Washington. They are on faculty at the University of Kansas where they research performance entanglements with the natural world and teach in the Department of Theatre and Dance.