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July 17, 2026 

Conflux Faculty Performance

Untitled Solo

Andy Arts

Detroit, MI

July 29, 2026 | time TBA

Critical Engagement at FLOCK Dance Center

Tahni Holt + Shannon Stewart - FOREST 

Portland, OR 

 

October 23 + 24, 2026 

RISK/REWARD presents 

river, river, river: a solo

Portland, OR 

October 29 + 30, 2026

Kurveball 

Tahni Holt + Shannon Stewart - FOREST 

Greenwood Social Hall

Kansas City, MO

PAST

2026

April 25th

Choreography for a Forest

KU Field Station Rice Woodland Trail Opening 

Baldwin Woods, KS 

2025

February 1

A field, a forest

Tahni Holt + Shannon Stewart 

Performance & Workshop

Whitman College Studio Series

Walla Walla, WA 

May 15 - 28, 

Adam Sekuler + Shannon Stewart

Residency & Workshop

Atland

May 18 

WORKSHOP: WHAT DOES THIS BODY MAKE?

Workroom Studio

Northampton, MA 

Info

July 

INTENSIVE: CONFLUX DETROIT

Andy Arts Center

August 21 - 23

Countertechnique @ Making Moves Festival 

Charlotte Street Foundation

Kansas City, MO

October 1 

BE/WITH: Seven Improvisations

@ Charlotte Street Foundation

Kansas City, MO

November 14 - 16

Upstream (new work)

University Dance Company

Crafton Preyor Theatre

University of Kansas

2024

Janurary

river, river, river

Whitman Studio Series, Walla Walla, WA

August 
river, river, river Animist

Shannon Stewart + Haruko Crow Nishimura
DANCE INNOVATORS SERIES 

Seattle Festival of Dance + Improvisation 


SFD+I Research Module: not about thing

 

2023

​June

Alex Schweder / Charli Brissey + Shannon Stewart 

Wasserman Projects, Detroit, MI

river, river, river (Excerpt)

RISK/REWARD Festival of New Performance, Portland, OR

November

Field Notes on Survival

University Dance Concert, Lawrence, KS

December

re:FRAME in residence at MANCC

2022

January

re:FRAME Dance 

The Front Gallery (Room 2) 

re:FRAME Dance at the Front Info page

April

In Residence with Cherdonna Shinatra at American Dance Festival 

In residence with Stefan Jovanovic at Dance Exchange (Birmingham) and Museum of Making (Darby)

July

Summer Reading exhibition by the Front Collective 

Tulane University's Carroll Gallery

We Can Manage Photos by Elliot Stokes on view

We Can Manage Performances with Rebecca Allen July 8th - 5:30 - 7:30pm 

October

Oct 22 - 30 - Zagreb, Croatia

Movement Research Global Practice Sharing

 

October 22

river, river, river (excerpt) presented by Antisezona

Museum of Contemporary Art | Muzej suvremene umjetnosti
Avenija Dubrovnik 17, Zagreb

6pm performance | 8pm Discussion

October 29 & 30

What does this body make? Workshop Zagreb

Improspekcije 2022

FB Event

November

Nov 10 - 19, 2022 - Monterrey, Mexico

Queering Space Residency at Conarté

 

We Can Manage Workshop/Performance

Nov 16 - Workshop Participant Performance - Nave Generadores 8pm 

 

river, river, river + Goodnight Cowboy

Nov 17 & 18 - Nave Generadores 8pm

Escuela Adolfo Prieto y Centro de las Artes, del Consejo para la Cultura y las Artes de Nuevo León, CONARTE, con el apoyo del Consulado General de los Estados Unidos de América en Monterrey, México.

 

December

Dec 5, 2022 Detroit

WIP Sharing - Me + Hinterlands + Thank You So Much for Coming

Andy Arts | 8pm 

 

2021

January 9 - Feb 7, 2021

Installation and Performance of Involuntary Park at The Front Gallery

New Orleans, LA

 

May 2 -14, 2021

In residence with Stefan Jovanovic at Dance4, UK

Info

June 2, 2021 | 7:30pm

Solo performance of river, river, river at the Black Box

Kansas City, MO

July 23 - Aug 8

In residence at Art Omi

Ghent, NY 

Dec 11 - Jan 2, 2021

re:FRAME Dance 

The Front Gallery (Room 2) 

re:FRAME Dance at the Front Info page

Dec 16 - 18, 2021

EVERY BODY DANCE NOW Community Dance Week

Hosted at the CAC and Beaubourg Theatre across three days, the re:FRAME cohort will lead activities and workshops, including free community conversations, all-levels movement workshops that address different socio-political issues, and a dance second line through downtown New Orleans.

MORE INFO about all workshops and conversations.

2020

Jan 6, 2020 | 8pm

MOVEMENT RESEARCH at Judson Church

Mariam Dingilian, Jaamil Olawale Kosoko, Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone and zaybra, and Shannon Stewart / Screaming Traps

March 14 | CANCELLED

Aurora Nealand / The Monocle with Shannon Stewart

John F. Kennedy Center

Direct Currents Festival 

Oct 5 - Nov 27

ROAR BERLIN Online

Shannon Stewart, Anna Nowicka, Diego Agullo, Sonja Pregrad

 

2019

January 5- 7, 2019 

Future Oceans (JCC Manhattan | NYC) 

 

January 23, 2019 

Screaming Traps & Guests (Siberia, New Orleans)

Feb 6 - 9, 2019

Pontchartrain screens at FLEX, the Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival (Tampa, FL)

Feb 14, 2019 | 8pm

BE / WITH + Instigation Fest

Art Klub (New Orleans)

May 3, 2019 | 9pm

Aurora Nealand / The Monocle

Siberia (New Orleans)

May 20, 2019 | 7pm

Unlikely Salons with Valentine Pierce and Shannon Stewart

Artist Talk: We are singing and we are saying thank you 

Zeitgeist (Arabi, LA)

Friday June 21st | 9:40pm - 4:23am

THE SHORT DARK LONG RUN

Summer Solstice Improvised Performance

The Church at Hotel Peter & Paul

August 26 -21 

Future Oceans, New Orleans

9 September - 4 October | 7pm

ROAR (BERLIN, GERMANY)

Radical Journeys in Body, Dance, and Performance

Applications open for 2020

10 - 13 October

THERE IS A TENDER THING

Four evenings of work from ROAR Berlin artists: Diego Agulló, Anna Nowicka, and Shannon Stewart

RELATIVES will be presented October 11 & 12

Dec 11 & 12

re:Frame Aperetif JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY​

In progress showings of solos by Meryl Murman, Reese Johansen, Jeremy Guyton, Ryuta Iwashita, and Shannon Stewart/Screaming Traps. 

 

During the National Performance Network Annual Conference

Dec 21 | 6am - 6pm

DARK THOUGH IT IS

A Durational Solstice Performance

Hotel Peter & Paul

 

© 2025 shannon stewart 

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