Erin Malley Dance Film

Erin Malley creates imaginative dance films and choreography prioritizing visual imagery and the rhythm of the edit. The subject that engages her most deeply is the space within us and between us, and the theater of that negative space played out over time.

Malley was the Founder and Artistic Director of Malleable Dance Theater, a non-profit organization in New York, NY from 2007-2011. Her choreography has been presented at venues such as the Prague International Dance Festival, fFIDA (Toronto), Joe’s Pub at the DanceNow Festival (NYC), HERE Arts Center (NYC), and Dance Place (Washington, DC), ODC (San Francisco) and CounterPULSE (SF).

In 2013, Malley turned her attention towards dance film. Her film work has screened throughout the United States, and as far as Europe & the UK, India and Tasmania.

Malley won a 2015 ‘Izzie’ award in Visual Design for her contributions to Mary Armentrout’s Reveries and Elegies. She is the recipient of the 2013 Western Michigan University Department of Dance Alumni Academy award. She has received residencies at the Atlantic Center for the Arts (FL), San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, SILO | DanceNOW NYC, Deborah Slater Dance Theatre (SF), Milkbar (Oakland, CA) among others. Malley has received grants from Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo.

She graduated with a BFA (Magna Cum Laude) in Dance and French from Western Michigan University (2001) and was the Presidential Scholar in Dance of her graduating class. Post-graduation, she continued her studies for one year at the Centre Choregraphique National de Montpellier in France.

Malley works worldwide, with regular projects in the San Francisco Bay Area and in Southwest Michigan.