Bios
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Chafin Seymour is a native of Brooklyn, NY. He holds a BFA with Distinction in Dance from The Ohio State University and an MFA in Choreography from the University of Iowa. He has had the pleasure to perform with Sage Ni’Ja Whitson/The NWA Project and Anneke Hansen Dance among others.
As a choreographer, under seymour::dancecollective, Chafin’s work has been presented throughout nationally at venues such as Center for Performance Research (CPR), Triskelion Arts, Dixon Place, Livestream Public, Gibney Dance, The Wild Project, New York Live Arts, Movement Research at Judson Church, ODC Theater, The Ohio Dance Festival and The American Dance Festival among many others. The collective works on a project to project basis with a rotating roster of curated artists.
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Chafin was an inaugural Ann & Weston Hicks Choreographic Fellow at Jacob’s Pillow in 2018 and was commissioned by The American Dance Festival and Limón Foundation to create ‘Suite Donuts’ for the Limón Dance Company in 2020. His most recent commissions ‘At Play’ for the Modern American Dance Company (MADCO) in St. Louis and ‘Glitch’ for the LINES Ballet Training Program Limón premiered in 2022
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Chafin has taught contemporary forms at Gibney Dance in NYC since 2015 and at ODC San Francisco since 2023. Currently Chafin resides in the Bay Area, CA and serves as an Assistant Professor of Contemporary Dance at San Jose State University.