Co-Founder & Co-Producer

Lauren Slone (BEACON co-founder, co-producer) is a lifelong student of dance and a choreographic systems thinker who creates many different ways of connecting people and ideas. She earned a BA in Religious Studies and minor in Philosophy from West Virginia University, and an MFA in Dance Performance and Choreography from Florida State University. After her appointment as Artistic Director of Morgantown Dance, she held a Ballet Lecturer teaching fellowship at FSU, was the first Maggie Allesee National Center for the Arts Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, and pursued choreographic research in Israel, Spain, and France. She’s received PS122 RAMP and Lillian E. Smith Center residencies, and her work has been presented at the Wassaic Art Festival, Ailey Citigroup Theater, Church of Saint Paul the Apostle in New York City, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center, Wexner Center for the Arts, and The Palladium Theater.