Movement.
ARTISTIC STATEMENT
As a dancer and choreographer, Megan is drawn to the authenticity, physicality, and vulnerability of discovery that emerge through movement. Her work looks to the natural world as well as inward, to reveal truths carried by the mind and body.
Her choreography is both personal and collective: an invitation for dancers to discover freedom in their own bodies while building a shared language of curiosity, peace, and truth.
In March 2020, Megan began a daily movement practice: 15–30 minutes of improvisation without music, recorded and shared as open research. More than five years later, the practice continues to shape her choreography through improvisation, authenticity, discovery, and artistic voice.
2025
The complex relation and inner workings of the mind, humanity, and the natural environment. Facing challenges that slowly unravel perceptions and finding connections to each other, the elements of nature, and eventually, themselves.
Role: Choreographer · Dancers: Salt2 dance company ·Presented in Salt Lake City, Utah
2025
Understanding the perception of what is… How do we understand our own authenticity amongst the many versions of self we hold. This piece navigates through the complexities of inner dialogue and the forces that direct our image of self.
Role: Choreographer · Dancers: VIVO Dance Company - Presented in Rome, Italy
2024
The movement in this piece is rooted from the dynamic qualities of nature exploring the duality of set movement and improvisation. How freedom, spontaneity, familiarity, curiosity, can be found within each moment of life. Taking time to feel, and embody the natural world happening around us and experience it within us.
Role: Choreographer and Dancer
2026
To define effort, to measure labor, to label worth. Through movement and relation to intensity and softness the dancers unveil that effort is found and grasped in many ways. The strongest moments are the ones unseen to the eye but felt in the mind and body. The intentional effort of letting go and simply being.
Role: Choreographer - Dancers: MotionX Dance Company - Presented in Virginia
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Inside the Process
The studio is a place to listen before deciding.
Megan begins with improvisation, questions, and shared research. Dancers are invited to locate freedom and authenticity in their own bodies, not to reproduce a fixed image, but to help discover what the work can become. Thoughts and emotions move through bodies, creating a process that is rigorous, genuine, and collaborative.
Experience
CHOREOGRAPHY
Commissions · Ensemble works · Site-responsive research
PERFORMANCE
Contemporary companies · Independent artists · Festivals
TEACHING
Improvisation · Composition · Contemporary technique
TRAINING
Professional intensives · Conservatory study · Ongoing research
INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE
Cross-cultural projects · Touring · Exchange programs
FESTIVALS & RESIDENCIES
Selected presentations · Creative residencies
COLLABORATIONS
Dancers · Musicians · Visual artists · Educators
RECOGNITION
Awards and selected press available in full résumé
Megan Castro
Megan Castro is a choreographer, contemporary artist, dancer, and educator whose work explores authenticity, vulnerability, and the relationship between human thought and the natural world. Her international training and performance experience inform a collaborative choreographic practice rooted in improvisation and discovery. She is based in the United States and is working toward the long-term creation of her own dance company.
Megan Castro — Floating Around
Choreography · Performance · Collaboration