Kimberleigh A. Holman is an artist working interdisciplinarily in dance, theatre and design. Her work gravitates to the exploration of human social interaction and behavior, both real and fictitious, miniscule instances or broad patterns, through comedic, dark, sensory or abstract narrative. As a mover and maker, one of her biggest considerations is authenticity; she hopes to enable those performing her work to find genuine ways to be present in the performance space and hopes to inspire viewers to react in genuinely felt ways of their own. Kim excitedly creates around these principles for Luminarium, of which she is Co-Founder and Artistic Director, and places equal value on making interdisciplinary work for stage, landscape, and atypical spaces.
Besides nearly 80 performances with Luminarium across New England, Kim has been invited to choreograph for commercials and film, dozens of theatrical productions across Boston, and to bring her work to stages ranging from library basements, to the Museum of Fine Arts, to the globally renowned APAP conference in NYC. Since co-founding Luminarium in 2010, Kimberleigh has shown work at venues including the Boston Center for the Arts, mobius, Mount Holyoke College, OBERON, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Public Library, Gibney Dance (NYC), and more, including a high profile commission to open TEDxCambridge at the Boston Opera House. Her collaborations with musicians, visual artists, writers, and other creators are some of her favorite projects.
Holman is equally passionate about community-based projects. She coordinates Luminarium’s Arts in Action Project; an annual outreach program across Greater Boston that strives to make social impact through youth arts experiences. Past projects include coordinating programming with the Boys and Girls Clubs of Boston, the South Boston Community Health Center, OUT MetroWest, Italian Home for Children, and bringing the company’s free DANCE+ Series across Somerville, Boston and surrounding neighborhoods. Additionally, Kim dreamt up Luminarium’s 24-Hr ChoreoFest in 2012 to demystify the creative process and build and develop community inside and out of Boston’s dance scene.
Holman was most recently one of two choreographers awarded the Boston Dancemakers’ Residency (2021-2022) to produce brand new work titled Common Circus, which recently was also awarded a prestigious LAB grant from The Boston Foundation. Her current work Contradictions + Casual Self Loathing earned her her largest grant-to-date—The Boston Foundation’s 2020 Live Arts Boston (LAB) Fund—in addition to being awarded support through NEFA's New England Dance Fund and The Dance Complex's CATALYSTS residency. She was granted funding through the New England Grassroots Environment Fund for her work activating a contaminated stretch of water in her hometown. Holman has additionally been awarded over a dozen grants for her community initiatives and artistic work with Luminarium, from agencies including the Boston and Massachusetts Cultural Councils.
Kim is simultaneously working in public art, with the installation of her work What’s on the Line… in public spaces in Cambridge and the Greater Boston area.
Kim is frequently hired as a guest artist at Boston-area universities, speaks on her career as an arts entrepreneur, and occasionally performs as a guest with Monkeyhouse and in karen Krolak’s Dictionary of Negative Space project.
Kim earned her MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts (Performance Creation) from Goddard College, a BA in Dance/Theatre from Mount Holyoke College (FCDD), trains as an amateur boxer, and works as a certified personal trainer.
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Based in Boston, MA
Available for hire: Choreography (modern, contemporary, musical theatre), Teaching/Master Classes (modern, contemporary, jazz, composition, production, technical theatre), Lighting Design, Installation/Performance Art, Lectures/Speaking Gigs
Email or call for availability/questions:
kimberleigh.holman@gmail.com
603-494-8936
Site-Wide Photo Credits: Jenn Allen, Ryan Carollo, Jim Coleman, Kristophe Diaz, Lucia Droby, Shane Godfrey, Steph Hodge, Kim Holman, Wolf Luman, Mali Sastri, Kristyn Ulanday, Dan Goldman, Mercure Photography.