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Artist · Educator · Global citizen

Mary A. Chase
leads with love.

A multidisciplinary movement artist, educator, and arts leader creating spaces where curiosity, cultural dialogue, and embodied learning belong.

Mary A. Chase photographed by Tom Kramer

CHASEDANCE creates and produces site-specific, multimedia collaborations, captivating audiences across the United States and internationally in Europe, Asia, North and South America, and the Middle East.

Wherever CHASEDANCE lives and works, it creates opportunities for cultural inclusion and dialogue. Bridging art-making with contemplative practice is paramount to the company’s artistic vision and ethos.

From 2022–2026, Mary’s artistic passions extended widely in Abu Dhabi, stemming from her belief in community-centered access to the arts. She directed Emirates School of Dance, providing education throughout Abu Dhabi in eleven locations with a faculty of eight artist educators.

Leadership and artistic direction succeed when tradition is braided with innovation.

Leadership + education

A career built
across communities.

Arts leadership

Executive Director of Joy of Motion Dance Center and Director of Emirates School of Dance.

Program direction

College of Southern Maryland, McCallum Fine Arts Academy, and Merrill International School.

Higher education

Faculty appointments across U.S. universities and the American Ballet Theatre Summer Intensive.

Global collaboration

Performance Co/Lab, Performance Co//ective, City of Movement, and interdisciplinary projects worldwide.

Training + credentials

Practice grounded
in knowledge.

Ethos of movement education

Students are collaborators.

Mary nurtures a progressive environment that sparks curiosity, creativity, critical thinking, and trust. Learning is reciprocal: each lesson is a conversation between what is known and what the student makes with it. Diverse cultural perspectives and each mover’s creative voice belong at the center.

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