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About

Tristan Koepke (he/him) is a dancer, choreographer, and educator based in Portland, ME. His creative works, collected as Big Boy Dance, have been presented at SPACE Gallery, CANDYBOX Dance Festival, Patrick’s Cabaret, Bryant Lake Bowl, ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College, ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Dance Festival, The Wooden Floor, Point Dance Ensemble, Inverse Performance Festival, and The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. He has performed in contemporary and experimental dance works by Chris Schlichting, Vanessa Anspaugh, luciana achugar, Cally Spooner, Doug Varone, Mathew Janczewski, Kendra Portier, Heidi Henderson, Matthew Cumbie, Annie Kloppenberg, and was a member of Zenon Dance Company from 2011-2015 and 2017-2019. He holds an MFA in Dance from the University of Maryland, College Park, and is currently Assistant Professor at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College, where he was also the Associate Director of the Young Dancers Intensive at the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Dance Festival from 2016-2025. He now serves on the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Dance Festival Advisory Board, is a New England representative on the American College Dance Association’s (ACDA) Board of Directors, and is the Dance Area Co-Chair for the Popular Culture Association. His recent publications can be found in Choreographic Practices, Popular Culture Studies Journal, and Dance Research Journal. He was a 2025-2026 Faculty Research Fellow at Jacob’s Pillow, and is a 2026 Dance Research Fellow at the New York Public Library Dance Division.