Niall Jones is an artist / dancer / teacher based in New York City. Niall constructs, inhabits, and explores the theater as a mode and location of instability and incompleteness. Niall received a Bessie Award nomination for Outstanding Emerging Choreographer in 2017 and a 2021 Grants-To- Artists Award from the Foundation for Contemporary Art. Recent performance works by Niall include: Sis Minor, in Fall at Abrons Arts Center, New York, NY (2018); Fantasies in Low Fade at the Chocolate Factory, New York, NY (2019); A Work for Others at The Kitchen @ Queenslab, New York, NY (2021); Open Studio at MoMA PS1, Queens, NY (2021); In the Efforts of Time at Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Stuttgart, DE (2022); dark de luxe: a mess for body, shadow, and other rogue im/materials at Jack Art Center, Brooklyn, NY (2022); a n u n r e a l at The Shed, New York, NY (2022); C O M P R E S S I O N at Performance Space New York, NY (2022); Hahaha as part of School of Temporary Liveness, Vol. 3; and a hole as part of LMCC’s River to River festival (Lotto Royale). Niall co-curated and produced Vol. 1 and 2 of School of Temporary Liveness– a series of para-sites for experiments in performance, practice, and collective study. Niall also works as creative producer and adjunct professor in the School of Dance at University of the Arts.
