Talia Mason is a dancer and choreographer interested in the intersections of kinesthetic and verbal language and the role of memory in shaping/forging dances/dance making practices. Talia holds a BA in Dance and Francophone Studies and Education from Bates, a post-baccalaureate in performance from Headlong Performance Institute, an MFA in Experimental Choreography from UC-Riverside where she was the recipient of numerous graduate and research fellowships, and an M.Ed at the University of Maryland with a French K-12 certification. She wholeheartedly believes in dance education and is eager to find more ways to integrate dance into the public education system with foreign language instruction. Talia taught Movement full-time at Greene Towne Montessori in Philadelphia and served as a freelance graphic designer and marketing assistant for Headlong. She adjuncts and helps facilitate community-oriented engagements for Dance Exchange.Talia studied at the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange and Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company. Her choreography has been presented at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Movement Research’s Open Performance, Fringearts’s Scratch Night, Bartram’s Garden, UC-Riverside, and Dance Exchange. She has performed in work choreographed by Belle Alvarez, Nicole Bindler, Rachel Boggia, Dance Exchange, Sean Dorsey, Lily Kind, Shreshth Khilani/Sarah Marks Mininsohn, Cassie Meador, Tiffany Rhynard, and Mira Treatman. Her work with collaborator Christina Catanese, Field Notes on Remembering, premiered at Bartram’s Garden with the oldest ginkgo tree in North America. Her MFA research, Water Lines, looks at process/performance as sites of memory in understanding her Jewish American Midwestern ancestry and the role of memory and remembering in autoethnographic multidisciplinary interactive work. Currently, you can find Talia teaching French to middle schoolers at Tilden Middle School where she weaves together her love of movement with her love of the French language.