Pioneer Winter

Photo courtesy of Brett Hufziger.

Pioneer Winter (b. 1987) is a Miami-based choreographer and dance artist. He directs Pioneer Winter Collective, a group of allies, activists and artists in their own right, whose bodies and voices transform their social, political, and cultural landscapes. Recognized in Dance Magazine's "25 to Watch" PWC is a contemporary dance and physical theater company that democratizes performance in public spaces, museums/galleries, stage, and film.

Pioneer’s choreography has been commissioned by several South Florida universities, the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, Miami Theater Center, Karen Peterson and Dancers, Tigertail Productions, MDC Live Arts, and Jacksonville Dance Theatre. Pioneer Winter Collective is supported by local, state, foundation, and fellowship awards, including a MAP Fund and New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) National Dance Project Production grant award for their project Birds of Paradise. Beyond the company, Pioneer Winter teaches in areas of social justice and art, epistemology, and dance at Florida International University as visiting professor and faculty fellow in the Honors College and in the Theatre Department. Pioneer Winter Collective is the Adrienne Arsht Center’s first Artist-in-Residence collaboration.

Pioneer produces Grass Stains, its initiative for site-specific dance creation that includes an ongoing collaboration with choreographers Stephan Koplowitz (2016, 2018) and Ana Sánchez-Colberg (2019, 2020). Summer 2019, PWC was Miami site lead on an international site/technology project in association with Ana Sánchez-Colberg and Theatre enCorps,(Athens, Greece), which bridged cities across the globe with simultaneous performances.

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