Pamela Gleason

2025 Choreography FELLOW

Photo credit: Edward Bock

Pamela Gleason has been creating, teaching and performing modern dance for over 40 years. From the mid-1980s to 2011, she was involved with the Nancy Hauser Dance Company/Hauser Dance as an apprentice, company member, teacher, and choreographer.

She has taught, performed, and presented her work in many Twin Cities venues, several US cities, in Taiwan, Japan, Russia, and Ireland. She has choreographed over 50 pieces, 8 theater productions, and has received support from the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Jerome Foundation, and the Metropolitan Regional Arts Commission.

Her body of work includes solos, group pieces, several evening-length dance concerts, and films. Pam is the director of MotionArt (founded in 2013), an organization dedicated to making dance and the joy of movement accessible to people of all ages and abilities. MotionArt ‘s recent evening-length shows, Space Encounters (2017), Games People Play (2018), and Collabulous (2019) were staged at the Conn Theater in Minneapolis, and Reel Imaginings (2024), a production of four short dance films, was presented at Center for Performing Arts and Parkway Theater in Minneapolis.

Originally from St. Paul, Pam taught in the University of Minnesota Dance Department for 15 years and continues to teach modern dance and host monthly improv gatherings through MotionArt. She is committed to enhancing the mental and physical well-being of others through her classes, choreography, and film work.
https://motionartmn.org/