Jack Gray

Jack Gray is an internationally reknowned choreographer, dancer and founding member of Atamira Dance Company.

In January 2018, Jack was appointed as Artistic Director. Jack’s international itinerary of events includes choreographing for Festival 2018 (Gold Coast Commonwealth Games), co-producing I LAND 2018 at Gibney Dance Center, New York City, as UC Regent’s Lecturer at UCLA and guest speaker at Urban X Indigenous IV in San Francisco, California.

Jack as a partner of I Moving Lab curated I LAND 2017 – 27 public events in 5 cities including Honolulu, Hawaii, Seattle, Washington, Portland, Oregon, Chicago, Illinois and New York City, New York. Other I Moving Lab Highlights include: Indigenous Stamina: Tactics & Revelations at Uluru-Kata Tjuta, The Culmination at Mark Morris Dance Centre, Ruatepupuke at The Field Museum of Chicago, In Conversation 1 & 2 at KDC Works and Tasdance in Tasmania, Two Flows: Tree to River at Yirramboi Festival in Melbourne, Australia.

In 2016, Jack was an Artist in Residence at Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York University, curating a Welcome Event, Round Table Session, Traditional Songs Workshop, Exploring Lenapehoking Adventure, Indigenous Contemporary Dance Workshops and Indigenous Dance Forum at Dixon Place, New York.

Jack is also a writer and lecturer and has taught at the University of California, Riverside, the University of California, Berkeley, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa.