Claire Lane

Claire Lane is a Boston-based dance artist, educator, and choreographer. She graduated summa cum laude in 2020 from Smith College with a B.A. in Dance and French Studies with the distinction of highest honors. A recipient of the Five College Dance Department Virginia K. Wagner Scholarship and the Smith College Excellence in Dance Studies award, she performed in works by Doug Varone, Bebe Miller, Ephrat Asherie, Angie Hauser, Chris Aiken, and Rodger Blum. Claire has pursued training internationally at P.A.R.T.S under the direction of Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker in Belgium, and at Trinity Laban Conservatory in London. Choreographing under the moniker detritus dance with artistic collaborator Caroline Bradbury, she was honored to receive funding from the Somerville Arts Council as an inaugural ArtAssembled Artist-in-Resident, where she developed “in the Ether,” a 30-minute multimedia duet exploring biblical lore from a feminist revisionist lens.

As a freelance performer, Claire has had the pleasure to work with Holly Stone/StoneWorks Productions, Abilities Dance Boston, Chavi Bansal, Haley Andrews/Andrews Movement, and Eliza Malecki Dance at esteemed venues including the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston and L.A. Dance Project. She will be joining Kairos Dance Theater beginning in the fall of 2022. Claire teaches at several studios throughout the greater Metro Boston area, and she cultivates connections with professional contemporary dancers as a rotating teacher through the grassroots organization Midday Movement. Her artistic practice is rooted in somatic principles as an entry into physical and emotional range.