Move-Ments Artist: Holly Bass.

Holly Bass is a writer, choreographer and performer. She has presented her solo work at respected regional theaters and performance spaces such as the Kennedy Center (DC), the Whitney Museum (NY) and the Experience Music Project (Seattle). Critics have praised her one-woman-show, Diary of a Baby Diva, as “mesmerizing” (Village Voice) and “indisputably funny” (Washington Post). Her poems have been published in Callaloo, nocturnes (re)view, Role Call (Third World Press, 2002) and The Ringing Ear and she has worked as a teaching artist through DC WritersCorps and other programs. She curated the NYC Hip Hop Theater Festival for three years and was the first journalist to put the term “hip hop theater” into print in a 1999 article for American Theatre. Her essay on women and hip hop theater appears in the contemporary feminist anthology The Fire This Time: Young Activists and the New Feminism. She has been awarded two Artist Fellowship grants from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. In addition to her solo work, she has performed with Gesel Mason Performance Projects, ClancyWorks Dance Company and was a member of Carla Perlo’s Carla & Co. Her dance-based short films have been screened at Ladyfest and other festivals. She studied modern dance (under Viola Farber) and creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College before earning a Master’s in Journalism from Columbia University.