OUR MISSION
Wild She Dances creates contemporary, site-specific, and immersive performance that draws audiences into a shared human experience.
Rooted in equity and collaboration, we cultivate a creative environment where artists are valued and supported. Beyond performance, we connect with our community through movement, education, and outreach.
THE COMPANY
Wild She Dances was founded in 2018 by Artistic Director, Bethany Logan. The company began in Brooklyn, New York and in 2021, relocated to Texas where we create work in Austin, Houston, and beyond. Our mission, with an emphasis in collaboration and community, is to provide performance & creative opportunities for professional artists, while ensuring fair treatment, profound inclusivity, and equitable compensation as core values. We create unique connections with audiences through multisensory experiences and engage our community through movement-based partnerships, outreach, education, and social justice advocacy. Our artistic vision is to create work through collaborative processes that explore a tenderness for humanity and the world we live in through gestural, visceral, and explosive movement. We produce evening-length and short works rooted in contemporary movement forms, immersive theater tactics, and collective effort that poetically tell stories of humankind and our many complexities. Wild She Dances believes in the value of community - community among our fellow artists and community with our neighbors. With this belief, we organize community outreach initiatives and programming that is developed with the whole person in mind utilizing social-emotional movement practices.
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR | CHOREOGRAPHER
BETHANY LOGAN
Bethany Logan is a dancer, choreographer, teaching artist, adjudicator, 200-Hour Registered Yoga Teacher, and Certified Personal Trainer. She graduated from Ohio University (OU) with a BFA in Dance & Choreography and a Minor in Psychology in May 2015. While at OU, Logan received the Fine Arts Award fully-funded grant to study Ohad Naharin's Gaga technique in Italy, as well as having her choreography selected for the American College Dance Association Gala Concert. After graduating, Logan spent a year in Mumbai, India, where she trained with Navdhara India Dance Theatre under the direction of Ashley Lobo, Yehuda Ma’or, and Yuko Harada, and provided holistic dance classes for women and children living in the Red Light Area. Logan then moved to Brooklyn, NY where her past performances include stints as a company member, collaborator, and freelance dancer with Josh Pacheco Dance Theatre, Chris Ferris & Dancers, BABEL Movement, Olivia Dwyer Dance Projects, Marika Brussell, mad.plum movement, Kelley Donovan & Dancers, The Physical Plant, Sandra Kramerova & Artists, The Median Movement, and Doug Neilson. In 2019, Logan founded Wild She Dances.
Logan is the former Studio & Company Director of The Brooklyn Dance Centers, where she trained students now attending The Julliard School, The Hartt School at University of Hartford, SUNY Purchase, University at Buffalo, as well as LaGuardia High School and Fort Hamilton High School's Joffrey Ballet Program. Additionally, Logan taught in public schools throughout New York City with Dancewave, where she was also Company Manager and a teaching artist. During the pandemic, Logan taught at multiple schools in Ohio, where she had the honor of serving as Associate Artistic Director for the Gary Geis Dance Company, her alma mater.
Logan relocated from Brooklyn, NY to Houston, TX in 2021 to fill the role of School Manager at Vitacca Ballet & School for Dance, Company Manager of Vitacca Ballet, and Assistant Director of Vitacca's Young Artist Performance Company. She danced with local artists and companies including Karen Stokes Dance, Isabella Vik, Lindsey Cortner, Frame Dance, performed as a guest artist with Armitage Gone! Dance and Houston Contemporary Dance Company, and served as a Teaching Artist and Program Coordinator in local schools with Hope Stone Inc., a mindful arts education outreach program. In 2022, Logan was one of four to be selected as a Dance Source Houston Ambassador.
In early 2024, Logan planted roots in Austin, TX where she co-owns a small local business, Klerje Coffee, and continues to perform, create, and teach.
