Jeffery Hancock, MFA, performs, teaches, choreographs, and designs movement and clothing to move in all over the US and abroad. Since 1990, dancing for River North, Hubbard Street, Same Planet Different, The Lyric Opera and others, his dance and design life collided, supported and informed each other, and shaped his path as a teaching artist. Curiosity about the semiotics of movement and clothing and their mutual influence has fueled his long history of research and exploration. Recent performance collaborations: EX/BODY wake, dam, steel - Molly Shanahan/Mad Shak, Of Whales, Time and Your Last Attempt to Reach Me…- with Molly Shanahan/Mad Shak, Sword-fighting and Other Things to Do With Your Manhood, Volledig with Rob Welcher, And We Shall Be Rid of Them with Molly Shanahan. Recent solo work: Verge: thresholds of coalescence and decay - Denison University, Verge: at the gilded edge of loss... Hollins University, Verge: the edge of chaos and becoming Northwestern University. Recent design: Tap Secret – Chicago Tap Theatre, Marginalia - Khecari, Lil’ Pine Nut – Dance Crash, I’m Fine – Peter Carpenter, Iyami - Qudus Onikeku, When Bodies Ring - Peter Carpenter, Surfacing - Margi Cole, This Is (Not) My Body - Wini Haun. He is a 2020 Ragdale residency awardee, has received grants from Illinois Arts Council, and was nominated for Ruth Page awards in choreography and performance. He is a member of AEA, AGMA, AGVA, the National Dance Educators Organization, and the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association.