Morgan Thorson is a dance-maker, performer, and artist based in Minneapolis, MN, USA. Twice receiving the Sage Award for Outstanding Choreography (2006 & 2007), and a MacDowell Colony Fellow (2018, 2012), Morgan’s honours also include the Doris Duke Performing Artist Award (2016), and United States Artist (2012), Guggenheim (2010), and McKnight (2009, 2002) Fellowships. Her dance-work has been commissioned by Walker Art Center, On The Boards, ODC, PS 122 and Maui Arts & Culture Center. She has received support from the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (2016, 2011, 2009), and in 2015 her installation Still Life was featured in Local Time, a three-month exhibition at the Weisman Art Museum. Her most recent work, Group Choreography, 2021, was part of a visual art exhibition at SIM in Iceland. From 2010 - 2016 she was a Creative Campus Fellow at Wesleyan University where she engaged students and professors in interdisciplinary practices, developing pedagogy in Dance, Archaeology, and Religious Studies. She is a Certified Skinner Releasing Technique practitioner.