Kristen Rulifson

Hello! I am a dance maker and movement researcher. My creative work has been received throughout the Bay Area and greater North West, Turkey, and Mexico . She received her Bachelor's (UC Davis, 2014) in Neurobiology Physiology and Behavior and Dramatic Arts, and continued my education as an Expressive Arts Therapist at the Tamalpa Institute.

I am committed to understanding how one’s somatic ecology is shaped by our natural and artificial environments and how this feeds evolving cultures.

Kristen is currently an Axis Syllabus Teacher Candidate and student at the Yat Bentley School of Performance. She currently is an Emerging Artist Resident at Shawl Anderson (2020) as well as facilitating eco-socialsomatic research through the Finnish Hall Artist and Activist Residency for 2020. Rulifson was a Lead Artist at SAFEhouse (2017-2018) and was selected for the Mark Foehringer Young Choreographers' Forum, 2017. She has received recognition through the Institute of Theatre Dance and Performance at UC Davis (2014), and is an Arties Award recipient (Sacramento, 2016). In her movement practice she excavates the unique and momentous ecologies that surface between human, environment, and imagination. In the past 2 years she has performed and collaborated with various Bay Area companies such as KD MovingGround, Piñata Collective, Scott Wells & Dancers, Footloose Presents, Artship, and Dugway Proving Ground.