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I make dance work that explores the friction and harmony between improvisation and form; interested in the slippery spaces between structure and spontaneity, where chance, play, and momentum surface as acts of presence. I’m drawn to movement as a tool for emotional communication; an embodied language capable of shifting performer and viewer.

My research is rooted in the felt experience of performance: the radical act of seeing and being seen, the tension between authenticity and choreography, and how performance holds space for both ambiguity and clarity. I use dance to ask questions about presence, attention, queerness, and the boundary between control and surrender.

Current research/fixations: gentleness, gaze that follows the head, what qualifies as performance?, risk, absurdity, touch, movement as resistance, tiny sparks, strength and power in softness, silliness

I MADE THIS FOR YOU (2025)

Showing as a part of Drafting Dances at the Flynn – Burlington, VT

Dancer & Choreographer: Stephanie Schramm

Sound: It’s a Rainy Day On The Cosmic Shore by Ana Roxanne, I’m Every Sparkly Women by Ana Roxanne, Like a Rolling Stone by Bob Dylan

I made this for you (2025)

Work in progress showing from residency at Instinct Dance Festival – Burlington, VT

Dancer & Choreographer: Stephanie Schramm

Sound: It’s a Rainy Day On The Cosmic Shore by Ana Roxanne, I’m Every Sparkly Women by Ana Roxanne, Like a Rolling Stone by Bob Dylan

this is an active experiment – film version (2024)

Burlington, VT

Dancer: Stephanie Schramm

Sound: Ever New by Beverly Glenn-Copeland (reworked by Bon Iver & Flock Of Dimes), Substrata by Christopher Bissonnette, Traveling Light by Christopher Bissonnette

Work begins @ 24:23

Concurrence Sighting (2022)

Senior Thesis work presented at UMass Amherst – Amherst, MA

Dancers: Caroline Ball, Cole Ellsworth, Maxwell Fisher, Alec Galavotti, Carson Kelly, Hannah Lieberman, Sophia Maalouly, Lucy Rime, Sophie Schilling

Sound: Created and performed by Dakota Gill

8 (2021)

Amherst, MA

Dancer: Stephanie Schramm

Sound: Tenor Viol by Christopher Bissonnette, original poem by Stephanie Schramm

speak into the silence (2021)

Amherst, MA

Dancers: Nell Mancini, Sam Scott, Hannah Lieberman, Stephanie Schramm

Sound: Just Before Dawn by Sonnymoon, 22 (Over Soon) by Bon Iver