About me
Marquis L. Engle is the managing director of RAWdance, a 20-year-old and award-winning contemporary dance company known for transforming theaters and public spaces through a mix of performance, curation, collaboration, and film. The company’s charged and nuanced works have been presented by the Joyce Theater, Jacob’s Pillow, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Dance St. Louis, ODC Theater, the Singapore Fringe, Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, ‘62 Center for Theatre and Dance, and more throughout the U.S. and in Asia. RAWdance has presented works by more than 150 Bay Area artists through its CONCEPT series salon since 2007, and over 40 additional site-specific works through its curation of YBG ChoreoFest from 2017 to 2022. In 2019, the company expanded to two coasts, staying rooted in San Francisco while expanding to New York’s Hudson Valley.