Michelle Boulé
Space Grant (2012/2013)

A woman with dark, wavy hair, dressed in a shiny red top, makes a wide arm gesture in front of a lake and the silhouette of distant mountains
[2024 updated bio]

After 21 years in NYC, Michelle Boulé relocated to Missoula, MT, where she runs an international coaching+healing practice and continues dancing and creating, in her natural surroundings and with her long-standing collaborators. She has received commissions and presentations from multiple New York venues and beyond, including The Chocolate Factory, Danspace Project, Triple Canopy, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Summer Stages Dance @ICA Boston, River to River Festival, The Met Breuer (with Okkyung Lee), The Kitchen, Mount Tremper Arts Festival, and ISSUE Project Room. Awards received include: Distinguished Legacy Award from the University of Illinois, NYFA Choreography Fellowship, Boekelheide Creativity Award, Jerome Foundation Travel & Study Grant, New Music USA Grant, and residencies from Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, MacDowell, Yaddo, Bemis Center, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Gibney, Movement Research, Dance Ireland, and MT Open AIR. She is also a “Bessie” Award-winning performer, having collaborated with Miguel Gutierrez, Bebe Miller, John Jasperse, Deborah Hay, John Scott, and Aine Stapleton, amongst others. She has danced, taught, and choreographed in over 25 countries, and has a deep passion for helping creatives, artists, and leaders prosper in their authentic creative expression. She has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Dance Magazine, Bloomberg Businessweek, Thrive Global, and The Today Show. With nearly 30 years of practice in somatic therapies, energy medicine, mindset psychology, Human Design, and spirituality, the heart of all her work is devotion and LOVE.

michelleboule.com, @michelle.boule