CHOREOGRAPHY
As a choreographer, I make work that dwells in the paradoxes of existence: the inevitability of coexisting truths, the multifarious meanings, politics, and stories of the body, and the poetics that reside therein. These concerns emerge as choreographic logics through movement, space, image, and duration, each holding contradiction without requiring resolution. I return to the paradigm of confines, where built, organic, and imagined structures become platforms through which my work exceeds spatial and conceptual limits into positions of possibility. I prefer choreographing for spaces outside the traditional theater. My work takes the form of happenings and set choreography in public spaces, galleries, pastures, scaling stairwells, or within window frames, as readily as it inhabits large proscenium theaters and intimate black boxes. Regardless of location, I create environments as if building a "nest"—a home the work can nuzzle into, or a mechanism through which walls begin to break down. At the crux of ambiguity and recognizable narrative, my work invites viewers to think, assemble fragments, and build their own relationship to stories that unfold, contradict, and disintegrate.

A creature of the garden and cellar (2026)

Philadelphia Dance Projects, 'Dance Up Close' series curated by Terry Fox (Premiere)
Conceptual Director, Choreographer, Performer: Tammy Carrasco
Core Collaborators and Performers: Tamar Gutherz, Chloe Marie
Core Collaborator and Composer: Devin Arne
"A Creature of the Garden and Cellar illustrates a strain of intimacy usually reserved for loved ones. It’s an affection that seems second nature, yet the dynamic is also contentious, playful, strenuous, and a haven…the ambiguity itself is nourishment I didn’t know I needed."
- Caitlin Green, Thinking Dance (2026)


Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Cherry Street Pier (2024 Premiere)
Near/Far series, curated by Silvana Cardell, Cardell Studio (2024)
Philly Dance Share Summer Intensive, Headlong/Mascher (2025)
Wild Horizon Festival, Cherry Street Pier (2026)
Conceptual Director, Choreographer, Performer: Tammy Carrasco
Core Collaborators and Performers: Tamar Gutherz, Chloe Marie
Core Collaborator and Composer: Devin Arne
"Set amid the industrial shell of a now thriving multipurpose complex, Carrasco’s negotiations with contained and wide open spaces draw intense focus from her observers... dancers spiral and gyre around each other, replacing each other often and with matching intensity... Observers are swept up in their ouija board trajectories that nudge us gently down the pier. (Dancers) rush into and around each other with an interlacing tornado pattern embodied with breathy-yet-cutting phrases."
-- Nikolai McKenzie, "At Sunset" (2024)


Bryn Mawr College, Spring Dance Concert (2023 Premiere)
Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Icebox Performance Space (2024)
Conceptual Director, Choreographer, Performer: Tammy Carrasco
Performers: Tammy Carrasco, Kuankuan Hu, Chloe Marie, Piper Rolfes
This work explores the profound wisdom and meaning-making of our subconscious, where motherhood is posited as a cradling of our own inner child. This maternal holding is framed by unbridled curiosity, queer parenthood, and collaged meaning. From within a metaphysical realm of dreams, some of which are danced and others spoken aloud, athleticism and spontaneity bring viewers into the present while queering meaning-making through a quilt of text and movement, all in the presence of a glistening disco ball.
"...beautiful and necessary, never heavy handed... thought provoking in its implications for how we relate to each other as individuals and as artists."
-- DC Metro Arts, Structure of Us (2017)
ARCHIVE
Floating Field (2023 premiere)
American Dance Festival Faculty Concert, Reynolds Theater, NC (2023)
WestFest, Upper Level, Martha Graham Studio Theater, NYC (2025)
Desert Picnic (2020 premiere)
American Dance Festival Faculty Concert, Reynolds Theater, NC (2024)
WestFest, Upper Level, Martha Graham Studio Theater, NYC (2025)
View From Here (2018 premiere)
Rochester Fringe Festival, School of the Arts, Main Stage (2018)
Jennifer Mueller / The Works, NYC (2016)
Are You My Mother? (2017 premiere)
Triskelion Arts, Wax Works, NYC
Nimbus Arts Center, NJ
Structure of Us (2017 premiere)
Rochester Fringe Festival, Makers Gallery and Studio, Rochester, NY
Charm City Fringe Festival, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD




