Coco Karol,  is a New York based dancer, choreographer, teacher, and artist. She is the founder and director of Red Sole Productions, a platform for cross-disciplinary performance works. With a BFA in Dance from Tisch School of the Arts and an MFA from Hollins University, Coco is particularly interested in how we create meaning of experiences and connect to others. To that end, she focuses on aspects of human connectivity—such as care, communication, and effort— that provide a poetic intersection with physicality. Using immersive installations, sculpture, sound, and visual art she choreographs experiential performance events that invite a conversation between personal and shared experience.

Coco has had the privilege of working for Misnomer Dance Theater, Cherylyn Lavagnino Dance Company, and Christopher Williams, as well as being a part of projects by Bill Young, Jose Navas, and Steven Petronio. Karol has created work with musicians including Bjork, Ryan Lott (Son Lux), Koh Ohtera, Luna Cholong Kang, Daniel Carter, Minna Choi, and Ear to Mind collective; and visual artists including photographer Steven Sebring, sculptor Eve Bailey, architect Marcos Zotes, stereoscopic artist Gerald Marks, videographer Azmi Mert Erdem, and designer Louda Larrain. Her work has been shown internationally as well as across New York at Carnegie Hall, Symphony Space, BAX, Ibeam, Spectrum, D.U.M.B.O Under the Bridge Arts Festival, New York Studio Gallery, Galapagos, Death By Audio, and curated by AUNTS. She has taught movement workshops in San Francisco to musicians of the Magik*Magik Orchestra, in Istanbul about movement and social movement, and in Roanoke investigating non-verbal communication and gestures of care.

Coco is a hospice volunteer with VNSNY and a dedicated teacher of many styles of movement. Her work is informed by her studies and practice in improvisation, butoh, authentic movement, meditation, and the belief that we move to move, and to be moved.

In her residency at the Egg she will be preparing to premiere two new works in October for the Damn Good Work series at Triskelion Arts in Brooklyn. She will be spending her time playing with movement in the wearable sand sculptures of Lena Takamori, while dancing with Rakyia Orange to the wild compositions of Sxip Shirey, and making magic with performer/composer Lacy Rose!