Piper Morrison is a dancer, improviser, and image maker with a background in Contact Improvisation, Aikido, and contemporary dance. She is curious lately about what lies on the outside edges of risky weight sharing, modulation of tension and release, and finding where softness and rigor can coexist in the body and self. 

Piper recently received a Bachelor’s in Dance and American Studies from Oberlin College with a focus in screen-dance. During her time there, In 2021, Friends Seminary presented her short film LAPSE in “Alone Together: A Concert of Dance on Video” which was also a winner in the Experimental Film category in the 2020 Josiah Media Festival. In 2021, a segment of her screen-dance experiments were set to a score by Sasha Frere-Jones and presented in Meredith Monk/The House Foundation’s Virtual Gala, CONNECTED: Voicing Resilience & Optimism. In 2023, Piper was a recipient of the Oberlin XARTS fund for her film Up To The Light, co-directed with Jonah Belsky, which was selected for the 2023 Reason d’etre Dance Film Festival. While at Oberlin, Piper worked closely with Dances for Solidarity, spearheading a chapter in Oberlin, OH and supporting the project as their Communications Coordinator.

Currently, she is working on various movement direction projects and teaching K-12 movement and adult Contact Improvisation classes in New York City.