Milo Longenecker
Choreographer | Theatremaker | Scholar
About
Milo Longenecker is a choreographer, theatremaker and scholar based in DC by way of NYC. He holds a BFA in theatre from NYU Tisch. Longenecker’s dance background includes jazz, ballet, tap, and modern. He also specializes in movement practices at the intersection of dance and theatre including Viewpoints, Suzuki, Butoh, and contact improvisation. Longenecker creates live performance that is visceral, athletic, and irreverent. His research works to materialize the immaterial, locate authentic embodiment, resist authority, and explore landscapes of communal catharsis through the connection between the physical and emotional bodies. His choreography has appeared Off-Broadway, on the concert stage, in academic theatre, and at festivals.
Longenecker has collaborated on the development of new works at Labyrinth Theater Company, Pipeline Theater Company, New York Theatre Workshop, LaMaMa, and beyond. His acting resume includes roles at The Public Theater, Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, The Connelly, Ars Nova, Theatre Row, 92NY, Joe’s Pub, and 54 Below. Prior to his academic career at the University of Maryland, Longenecker served as a Guest Artist at Pace University’s Sands College of Performing Arts.
In 2026, he presented his paper “Liminalia: the Queer Interdisciplinarity of Falling in Performance” at the Pop Culture Association conference in Atlanta, performed his work “Divining Instrument” in the Queer Butoh Festival at The Brick in Brooklyn, and presented his hour-long interdisciplinary solo show Dance Yrself Clean, 1518 at the Atlas Performing Arts Center in DC in collaboration with DC’s Solas Nua and Dublin’s Fishamble New Play Company. His work “Resistance Training” will be presented at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center as part of the Clarice’s NextDANCE showcase in September, and he will present new work as part of TDPS’ Experimental Performance Series in November.
In 2027, Longenecker will movement direct technocelibites by Scout Backus at Theater MITU in NYC, and The Wolves at The University of Maryland’s school of Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies.
Movement + Dance
As performing artists, our work begins at the site of the body. When the channel between impulse and action is clear, creativity flows freely and we can express ourselves authentically. I practice and teach impulse-generated movement as an integral part of acting, choreography, and self-actualization. Moving from idea to embodiment is what separates performance from other art forms. When we use our human instrument to move energy through the space we share with an audience, we are touching one another even in the absence of physical contact. As performing artists, we move and our audience is moved.
From facilitating movement-based devising processes to directing and choreographing fully staged productions, I empower artists to integrate movement into their performance practices across medium and genre, throughout the creative process and across their careers.
In addition to choreography and movement direction, I also offer workshops and private coachings to fulfill a wide variety of movement and dance needs.
To get yourself or your project moving, reach out via the contact info at the bottom of this page.
DANCE REEL
PRODUCTIONS
SHOW ME ETERNITY
ANTIGONICK
SOFT BUTTER
BLISS STREET
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
SKIN FLICK CITY
KING LEAR
QUILTBAG
HEADSHOTS
IIMAGES COURTESY OF: LPC PHOTO (LEILANI CARR)
Contact
MILO.LONGENECKER@GMAIL.COM