Rebecca Pappas creates choreographic and social practice projects that excavate the body as an archive for personal and social memory. Her work is interdisciplinary and experimental and often created collaboratively with filmmakers, visual artists, poets, and scientists. Her dances have toured nationally and internationally and she has received residencies at Hambidge, Yaddo, and Djerassi, and funding from the New England Foundation for the Arts, the Indiana Arts Commission, the CT Office of the Arts, the Mellon Foundation, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Zellerbach Family Foundation, and Choreographers in Mentorship Exchange (CHIME). Her writing has appeared in edited collections and journals, and she is co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Jewishness and Dance. She is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Theater and Dance at Trinity College. In recent years she has been expanding her practice to include quilting, community singing, and (slowly) modern Greek language.

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