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Garris Muñoz, originally from Tulsa, Oklahoma, trained under Troy Herring and Cory Barnette at South Tulsa Dance Company before moving to Los Angeles in 2023. He is currently in his fourth year at the USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance, where his training spans contemporary, jazz, ballet, improvisation, modern, street & social forms, and Gaga.

At USC Kaufman, Garris has performed works by Jiří Kylián, Bret Easterling, Jackie Kopcsak, Spenser Theberge, Janie Taylor, and Rafael Bonachela. He performed alongside Ballet BC in Shahar Binyamini’s Bolero X and performed Martha Graham’s Acts of Light: Ritual to the Sun as part of the Martha Graham Centennial Celebration at the Soraya. His recognitions include the YoungArts National Award in Contemporary/Modern and the Laguna Dance Emerging Artist Scholarship.

His summer training has included programs with Nederlands Dans Theater, Ballet BC 44, Orsolina28, Jacob’s Pillow, and GagaLab in New York and Italy. Through these experiences, he has engaged with repertory and new work by Crystal Pite, Marco Goecke, Sharon Eyal, Mehdi Walerski, Wayne McGregor, Fernando Magadan, William Forsythe, Jennifer Archibald, Ohad Naharin, and Luca Tessarini.

Drawn to sensation and feeling in movement, Garris uses his physical range to explore distinctive approaches to performance and choreography. He gravitates toward contemporary work that is cutting-edge, risky, and defiant. His choreographic work has been presented by Los Angeles Dance Project and Westside Dance Project. Most recently, he participated in La Biennale di Venezia’s College Danza, led by Wayne McGregor, performing world premieres by Maxine Doyle, Molissa Fenley, Julia Litwin & Julia Bentkowska, and Studio Wayne McGregor’s creative teams. Looking ahead, Garris hopes to join a contemporary dance company and continue developing as a performer and choreographer through work rooted in curiosity and transformation.