After graduating from UC Berkeley in 2012, Megan was hired as the Office Manager for TDPS. She is now Program Associate, and her current duties include: course scheduling, enrollment, event coordination, and work-study supervision. She also teaches master classes on contact improvisation, dynamic partnering, creative movement, and release technique principles for the department.
In addition to working for TDPS, Megan Lowe (she/they) is a dancer, choreographer, performer, aerialist, singer-songwriter, filmmaker, teacher, and administrator of Chinese and Irish descent, making dance art in the San Francisco Bay Area, situated on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone land. Through Megan Lowe Dances, she creates courageous multidisciplinary dance works, rooted in care, that transform spaces with dynamic place-making/site-responsive dance, playful partner-work, and daring aerial/vertical dance. Megan is a recipient of 2 Izzie Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Performance, and her recent choreographies have been seen at YBCA, Legion of Honor, ODC, Fort Mason, and de Young, as well as in United States of Asian America Festival, SF Aerial Arts Festival, CAAMFest, SF Trolley Dances, and on KQED Live. Megan has performed with Flyaway Productions, Dance Brigade, Lenora Lee Dance, Scott Wells & Dancers, Lizz Roman & Dancers, and more. Megan is a teaching artist for Joe Goode Performance Group, BANDALOOP, and Flyaway. She regularly teaches contact improvisation, vertical dance, site-specific dance, and contemporary dance for organizations, schools, universities, and dance festivals around the Bay Area and California, and has also taught in Greece, Singapore, Ireland, and Japan. In addition to helping you out with your TDPS needs, if you have questions about dance opportunities after college, she can help you out.
Megan is incredibly grateful to be working for TDPS, which fosters the perfect environment for pursuing a career in the arts.