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Graham Shelor (He/Him) is an Atlanta based movement artist, improviser, and dance educator. Raised in Tampa, Florida, his dance training has formally developed through contemporary, vogue femme, modern, ballet, jazz, and hip-hop forms/techniques.

Graham holds a B.A in dance from Middlebury College where he had the privilege of training under Christal Brown, Laurel Jenkins, Lida Winfield, Kari Borni, Meshi Chavez, and Michael Abbatiello. Graham has choreographed works which have been shown at Fall for Fall Dance Festival (GA), Middlebury College, the New England Conference of American College Dance Association (VT), and NewGrounds Dance Festival (FL). He has been featured as a dancer in works created by Tori Lawrence, Monica Hogan, Maia Sauer, Dahyun Kin, Atarius Armstrong, Yoshito Sakuraba, and Courtney McClendon. Currently, Graham is a company member of ALA Dance and Monica Hogan Danceworks. He is also a member of the Kiki House of Bodega, competing at underground kiki balls in Atlanta and beyond in the butch queen vogue femme category. Graham has shared his love for dance through teaching a wide variety of ages and abilities in studios and schools in Tampa, Middlebury, and Atlanta. He has recently joined Moving in the Spirit as a teaching artist in addition to being on faculty at Dauphin Dance Center. 

Graham's work transcends community boundaries by fostering radical dialogue through collaborative movement experiences. He is dedicated to creating performance and teaching spaces that challenge individual movement paradigms. His research explores the limitations imposed on our bodies, the factors that inhibit our movement, and the ways to liberate ourselves to experience movement patterns freely. He examines this relationship through the lenses of race and geography. Graham's praxis and research in this area are recognized by the Alexander Twilight 1823 Diversity and Community Leadership Award and the Mahalingaiah Family Dance Prize, awarded by Middlebury College for his work on movement repression and liberatory dance pedagogy.