Beth Twigs is a choreographer, educator, and multimodal dance artist with over twenty years of experience in performance, creation, and teaching. She holds an MFA in Dance from the University of Washington, where her research centered on consent, gender dynamics, and embodiment in ballet partnering. Beth is currently a full-time lecturer at the University of Wyoming, where she teaches ballet, contemporary modern, and compositional courses while actively contributing to conference planning and departmental programming.

Beth began her professional performance career with Ballet Austin, where she danced for a decade under Artistic Director Stephen Mills. Her repertory includes works by Crystal Pite, Nicolo Fonte, KT Nelson, Thang Dao, Thaddeus Davis, Gregory Dolbashian and many others. She has toured nationally and internationally, performing in major venues including the Kennedy Center and Arsht Center, as well as worked as a freelance dancer in both San Francisco and London, UK.

As a choreographer, Beth’s work has been commissioned by companies such as Vitacca Ballet, Chamber Dance Company, Seattle Dance Collective, and Boston Dance Theater’s trainee program; as well as presented at leading festivals such as Seattle International Dance Festival, Austin Dance Festival, New Century Dance Project, and Dumbo Dance Festival. Her choreography explores layered narratives and physical risk, often rooted in themes of power, intimacy, and consent.

Beth is also the founder and artistic director of Twigs + Co, formerly known as Seattle-based nonprofit dance company The Gray. She regularly presents at academic and professional conferences including Corps de Ballet International, NDEO, and CoDEO, and her teaching and research integrate professional dance practices with academic inquiry. Her work continues to evolve at the intersection of education, embodiment, and creative risk.