Rebecca Pappas makes projects that address the body as an archive for personal and social memory. Her work has toured nationally and internationally and she has received residencies from Yaddo and Djerassi, and funding from the Indiana Arts Commission, the Mellon Foundation, the Zellerbach Family Foundation, The Clorox Foundation, and Choreographers in Mentorship Exchange (CHIME). For four years she served as an Assistant Professor of Dance at Ball State University where she emphasized the role of dance in global discourse, and labored to cultivate curiosity and inquiry as tools for citizenship. She is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance at Trinity College and Guest Faculty in the Masters in Social Practice Art at University of Indianapolis.

Creative Work:

Parade2017 (2015-present). Parade2017 is an ongoing investigation that uses the physical structure of the parade and its unifying social function to make new, publicly engaged, movement art works.

Couds and Claves/Plastic Flow (2013-2016). A series of group improvisational scores embodying the instability of glacial landscapes.