ABOUT PIONEER WINTER

Pioneer Winter (he/they, b. 1987) is a Miami-based artist working in choreography, filmmaking, writing, directing, and social practice.

He founded Pioneer Winter Collective in 2016, an intergenerational and physically integrated dance-theater company creating devised, image-driven, and durational works for theaters, museums, public spaces, and the screen.

Winter treats bodies, text, objects, sound, and space as choreographic materials. His work often begins with memory, personal history, cultural inheritance, and the traces people leave in one another. He is interested in expanding what dance can be and who can be recognized as virtuosic within it.

Recent works include Apollo, which uses live-feed video, archive, and choreography to explore mentorship, memory, and lineage, and In the Belly of the Bird, a somapoem on latent grief taking form as a book-object, score, and choreography.

Winter’s work has been presented by American Dance Festival, Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, Miami Light Project, The Wolfsonian–FIU, Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, and Norton Museum of Art. He is a 2025 Dance/USA Fellow, a Knight Arts Champion, and a Dance Magazine “25 to Watch.” Support for his work includes Creative Capital, the Mellon Foundation, the New England Foundation for the Arts, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and National Performance Network.

Winter has curated and directed ScreenDance Miami Festival since 2017, and is Associate Teaching Professor of Dance and Senior Fellow in the Honors College at Florida International University.

Pioneer makes dances of the future, where every story, every body, every way of moving through the world is free.