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Creating performances and workshops that use movement to process life experiences and embody transformation.
Breaking free from her conservative religious upbringing and strict ballet training, Becca Hoback explores identity and the emotional body through contemporary dance.
DancEast Collective’s
Artist in Residence
Creating new work for the DancEast Company, developing solo work, creating a piece for DancEast Youth Ensemble, and offering workshops and classes open to the community.
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“Hoback is possessed with a singular and paradoxical elegance that’s simultaneously fluid and angular, sophisticated and raw.”
- CLAY STEAKLEY, OUTER VOICE
Biography
Becca Hoback is an independent contemporary dance theater performer, choreographer, and producer based in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Becca developed Enactor Productions to create performances and movement workshops that process live experiences and embody transformation. She worked with collaborators Ana Maria Lucaciu, Ben Green, Roy Assaf, and Ariel Freedman to curate the first Enactor performance program, which premiered at OZ Arts in June 2021. She is passionate about promoting physical awareness, empathy, and empowerment through movement workshops. The solo work she has curated, collaborated on, and choreographed has been programmed locally in Nashville and internationally at festivals + residencies in Europe and the Middle East.
In 2020, she received a Tennessee Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship for her solo work. Becca received the writer’s choice for “Best Movement Artist” in the Nashville Scene’s 2022 “Best of Nashville” awards. She received the “Pitch Perfect” award at the culmination of the Periscope Artist Entrepreneurship Program 2022 hosted by the Arts and Business Council of Greater Nashville. Becca received the audience award at SOLOCOREOGRAFICO Torino 2022 for her solo performance of Rendering. She has participated in the Metro Nashville Arts Commission's THRIVE program as an awardee (2019, 2023) and project mentor (2022). Becca worked as as PYDANCE’s rehearsal director and creative producer for the Kindling Arts Festival’s presentation of “Murder of Crows,” which won the “Best Dance Performance” in Nashville Scene’s 2024 “Best of Nashville” awards.
In addition to her solo choreography, Becca has created works for the Istanbul Fringe Festival, Middle Tennessee State University’s Dance Department, Kindling Art Festival’s “The Girlhood Project,” Clay Steakley’s poetry/film/performance collaborations from The Fire Cycle, Sangeetha Ekambaram’s contemporary opera/dance performances for Visionary Vocal Collaborative, and student works at Harpeth Hall girls’ school. Becca is the inaugural DancEast Collective Artist in Residence.
Becca is an independent producer and active collaborator with local Nashville artists. She regularly assists her colleagues creatively and administratively in launching their independent projects. In 2023, she established the first Enactor Productions Incubator as catalyst for independent and underrepresented professional artists in the Nashville contemporary performance scene, aspiring to connect them to new audiences.
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Becca is a foundational collaborator, rehearsal director, and performer for Nashville company, PYDANCE. She was the choreographic assistant for the full evening dance production “The Hat”, a collaboration between Jo Strømgren Kompani and Polish Dance Theatre, 2023. Becca + Enactor Productions is a part of the TNPresenters network. She was in Beth Morrison Projects’ Producers’ Academy cohort in 2023. Becca collaborated with violinist Alicia Enstrom and filmmaker Grant Claire on a conceptual series of soundscapes and kaleidoscopic films entitled Primordial. She was the creative producer, rehearsal director, and a performer in David Flores’ PRISM, 2021. She was a founding member of New Dialect, featured in the company as a performer, outreach workshop team leader, community and company class teacher, and choreographic assistant to artistic director. She has performed works by Rosie Herrera, Roy Assaf, León + Lightfoot, Marco Goecke, Fernando Melo, Yin Yue, Bryan Arias, Ana Maria Lucaciu, Chen-Wei Lee, Peter Chu, Ben Green, Paul Vasterling, Banning Bouldin, Lenin Fernandez, Emma Morrison, Rebecca Steinberg, David Flores, Becky Allen, Erin Kouwe, Asia Pyron, Crystal Peattie, and George R. Miller with Matilda Sakamoto. She previously worked with Nashville Ballet 2 and Montgomery Ballet. Becca trained at North Carolina School of the Arts.
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