Rowan Salem

Rowan Salem (MFA) is a dance artist and educator originally from Massachusetts, currently based in Ohio. Rowan earned a Masters of Fine Arts in Choreography and Performance as a Teaching Fellow/Gretchen Moran Scholar at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. Her work and teaching are influenced by Humphrey/Limón technique, contact improvisation, compositional improvisation, and floorwork forms.

She is a recipient of ArtsWave’s 2023 Black and Brown artists grant for her work, Viewpoints Embodied: Middle Eastern Voices in Cincinnati. Current teaching affiliations include Xavier University, Northern Kentucky University, and Cincinnati Ballet Academy. Rowan is a co-founder of Synergy Dance Series, funded by ArtsWave and National Endowment for the Arts.