Donna Crump, an award-winning choreographer, actress, and performing artist from
New Orleans, Louisiana who has been dancing for over 30 years. I hold a BFA in Dance
from Tulane University and have also studied and created dance in New York, South
Africa with the First Physical Dance Theatre and in Brazil with the country's premier
dance company Grupo Corpo. I’ve served as the resident choreographer for the
Marigny Opera Ballet in New Orleans and is Artistic Director of my contemporary dance
company, Good Dance Since 1984. Good Dance has performed nationally in New
Orleans, Houston, Boston, Alabama, and more, receiving several art awards for Best
Choreography and Outstanding New Work. Donna also works in digital media art, filmmaking, and composing short films.

Since founding Good Dance in 2012, I’ve produced several full-length works, started the
pre-professional division of Good Dance, and starred in several commercials and films
alongside Oscar-winning and nominated directors Spike Lee and Garrett Bradley.
Crump played a lead role in the film America by Garrett Bradley which premiered at the
Sundance Film Festival in 2019. I quickly found my lead role touring several film
festivals and museum openings including Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, The
New Orleans Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art in NYC.
As a multi-faceted choreographer, artistic director, and performing artist my greatest gift
is engaging with my audience. I strive to create work that invokes feeling, action, and
conversation in the world. I believe dance starts with a feeling, ends with an action, and
lives in the soul.

My exceptional work with children and arts integration allows me to continue to develop
innovative approaches for mentoring students by way of dance. Through the years I
have had the opportunity to work with several different kids and some disabled, from
the hearing impaired to completely deaf to kids battling cerebral palsy. Dance is a universal
language that everyone can relate to, whether impaired or not. I have found that
showing students self-awareness through creative movement allows them to express
themselves more freely.