NORA PRICE
∙ SALT LAKE CITY, UT∙
Nora Price is a multidisciplinary filmmaker, dance artist, experimental musician, visual artist, and active collaborator based in Salt Lake City. Her work interrogates the material ephemera of movement practice and sonic structures of field capture and improvisation.
EDUCATION
University of Utah, September 2009-2014
BA, Linguistics, cum laude
Minor, Mandarin Chinese
Minor, Middle Eastern Studies
Foreign Language Area Studies Fellow, 2011-2012, 2014
TESOL Certification
University of Utah, August 2023-Present
MFA program, Film and Media Arts
Screendance Certification
TEACHING EXPERIENCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION
University of Utah, TESOL track Practicum, Global Pathways classroom lead, 2014
University of Utah, Department of Film and Media Arts, Instructor, incl: Introduction to Film, History of Film to 1952, Making Movies, August 2023-Present
SELECTED ARTS EXPERIENCE
SB Dance Company, Curbside Theater, performing member, 2023-present
Music Projects: Brain Bagz, KLUB, Goldie and the Guise, The Red Bennies, The 8eaut1ful5, Sculpture Club, ABC Sadman, Daytime Lover, Lord Vox, Cathy Foy and the Mellows, Sympathy Pain, Ambles (Hetaera), Solid Air Ensemble, nora mal, Price Prymek Fuchs trio
Doom Lounge, percussion, feat. experimental house band Jazz Jaguars, local music archivists, volunteer hosts of bi-weekly local music & performance art resident invitational, 2017-2022
Durian Durian, performing art ensemble, musician/songwriter/choreographer/dancer, 2017-2022
Salt Lake Arts Council, contract Artist Services Coordinator & Arts Events Education Coordinator (Living Traditions coordination cut due to COVID), 2019-2020
Municipal Ballet Company, ballet, performing company member/choreographer 2016-2019
Gileadi Dance Company, modern, performing company member, 2017
NOW-ID interdisciplinary dance + design company, Intern and workshop coordinator, 2016-2017
Milwaukee Ballet II, professional second company, 2008-2009
Recent Commissions
Pray for Flowers, “Wait for Days, Stay for Flowers,” composer/musician, for choreographer LeGrand Lolo, Allium Movers’ InBetween Everything, August 2025
A Cat in the Classroom, original looped and layered musical vignettes, scoring Samuel B. Hanson’s Dance MFA Thesis evening, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, July 2025
Waxing Poets, “Aha ha,” Sock Opera Dance, original licensed music, American College Dance Association, February 2025
Lightscatter, for Utah Poet Laureate Lisa Bickmore’s multimodal Lightscatter Press, Ashley Anderson’s The Windy Gap reimagined for camera, filmed, scored, edited, directed by Nora Price, text-integrated via QR code in Derek J.G. Williams’ Reading Water, published May 2025
Parable Bodies, additional tracking, installation by Moses Williams, UMOCA, April 2024
“From the Borderlands to the Roots,” voice tracking, intermedia dance work by 2025 Guggenheim Fellow Stephanie Garcia, Sorenson Unity Center, October 2023
On Film/ in Film
Ecphorie, Labocine, “Archive” Issue, Science New Wave digital film magazine, January 2026
Lightscatter, screened Monday Movement Lab, February 2025; The Clubhouse, March 2025
Preparation [first stigmata], multichannel projection dir. and edited Nora Price, DP Ryan Ross, live abstract foley and musical score performed by Nora Price, Sunday Drip, April 2025, Live/Wired Performance Cinema Festival, May 2025
Wastetower, Jumpcut, dir. and edited Nora Price, UMOCA, April 2025
Corriente Alterna, 2nd camera videographer, ProArtes Mexico art series, April 10-21
Armilla, screendance excerpting Calvino’s Invisible Cities, performer/ choreographer Nora Price, scored and directed by Nora Price & Ryan Ross, 801 Salon, March 2024; 12 Minutes Max, February 2025
Bunion Head, queer ballet body horror narrative short, dir. Nora Price, 801 Salon, March 2024
this is the ephemera of the studio [in a nondescript corner], performance document filmed with gratitude in Steven Chodoriwsky’s Finch Lane East gallery exhibition, dir., editing, score Nora Price, DP Ryan Ross, screened at 12 Minutes Max, SLCPL Main Library, August 2023; The Leonardo rooftop, and live accompaniment, April 2024; 801 Salon, March 2024
“Nothing” performer, 16MM screendance, dir. Ryan Ross for musician Josaleigh Pollett, 2023
This Whole Time, “New collaborations between musicians and dancers,” screendance, performance and score/sound design, September 2022
small mal, “Only the Lonely,” screendance, loveDANCEmore residency year 1, May 2021
Drift, A Thesis Film by Elizabeth Lowe, performer, 2020
Permission to Feel, dir. Sage Bennett, performer, 2020
The Back And Forth Part, Utah salt flats, dir. Dawn Borchardt, DP Dan Bosler, music by Nora Price/Durian Durian, choreography & performance by Nora Price and Emily Snow, 2019
Don’t Let Go, Utah salt flats, dir. Alexander Woodward, performer, 2016
Publication
Labocine, “Archive” Issue, Ecphorie, Science New Wave digital film magazine, January 2026
Lightscatter Press, for Utah Poet Laureate Lisa Bickmore’s multimodal press, within Derek J.G. Williams’ Reading Water, published May 2025
loveDANCEmore, dance performance review and criticism journal, writer/contributor 2017-present (cross-published in 15 Bytes)
Halophyte Collective, issue III- Collaboration, visual collaborative representation of movement study and technical dance notation, 5/2020
Torpor House, Social Distancing, A Global Community Publication, dance improvisation process photograph, 5/2020; Grayscale, pen and ink interpretation of Bausch’s Rite of Spring, Benesh dance notation, and stage plot schema, 2/2021
Cinemeye Journal no. 1, The Feminine Lens, ed. Elizabeth Lowe, University of Utah, “My Xiu Xiu”, personal essay on director Joan Chen and China’s Fifth Generation Filmmakers, 2020
Hear Utah Music, Salt Lake City Public Library, “Dancing Again,” 2022, “small mal,” 2022, “This is Not my Body,” 2024
Broadcast 2: Memo, Cached Media, longform audio collage, July 2025
Performance, selected
A Score for No Film, an experimental music series in conjunction with Altered States in the Acid West, UMOCA, January 2026
Singularity, curated by Sunday Drip, impromptu improvisational music ensembles, January 2026
Driftsone, An evening of drone and minimalist music, Lake Mary trio for prepared acoustic guitars, November 2025
Sunday Drip, Briana Gillet trio, aerial movement, projection, live mixed structured improvised flugelhorn, and Lake Mary trio, prepared minimalist acoustic guitar and bells, October 2025
Shoreline Swell, Sorenson Unity Center, “Multidisciplinary performances for Great Salt Lake,” original live score, October 2025
A Festivella, Yardwork Presents, Listening Room on Pierpont, July 2025
Exploring the Narrative Voice of the Trumpet: A Historical and Interdisciplinary Examination, International Trumpet Guild Conference, Libby Gardner Concert Hall, May 2025
Roots, Original contemporary pole, live score, and screendance, choreographed and performed by Morgan Phillips, composed, performed, and film by Nora Price, Atelier Mill, Oct. 2024; 12 Minutes Max, October 2024; 801 Salon @ West Main Studio, November 2024; Church & State, April 2025; Leon Art Gallery and the Town Hall Collaborative, Denver Colorado, March 2025
Alleyways Amplified, The Blocks, Eccles Theater, fashion show live score, July 2024
Moonstone of Memory, evening-length original danceworks by Tara McArthur (Ririe-Woodbury, NOW-id), live score by Nora Price and Chaz Prymek (Fuubutsushi, Lake Mary), May 2024
Nora Mal 801 Salon, Fountain Records, Solo evening, three-part screendance screening, film loop interlude, and live original score, March 2024
Frolic, Emerge, Repertory Dance Theater, Rose Wagner Theater, live score, April 2024
Missed Connection, This Whole Time, “new collaborations between musicians and dancers,” screendance, performance and original music/sound design, with Edison Corvera, Sugar Space Warehouse, September 2023; “Radical Joy” group show, Under the Umbrella, December 2024
Hidden But Not Concealed, performance art group show, musician/emcee, December 2022
Experimental Sound Studio Chicago, In Particulates, curated by Prof. Milad Mozari, “small crossing” ambient guitar & cyanotype process exposure video art, February 2021
Deseret Experimental Opera, 100 Years Hence, full score composer & musician, March 2021
Life Relegated, as “Canyonlands”, May 2019; Sample Series, “A Backstage History of the Ballet Bun”, a queer historical pastiche, 2019
12 Minutes Max, “monthly experimental performance series featuring short works by local artists in many disciplines”, screendance screenings and live performance across disciplines, 2017, 2018, 2018, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2025, 202, 2025
Residency/Gallery
Gittins Gallery, Arrange Your Tools and Preparation [first stigmata], multichannel video installation, plastic arts/sculpture, projection, participatory sound installation, January 2026
loveDANCEmore Two-Year Artist in Residence, virtual performance & teaching series Spring 2021, International Peace Gardens live performance and “Dancing Again” album release Spring 2022
Finch Lane Flash Projects, Salt Lake Arts Council, The Back And Forth Part, full East & West gallery sculpture intermedia, screendance, and audio installation by with filmmaker Dawn Borchardt, curation of live musical and improvisational dance collaborations from local ensembles, March 2020
Halophyte Collective, Myth in Memory group show, sumi ink and embroidery works interpreting Pina Bausch’s & Sergei Diaghilev’s Rite of Spring, August 2020
Ode to the Veil, Clubhouse group show, reclaimed archive of embroidery & ink works in the deconstructed books of Par Lagerkvist, June 2019
WORKSHOPS
Improvising with Sound and Motion, International Trumpet Guild, with Briana and Carina Gillet, participants collaborating via generative word association, sensory connections, live sound processing/mixing, movement interpretations, and responsive musical direction, 2025
Bed, Bath, and Be-droned, Twitch-streamed somatics with live ambient accompaniment, loveDANCEmore residency year 1, April 2021
Race to the Bottom, movement workshop, ARCH building to Kingsbury Hall to Finch Lane Gallery, for Prof. Steven Chodoriwsky’s Sophomore Product Design, University of Utah Multi-Disciplinary Design, March 2020
GUEST LECTURES, GUEST JURY/ REVIEW
Gallery Films & Video Art, solo Artist Talk, for Prof. Kenneth Collins, solicited for February 2026
Advanced Documentary, guest juror, for Prof. Emily Mkrtichian, October 2025
Multi-Disciplinary Design, guest reviewer, University of Utah, semi-annually 2020-2025
DES 2810 Design History Theory, guest lecture, for Prof. Steven Chodoriwsky, Text in response to a Scenario, University of Utah, December 2022
Radical Quiet, guest lecture, for Prof. Phillip Bimstein, University of Utah Honors College, February 2023
VOLUNTEER MENTORSHIP, SELECTED
Senior Capstone Mentor, Salt Lake Center for Science Education, students Annukka P-R. and Mailie A., topics: Music in Education, percussion focus, and Propaganda in Film, yearlong 2024
Rock ‘n Roll Camp for Girls, 2016-2017