Bio
Audrey Nicole Simes (b. 1990, Los Angeles, CA) directs multidisciplinary performances at the intersection of dance, theater, projection and installation art. The resulting works highlight her broad interests in family narrative and cultural memory, woman as subject matter, individual agency, technology, surveillance and social control, conspiracy and simple truths, resistance and stultification, militarization, and environmental disaster. Simes redefines the audience in her work, empathetically confronting viewers and facilitating their intimate engagement. She received a BFA from Webster University in a self-designed interdisciplinary concentration in performance art and attended American College Dance Festivals and the New York University Summer Dance Intensive. Her studio is in St. Louis, Missouri.
Simes is Artistic Director of Flo Art Collective. Her independent works and performances have been showcased at the Touhill Performing Arts Center, the Grandel, Saint Louis International Film Festival, Regional Arts Commission, Hoffman LaChance Contemporary, Mad Art Gallery, Kranzberg Arts Center, Dancing in the Streets, Saint Lou Fringe, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, Artica, and Copenhagen Artists in Residence. Simes’ work has been exhibited in concert with the Big Muddy Dance Company, Ashleyliane Dance Company, Consuming Kinetics Dance Company, and Leverage Dance Theater. Simes was selected as St. Louis Post Dispatch’s Arts and Theater Rising Star in 2016 for “Tributary,” which shed light on the nuclear waste contamination at Coldwater Creek in North St. Louis.
Curriculum Vitae
Education
BA in Performance Art, Webster University, Fall 2012
Self-Designed Interdisciplinary Bachelor of Arts Major in Performance Art integrating the Dance, Art, Music, and Media Communications Departments
Webster University Thailand, Summer 2011
Modern dance, Improvisation, and vocal performance teacher at Vic Hua Hin, Patravadi Theater Performing Arts School in Hua Hin, Thailand. Performed and choreographed two full-length concerts at the Vic Hua Hin Theatre.
New York University, Summer Dance Intensive 2009
Studied ballet, modern, choreography, and company repertory with Ron K. Brown, Gina Gibney, and Robert Battle
American College Dance Festival, 2009 and 2010
Exhibitions
2022 Kranzberg Arts Foundation, “Quantum Kansas” - Curatorial debut; St. Louis, MO
2021 Intersect Arts Center, Dovetail Exhibition, “The Collaborator and the Old Man” - Collaboration, mixed-media, performance and installation; St. Louis, MO
2020 International Artist Telephone Game, “Eve’s Hour” - Director, costume designer, sound, videographer, and editor; International Collaboration
2019 Artica, Flo Art Collective "Secrets of the Bower House: Ch. 3" - Executive producer, director, and performer; St. Louis, MO
2019 MRS. MacCORMICK’S YARD, Flo Art Collective "Secrets of the Bower House: Ch. 2" - Executive producer, director, and performer; St. Louis, MO
2019 St Lou Fringe Festival, Flo, "Secrets of the Bower House: Ch. 1" - Executive producer and director, performer, costume and sound design; St. Louis, MO
2019 National Dance Week, Flo, "To Have and to Hold" - Costume design, performance direction, and choreography; St. Louis, MO
2018 Artica, "Port of Entry" - Installation, site-specific performance, and choreography; St. Louis, MO
2018 The Luminary, "Darker Gods in the Low-Hanging Heavens: Bloom of Eros" - Dance for camera, choreography; St. Louis, MO
2018 The Grandel, "Parallels" Ashleyliane Dance Company's Spring Concert, "Both Sides" - Choreography, direction, costume and sound design; St. Louis, MO
2018 The Kranzberg Arts Foundation, The Big Muddy Dance Company Trainee Showcase, "An Oddly Shaped Pearl, pt.3" - Choreography, direction, costume and sound design; St. Louis, MO
2018 FloSTL, "Host Table" - Director and performer; St. Louis, MO
2017 St. Louis Art Museum, SLAM Underground, "The Wheel" - Artistic Director, projection, and performance with Blank Generation; St. Louis, MO
2017 Artica, "An Oddly Shaped Pearl: Continuum" performed by the Big Muddy Dance Company Trainee Program - Choreography, costume design, and performance; St. Louis, MO
2017 Artica, "The Wheel" - Live video mixing, projection, and performance with Blank Generation; St. Louis, MO
2017 Foam, "An Oddly Shaped Pearl: Intermission" - Performance and costume design; St. Louis, MO
2017 Kranzberg Arts Foundation, .ZACK, "An Oddly Shaped Pearl: Pt. 1" performed by the Big Muddy Dance Company Trainee Program - Choreography and costume design
2017 Jill A. McGuire Gallery, Regional Arts Commission, "R3CLAMATION: Beyond This Threshold" - Installation and performance; St. Louis, MO
2016 L.A. Dance Film Festival, "In the Pines" - Dance for Camera; Los Angeles, CA
2016 Hawn Gallery, Southern Methodist University, "Routes and Roots" - Performance and installation; Dallas, TX
2016 Hoffman LaChance Contemporary, “Inward Quest” - Performance, installation, and costuming; St. Louis, MO
2016 Murmuration Festival, Cortex Innovation Community - Performance and installation exhibition; St. Louis, MO
2016 Mad Art Gallery: St. Louis Reclamation Arts, “Do Not Rush” - Performance and installation exhibition; St. Louis, MO
2016 Touhill Performing Arts Center: Spring to Dance, “Tributary” - Choreography, costume design and construction, and audio design. A world premiere commissioned by Dance St. Louis; St. Louis, MO
2016 Nebula Co-working: “The Vessel” - Collaborative performance and visual art exhibition; St. Louis, MO
2016 Public Media Commons: “Shifted” - Dance for camera exhibition; St. Louis, MO
2016 St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase & St. Louis International Film Festival: “In the Pines” - Dance for camera; St. Louis, MO
2015 Duet Gallery: “Everything is Different” - Installation, costume design and construction, choreography; St. Louis, MO
2015 St. Louis International Film Festival: “The Gallows,” “Shifted,” and “In the Pines” - Original choreographic works, costumes, and short films exhibited in the dance-for-camera-specific showcase; St. Louis, MO
2015 SCREENGRAB6 International Media Arts Award: “Shifted” - Collaborative dance film exhibition; Townsville, Australia
2014 Tivoli Theatre: St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase, “River Memories” and “Shifted” - Premiere of two collaborative dance for camera works; St. Louis, MO
2014 Duet Gallery: “Inter Alia” - Choreography, installation, vocal performance, and collaboration; St. Louis, MO
2014 Kranzberg Arts Center: St. Lou Fringe, “Landslide” - Film, projection, puppetry, and performance; St. Louis, MO
2013 Copenhagen Artist in Residence/St. Lou Fringe: “Pinhole in a Window Shade” - Experimental film installation, live-stream, performance art dialogue; Copenhagen, Denmark
2013 Kranzberg Arts Center: “Sonoptic” - Multi-media performance exhibition; St. Louis, MO
2013 Touhill Performing Arts Center: New Dance Horizons II, “Encounters with the Infinite” - Costume design and construction; St. Louis, MO
2013 Centene Center for the Arts, Artica, RAWartists, and 2720 Cherokee: “Just Above the Floodline” - Performance director, choreographer, performer, installation and costume designer; St. Louis, MO
2013 Centene Center for the Arts: “My Woman Your Woman” - Dance for camera video installation; St. Louis, MO
2013 Leverage Dance Theater: “Seen Unseen” - Site-specific choreographic and collaborative works; St. Louis, MO
2012 Contemporary Art Museum: “Anatomy is Destiny” - Performer; St. Louis, MO
2012 “7 Curses” - Collaborative, multi-media performance art work; St. Louis, MO
2012 Satori: “Viral.” - Video and sound trigger interactive installation; St. Louis, MO
Fellowships and Grants
2020 Satellite Collective Fellowship
2019 Regional Arts Commission Fellowship
2018 ARTICA artist honorarium
2017 Regional Arts Commission Artist Support Grant
2010-19 ARTICA artist honorarium