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Rylee Moore (any pronouns) is a Montana-born queer dance artist and movement teacher currently based in Missoula, MT. Their choreographic work explores the internal experience of the performer(s), relational dynamics, and plays with expectations and boundaries. Rylee’s work is deeply human, alive and is concerned with the specific, personal and intimate translated to a performance space.
Rylee has trained at London Contemporary Dance School, UNC School of the Arts, and most recently the University of Montana. They have performed in alternative club spaces, site specific performance protest work, and on various stages in Montana, North Carolina and London. Most recently they have worked with Laurel Sears in her evening length work: RECEIVE, a dance for the wild, and on a collaborative improvisational duet titled: Note to Self, both premiering at WestSide Theatre.
Rylee has extensive Ballet and Cunningham training and in the last 10 years has dived into release-based work, flying low, floor-work, counter technique, contact improvisation and improvisation. They have been grateful to work with incredible teachers like Leila McMillan, Chisato Ohno, Seke Chimutengwende, Kira Blazek, Rick Nodine, Brenda Daniels, Sean Sullivan, and Baptiste Bourgougnon to name a few.
They are a licensed massage therapist and a certified somatic experiencing practitioner currently in private practice. They teach healing arts workshops, community movement classes and do visual art alongside one on one healing work. They infuse their deep knowledge of anatomy, nervous system states and trauma physiology into their pedagogy and support their clients, students, collaborators and peers to have a healthy and vivacious movement and arts practice.
Queerness, accessibility and deep human connection are integral to all that Rylee does on and off the stage.
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Healing Arts Professional Experience
Owner & Practitioner of Embodied Healing Arts / 2025- Current
Faculty at Sacred Roots Montana School for Massage Therapy / 2026 - Current
LMT at Good Medicine Acupuncture & Massage / 2022-2025
Owner & Practitioner of Embodied Massage LLC / 2020-2022
Embodied Movement Classes Founder & Teacher / 2022 - Current
Embodiment Workshop Facilitator with Laurel Sears, 4-week workshop / 2025
Somatic Skills for Resilience Workshop - Creator and Facilitator, 4-week zoom workshop / 2025
Intuitive Painting Workshop Facilitator with Madelaine Millar, independent 2 session workshop & through the Zootown Arts Community Center 2025
Somatic Experiencing International assistant / 2025- Current
Dance Faculty at Ballet Arts Academy and the Downtown Dance Collective / 2016 - 2017, & 2021
Education & Certifications
WESTFEST INTENSIVE, Missoula, MT Undercurrent Dance Company week long floorwork intensive August 2026
AXIS TEACHER TRAINING, Berkeley, CA Summer Dance Intensive and Teacher Training July 12-18, 2026
UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA, Missoula, MT BA Dance & Pre-Dance Therapy, Dance Wellness Certificate - Graduation in December 2026 / Associate of Arts Degree 2025
SOMATIC EXPERIENCING INTERNATIONAL SEP Certificate, 272 hours
AUGUST 2022 - May 2025
ORTHOPEDIC CUPPING CERTIFICATION, Seattle, WA, Owlchemy Massage
AUGUST 2021
SACRED ROOTS MONTANA SCHOOL OF MASSAGE THERAPY, Missoula, MT LMT, 750 hours
JANUARY 2021 - DECEMBER 2021
REIKI LEVEL 1 CERTIFICATION, Missoula, MT
SPRING 2021
CRANIAL-SACRAL LEVEL 1 CERTIFICATION, Missoula, MT
SPRING 2021
LONDON CONTEMPORARY DANCE SCHOOL, London, UK 2-year Diploma
AUGUST 2018 - JUNE 2020
UNC SCHOOL OF THE ARTS, Winston-Salem, NC HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA
AUGUST 2016 - MAY 2018
Performance & Choreographic work
Note to Self choreographed and performed in collaboration with Laurel Sears, Westside Theatre August 2026
RECEIVE: a dance for the wild by Laurel Sears, choreography in collaboration with dancers, performer and collaborator, February 2026
Amazing Time by Pure Waves music video, performance and improvisation with direction by OMO, 2024
Inklingroom London alternative performance night created by Keity Pook, performer, 2020
DANCXR London performance protest group founded in collaboration, performed at Trafalgar Square 2020
BATHERS dance film: choreographic direction, film editing and artistic vision, 2020
Honey Rep, original choreography and re-set by Leila McMillan 2019, London Contemporary Dance School
Le Sylphide 2018 UNCSA Spring Concert, corp de ballet
