Biography

Dominic Moore-Dunson — 2025 Lloyd Richards New Futures Fellow (SDC Foundation) and Dance Magazine 25 to Watch — is an award-winning choreographer, director, and educator based in Akron, Ohio. He is the Co-Founder and Creative Director of MooreDunson Moves, a family-led creative studio and consulting company helping people move better — as teams, couples, and artists.

Alongside his wife and co-founder Ashley Moore-Dunson, Dominic leads the company’s growing slate of work, including THRIVE Leadership & Team Development.

Dominic’s work spans regional and commercial theater, dance, and immersive performance, creating emotionally resonant, culturally rooted experiences that explore memory, identity, safety and belonging. Through Urban Midwest Storytelling, he also designs university residencies and workshops that empower the next generation of artists to combine creativity, and entrepreneurship.

His work has been presented nationally and featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Akron Beacon Journal. He is a 2024 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award recipient, 2024 Headlands Center for the Arts fellow and a former Associate Artist at the Atlantic Center for the Arts.

Dominic is the creator of signature works including the inCOPnegro Trilogy, The Remember Balloons National Tour, and The Block, a digital essay series blending storytelling, satire, and cultural reflection.

Across all platforms, his work sparks dialogue on culture while building a creative ecosystem where movement, storytelling, and leadership intersect.