Independent Choreographer
Dance Genres
Ballet, Contemporary, Multidisciplinary
Violet Moon
Nonbinary / They/Them/Their
Violet Moon, MA NCC (they/them) is a feminist choreographer, cross-medium collaborator, and licensed mental health worker building the intersection of contemporary ballet, dance theatre, and performance art to tell systematically-strategic untold stories.
Violet debuted their professional dance career at 18, touring as an apprentice with Revolve Dance Company before training for several seasons at Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and later being accepted into their Choreographic Residency at UCLA. Violet went on to become a founding member and soloist of Houston's LÉON Contemporary Dance Company, later securing a guest artist contract with ARCOS Dance Company in Austin. After completing their Master's in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Palo Alto University, they returned to performance becoming a selected professional at le Centre National de la Danse in Paris and a residency participant at P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels, cross-collaborating with independent artists and collectives including Frame Dance, Transitory Sound and Movement, Null or Nothing, and Limitless Dance Festival. Violet has debuted original works at venues throughout Houston and New York through Locke Surls Center for Art and Nature, Verbena Coffee, Dance Source Houston's Barnstorm Dance Fest, Mind The Gap festival series, and WHITE WAVE SoloDuo Festival. In 2025, they founded Artists for People, a benefit concert and festival series uniting artists across all performance and visual art backgrounds through social activism, in the past raising funds for local immigration aide and Gaza relief, with a look to transgender resourcing organizations in 2026.
Violet is a Mid America Arts Alliance Fresh Arts Artist INC Fellow, a graduated Dance Source Houston Artist-in-Residence, a three-time MET Dance Floor Residency recipient (24, 25, 26), and a four-time recipient of the City of Houston's "Let Creativity Happen" grant (23, 24, 25, 26). Alongside their choreographic work, Violet facilitates workshops throughout Houston in trauma-informed movement, consent, and expressive arts.
"I want to let life change me into someone who cares more instead of less."