H. Blaize D'Angio

Director

Performance, Dance, Music, Choreography, Theater, Textiles

H. Blaize D’Angio (b. 1987)  is a performer, choreographer, director, musician, and craftsperson. Her passion lies in exploring the relationships and boundaries between art, artist, and audience, and creating worlds and characters that challenge and play with these. Blaize draws on her backgrounds in dance, theater, burlesque, clowning, and intersectional feminist theory to create emotional, interactive work that engages the senses and questions societal rules and roles. She holds a BA from Beloit College (Beloit, WI)  in Dance and Women’s and Gender Studies and a Life-Practice Certificate from InterPlay (Oakland, CA), in which she is currently pursuing leader certification with support from the Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis.
 

Blaize is co-director of FloSTL. Since joining the St. Louis dance community in 2011, her works and collaborations have appeared at the SLIFF St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase, PrideFest, the CAM’s Dada Ball, Show Me Burlesque, St. Lou Fringe, and Temporal Cities: Blanket Fort Festival. St. Louis performances have included New Dance Horizons, Dancing in the Streets, Dine on Dance, 60x60, and National Dance Week. She has also performed her own work and collaborations at the Virginia Burlesque and Sideshow Festival, Bluelight Music Festival, Asheville Fringe Arts Festival, and various DIY shows around the United States. Outside of Flo, she works as a freelance performer and a collaborative creator with artists in Memphis, Chicago, and the San Francisco Bay Area.