Originally from Silicon Valley, California, Aurora Vaughan (she/they) is currently a freelance movement artist based in NYC. She graduated in 2021 with a BFA in Dance from the USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance. While in school, they had the honor of performing works by Crystal Pite, William Forysthe, Sonya Tayeh, Jiří Kylian, Andrew Winghart, and Barak Marshall. Upon graduation, she traveled and danced through Europe and the UK and settled in New York to begin freelancing. Since then, they have worked with artists such as Alan Lucien Øyen, Alyssa Myers, Eamon Foley, Tracie Stanfield, and FangTing Yeh, performing in many of New York’s independent venues and working with MOVE|NYC| (dir. Chanel Dasilva and Nigel Campbell). She is a company member in alma Collective (dir. Kat Bark and Bianca Dam) and is very excited to be joining Moving Forward Dance Collective. They are an avid collaborator and enjoy working with creators of all disciplines to make art that speaks to people’s humanity. She believes that artists have a special place in the world to help people access their indescribable feelings, start difficult conversations, and prompt different pathways of thinking.