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 Co., a family-led creative studio and consulting company that helps people move better — as artists, teams, and leaders.

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.

His choreographic voice is rooted in Urban Midwest Storytelling — a movement language shaped by improvisation, moving fluidly between pedestrian gesture and fully embodied expression — and is presented through a family-centered, intergenerational lens. Rather than traditional “family-friendly” programming, his work invites families into honest, layered experiences that honor complexity, loss, joy, and resilience.

His work has been presented nationally and featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, PBS, and more. He is a 2024 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award recipient, a 2024 Headlands Center for the Arts Fellow, Jacob’s Pillow Choreography 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 platforms, his work sparks dialogue on culture while building a creative ecosystem where movement, storytelling, and leadership intersect.