Will Rawls is a New York-based choreographer, dancer, and writer whose practice probes the boundaries between dance, language, and other media to investigate the poetics of abstraction, Blackness, and the materiality of time. His work has been presented at the MCA Chicago; The Momentary, Bentonville, Arkansas; On the Boards, Seattle; Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Oregon; the 35a Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil; and Counterpublic 2023, St. Louis, Missouri; among others. Rawls has been awarded numerous residencies and fellowships, including a 2017 Guggenheim Fellowship, and he received the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts in 2021. His writing has been published by the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museu de Arte de São Paulo; and the journal Dancing While Black. He is currently associate professor of choreography in the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance at the University of California, Los Angeles.