VK Preston
VK Preston is a multidisciplinary artist-scholar whose work bridges dance, history, and performance to explore community, queerness, and embodied archives.
Biography
A 2024 Camargo Fellow, Preston is currently developing a book on dance and the witch trials, alongside creative projects on elder care, queer caregiving, and improvisation. They are Associate Professor of History and Co-Director of the Performing Arts Research Cluster at Concordia University鈥檚 Milieux Institute. Preston's scholarship appears in TDR, Theatre Journal, and the Oxford Handbook of Dance and Theatre, and their work spans poetry, visual art, public history, and installation. Collaborating since 2021 with dance artist Caroline Gravel, Preston explores pandemic-era improvisation, with new writing forthcoming. Their contribution to Queer Bodies (2025) reflects ongoing inquiry into community-based drawing practices.
Holding a PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies from Stanford University, Preston has taught at Brown, the University of Toronto, and Concordia, fostering student-led interdisciplinary research across performance and public history. They are a visiting artist-scholar in the Low-Residency MFA in Dance program at Bennington for Summer 2025.