MADISON FALCONER
Madison Falconer is a Northern Michigan raised choreographer, dancer, and the Artistic Director and Founder of Falco.
Madison began her professional career in Chicago dancing with A&A Ballet and FLOCK, training with the Hubbard Street Lou Conte Scholarship Program. From a young age, she gained recognition for her choreographic works becoming one of the youngest recipients of Outstanding Choreographer at YAGP and winning multiple Critics Choice Awards across the Midwest.
In 2023, Madison graduated with her BFA from the USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance. At USC, Madison studied Composition under the mentorship of William Forsythe, Thomas McManus, Patrick Corbin, Dawn Stoppiello, d. Sabela grimes, and Jermaine Spivey. She focused her Occupational Science and Compositional research on methods for making dance more accessible to diverse audiences. During her time at USC Madison Co-Produced and Directed tens of interactive arts events to cultivate community and play in unconventional spaces.
In 2021, Madison founded her company, Falco, and the Woodworks Residency, with the mission to empower visionary leaders in the arts to create collaborative, bold, purpose-driven work that shapes a stronger, healthier future for the arts through multidisciplinary collaboration, immersive performance events, and art as an expression of compassionate curiosity. In 2023, she was the Resident Choreographer at Company Dance Traverse and the Vista Del Mar Glorya Kaufman Performing Arts Center. She was a 2023 Carmel Dance Festival Choreographic Fellow and has choreographed original works for Trinity Laban in London, Ballet Arkansas, Traverse City Dance Project, Save as Draft, Laguna Dance Festival, A&A Ballet, Jackson Dance Company, Imprint Dance Company, among others. Madison worked as Associate Choreographer with Artists, Veegee, for Cartier’s 2024 Trinity Centennial Celebration, and Jackson Wang with Hennessy’s 2024 Chinese New Year in Shanghai, in addition to Choreography for music videos of Leaha Maria, Shorty-G, Daniel Mangiaracino, and Movement Direction on SUNFISH (& OTHER STORIES ON GREEN LAKE).
Madison is interested in multi-sensory surrealism, the blending and bending of different mediums to emphasize natural space and pace of everyday life.