Deborah Goffe is a dance maker, performer, educator, and performance curator who cultivates environments and experiences through choreographic, design and social processes. Since its founding in 2002, Scapegoat Garden has served as a primary vehicle through which she activates the world making potential of expressive bodies in movement(s), localities, networked and collaborative processes, interdisciplinarity, and curatorial practices as systems of care. Through this and other platforms, she strives to forge relationships between artists and communities, helping people see, create and contribute to a greater vision of ourselves, each other, and the places we call home. Deborah is a 2022 Creative Capital Awardee for her current project, Liturgy|Order|Bridge, a Pillow Lab artist-in-residence at Jacob’s Pillow, and was a recent cohort member of the New England Foundation for the Arts’ Regional Dance Development Initiative (RDDI) New England Now. She is a graduate of University of the Arts (BFA, Modern Dance), and California Institute of the Arts (MFA, Dance Performance and Choreography). More recently, she earned an MA in Performance Curation from the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance at Wesleyan University. Her current research attends to the intersection of sustainable arts practice, locality, arts ecosystem formation and navigation, habits of perception, and black radical tradition(s). Together these interests and commitments inform her work and teaching at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts where she serves as Associate Professor of Dance and Performance Curation.