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Overview


Celia Rowlson-Hall

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Overview


Celia Rowlson-Hall

 
 
 
 

Celia Rowlson-Hall is a multidisciplinary artist who blends narrative storytelling, modern dance, and film – creating a genre all her own. Her most recent work, the film installation First Snow, was selected by Times Square Arts for their December 2022 Midnight Moment, the largest digital art installation in the world. Every night of December, First Snow took over 90 plus screens in Times Square, immersing the audience, through movement and dance, in a magical snowstorm. Celia can also currently be seen playing opposite Paul Mescal as Adult Sophie in award-season favorite Aftersun (A24), in which she also choreographed the final scene.

A Bessie Award Winning performer, Celia began her career as a professional dancer, but quickly transitioned to choreographing for film and television. After an early collaboration with Gaspar Noé, and three seasons of GIRLS with Lena Dunham, Vogue Magazine dubbed Celia “choreographer of the moment.” When not creating her own films, Celia is a prolific and widely sought after choreographer, creating the acclaimed and much talked about opening scene for After Yang (A24), the movement for Mia Goth’s Pearl in X (A24), Birds of Paradise (Amazon), Chapter One of Vox Lux (Neon), and movement for The Fits (Oscilloscope). Her recent TV work includes HBO’s The Staircase, two seasons of Ziwe (Showtime), John Mulaney’s Sack Lunch Bunch (Netflix), and The Other Two (HBO Max). She has also choreographed music videos for artists Alicia Keys, Coldplay, Bleachers, MGMT, and many others.

Celia’s debut feature, MA, which she wrote, directed, choreographed, and starred in, premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2015. Variety Magazine heralded it “one of the year’s most original debuts” and Indiewire called it “a spellbinding and fiercely original cinematic experience.” It went on to play at over 40 festivals worldwide, winning numerous awards, including the Breakthrough Audience Award at the AFI Film Festival. That same year, Celia was named one of the 25 New Faces to watch by Filmmaker Magazine. 

Celia’s vast body of short form works have garnered a variety of awards, including an Emmy nomination, and have screened at festivals such as Sundance, Venice, SXSW, SFIFF, Dance on Camera at Lincoln Center, and art fairs such as the Armory Show, Performa, and the New Museum. In 2017, Celia was selected to create the latest installment of the Miu Miu Women’s Tales series, which went on to premiere at the Venice Film Festival. Her short film, Swamp Lake, premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival as part of the omnibus feature Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia


Celia is represented by CAA and Management 360, and is currently a Sundance Institute FilmTwo Fellow and recipient of a Cinereach Fellowship, both in support of her next feature, INT/EXT. DAY INTO NIGHT.

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MA


MA


MA

"Spellbinding and fiercely original...a silent film that is anything but quiet." - Indiewire

"Ma is astonishing, and easily one of the most brazen and beautiful independent films I’ve seen in years." - Hammer To Nail

"It marks the arrival of one of the most unique new voice's in American Cinema." - Bright Ideas Magazine

MA is Celia's award winning debut feature, which she wrote, directed, choreographed and starred in. Entirely dialogue free, it tells the story of a virgin mother on a pilgrimage to Las Vegas to give birth to our savior.

After have a work-in-progress screening at MOMA Ps1 as part of the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival, MA had its World Premiere at the 2015 Venice Film Festival.  It then went on to screen internationally and domestically at over forty festivals worldwide, winning the Breakthrough Audience award at AFI Film Festival, the Independent Visions Award at Sarasota Film Festival, the Juice Award at Ashland Independent Film Festival, the One in a Million Award at Sun Valley Film Festival, the Ron Tibbett Excellence in Filmmaking Award at Indie Memphis, and the Clint Howard Character Actor Award at Sidewalk Film Festival, among several others.

MA released theatrically January 2017 in NYC, Chicago, and LA. It is available for purchase here.

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Miu Miu Women's Tales


Miu Miu Women's Tales


(The [End) of History Illusion]

(The [End) of History Illusion] is the 14th commission from Miu Miu Women’s Tales. The acclaimed short-film series invites today’s most profound and original female directors to investigate vanity and femininity in the 21st century. This film was written, directed, and choreographed by Celia Rowlson-Hall. It premiered at 2017 Venice Film Festival. To watch the short film click HERE

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Choreography


Choreography


"Choreographer of the moment" - VOGUE

"With her wacky charm, Celia Rowlson-Hall has become the dance darling of fashion and film."  -DANCE MAGAZINE

"Ms. Rowlson-Hall’s brand of dance is quirky and unpretentious, the opposite of the hyper-sexualized choreography found in many music videos."  - NEW YORK TIMES