Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves are acclaimed directors, choreographers, filmmakers, and mixed media designers. As a collaborative duo, they have been creating dances together for over fifteen years through their founding and directing of Orange Grove Dance (OGD). Their award-winning works are noted for bringing virtuosic athleticism, mesmerizing design landscapes, and powerful imagery to audiences through performances that merge movement, film, technology, and immersive environments.

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Lauded for their versatility and vision as artists, Krogol and Reeves redefine the possibilities of dance as a communicative art form capable of reaching audiences far beyond the confines of traditional theaters. Through OGD, their genre-spiraling works and commissions have been presented worldwide in concert halls, museums, film festivals, underground tunnels, city streets, black box theaters, public parks, botanic gardens, and high-end hotels. Internationally, they have served as Artists-in-Residence creating choreographic and cinematic works in Finland, Iceland, Italy, Spain, and China. In January 2024, they returned to Finland to premiere their newest dance-u-mentary film, Rauma in Motion.

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Krogol and Reeves are Helen Hayes Award winners for “Outstanding Choreography in a Play” for their work in Round House Theatre’s production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2020). Additional honors and commissions include: 2026 Voxel Invited Artist-in-Residence, 2025 Pola Nirenska Outstanding Achievement in Dance Award, 2025 ACDA Screendance Adjudicators, 2025 Dance Place Company-In-Residence, Baker Artist Awards (2024, 2023, 2021), 2024 Voxel AIR, 2023 Rubys Artists through the Deutsch Foundation, The Carla Fund for Choreography and Performance (Howard and Geraldine Polinger Family Foundation), Maryland State Arts Council’s Artist Awards, and the Inaugural Ric Rose Distinguished Alumni Award.

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In 2026, Krogol and Reeves became the founding directors of the LIMINAL Dance Film Festival at Dance Place, an international festival dedicated to dance cinema, projection mapping, and interdisciplinary performance. The inaugural festival featured 70 films from 18 countries and transformed Dance Place into a large-scale immersive cinema environment celebrating movement on screen.

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Krogol and Reeves are also current Artists-in-Residence at The Voxel, where they are developing their newest evening-length production, Nevermore. Nevermore is a dance and media performance that transforms The Voxel into a water-drenched fever dream of Edgar Allan Poe—as if his words vanished, leaving only bodies, shadows, and the fragile light that emerges from darkness.

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In 2018, Krogol and Reeves were featured in the June edition of Dance Teacher Magazine in a spread titled “Living the Dream: How One Couple Makes Their Life Together in Dance,” highlighting their journey of building both a life and a body of work through Orange Grove Dance.

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As faculty and guest artists, they have taught and created work at Johns Hopkins University’s Peabody Institute, Towson University, George Washington University, University of Florida, University of Maryland, and the Wuhan Institute of Design and Sciences in China. They have also directed residencies at American University, Dickinson College, Sweet Briar College, Hillsborough Community College, and the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance in Israel.

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In 2019, Krogol and Reeves launched the OGD Intensive, a unique summer intensive where dance, design, and film collide. Intended for serious pre-professional and professional artists with an interdisciplinary practice, the immersive week-long program features classes, workshops, creative labs, and collaborative projects that allow artists to engage deeply with OGD’s creative process while continuing to cultivate their own artistic voices. In 2022, the OGD Intensive found its new home at Sweet Briar College in Virginia, where artists spend a full week in residence with the company.

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M.F.A. in Dance — University of Maryland
B.F.A. in Dance — University of Florida