Cori Kresge is a NYC-based dance artist, poet, massage therapist, collaborator, and teacher. Her monastic upbringing in a meditation community has impacted her writing and performing, which often explores themes of mysticism, skepticism, and fanaticism. She has written two poetry chapbooks: isn’t devotion (No, Dear/Small Anchor first chapbook prize, 2019) and Combustion Suite, (Bored Wolves, 2023). Her writings have appeared in Blush Literary Journal, Terremoto Magazine, and the Writers Studio Anthology.

Kresge was a member of José Navas/Compagnie Flak, Merce Cunningham Repertory Understudy Group, and Stephen Petronio Company. She has performed and collaborated with numerous artists on works for stage and film, including Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener, Rebecca Lazier, Xavier Cha, Wendy Osserman, Sally Silvers, Ellen Cornfield, Sarah Skaggs, Bill Young, Liz Magic Laser, Madeline Hollander, Taeyoon Choi, Charles Atlas, Zuzka Kurtz, Matthew Kohn, Sarah Olson, and Esmé Boyce. She is a featured performer in the CUNNINGHAM 3D documentary by Alla Kovgan.

Her choreographic work has been presented by Beach Sessions Rockaway, Movement Research, Greenspace, Goethe in the Skyways, Center for Performance Research, Elevation 1049-Switzerland, and Dance Roulette. She has been a choreographic consultant and collaborator with multi-media artist Liz Magic Laser on works commissioned by the Pompidou, Paris, France, Le Mouvement - Performing the City, Biel/Bien, Switzerland, and Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, New York.

Cori regularly teaches for the Merce Cunningham Trust and is a guest teacher at NYU Tisch, SUNY Purchase, and School for Poetic Computation, among others. In 2020 she founded Play With Matches Workshop, pairing international artists of different disciplines together to co-mentor one another as they create.