Travis Prokop is a choreographer, educator, and Artistic Director of Prokop_Theory Dance, a project based collective dedicated to integrating LGBTQ+ culture, history, and lived experience into concert dance. As an Assistant Professor of Dance at the University of Houston, Travis has spent more than a decade helping dancers develop ownership of their movement style and identity.

His choreographic practice functions as a living archive, preserving queer histories through the body and performance. Works including A Friend of Dorothy, Ball Moderne, and CODED: Conversations You Didn’t Know We Were Having explore queer identity, cultural memory, and coded communication. His film Carnations was featured in the Wicked Queer Film Festival in Boston, while more recent works address themes of intimacy, addiction, power, and emotional survival within queer communities.

Originally from New Mexico, Travis has trained and performed internationally and his work has received national recognition for its exploration of identity, history, and embodied research through choreography.