Deborah Goffe is a dance maker, performer, educator, and curator who cultivates environments and experiences through choreographic, design, and social processes. Since its founding in 2002, the Connecticut-based creative engine, Scapegoat Garden, has functioned as a primary vehicle and creative community through which Goffe has employed these processes. Goffe’s work has been performed widely at venues like New England’s Center for the Arts at Wesleyan University, Wadsworth Atheneum, Real Art Ways, the International Festival of Arts and Ideas, Bates Dance Festival, Boston Center for the Arts; New York City’s New York Live Arts, Artists of Tomorrow Theatre Festival, and the 92nd Street Y; and internationally in Finland, Italy and Cape Verde. Goffe has been awarded Artist Fellowships by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Connecticut Office of the Arts, the Greater Hartford Arts Council, and the Surdna Foundation, and has been honored for Distinguished Achievement in Dance by the Connecticut Dance Alliance. Goffe is driven by an enduring commitment to world making, support of vibrant local dance ecologies, and the role of curatorial practice in those processes—forging 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. These concerns form a foundation for her work at Trinity College (Amherst, MA) where she serves as Executive Director of Austin Arts Center and Artist-in-Residence of Theater and Dance.