Field-Of-Study: Choreography

Dean Moss is a dance-based multidisciplinary theater and media artist, curator, and lecturer. His current research investigates perceptions of self and other, often incorporating transcultural performance collaborations and audience participation.  He is the recipient of a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Artists Grant Award; New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships; Asian Cultural Council Fellowships; a

Andrea Miller is the founder, artistic director, and choreographer of New York–based company Gallim Dance. Through a plural body of work that explores the relationships of movement with other forms of expression including theater, visual arts, music, and politics, Miller has developed a recognizable artistic language of extreme physicality and unprejudiced emotionality. New York Magazine

Claire Porter, known for her smart comedic work mixing language and movement, has performed Claire Porter / PORTABLES internationally with appearances in India, Scotland, Germany, Holland, England, Latvia, and Korea. In the New York City area her work has been produced at Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace St. Mark’s Church, PS 122, Joe’s Pub, The Kitchen,

Faye Driscoll is a Bessie award–winning choreographer who has been called “a startlingly original talent” by the New York Times. She has choreographed four evening-length works with commissions from The Kitchen, The Wexner Center for the Arts, Dance Theater Workshop, American Dance Festival, and HERE Arts Center. Her work has been supported by a 2013

Netta Yerushalmy has been creating dances since 1995. Known for its unique and fierce physicality, her work distills the awkward as an aesthetic quality, juxtuposing a sense of discomfort with beauty and power, in both movement and composition. She has been lucky to create her project-based pieces with a diverse group of extraordinary performers in

My passion as a director and performer is to question the relationship between audience and performance—to put them in each others way—to cause collision and conflict—with the goal of awakening and transformation. The characters I create are transformers—the weak become strong, the powerful losing power, the good becoming evil—they express unimaginable possibilities. I attempt to

Artist’s Statement I believe strongly in the importance of corporeal expression and the profundity of movement.   I am truly in love with movement.  I am also acutely aware of stillness and how a narrative may unfold from either place. My investigation is of nuance and gesture, and the emotion and drama inherent in the physical

Doug Elkins is a two-time New York Dance and Performance (BESSIE) Award-winning choreographer who began his career as a B-Boy, touring the world with break-dance groups New York Dance Express and Magnificent Force, among others. He has created over forty original dances during his career for Doug Elkins Dance Company (1988–2003), doug elkins choreography, etc.,

Ananya Chatterjea is dancer, choreographer, dance scholar, and dance educator, who envisions her work in the field of dance as a “call to action” with a particular focus on women artists of color. She is the Artistic Director of Ananya Dance Theatre, a company of women artists of color committed to the intersection of artistic

Pat Catterson has always danced. Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, to parents who were a professional ballroom-dancing team, with a paternal grandfather who was said to have been a tap dancer in Vaudeville, she moved to New York City in 1968 to begin a multifaceted professional career as a dancer, choreographer, educator, and writer. That fall

Pavel Zuštiak is the Artistic Director of Palissimo Company, established in New York City in 2004 under his vision to pursue artistic liberty through communion with live audiences. Palissimo is known for sophisticated, multidisciplinary works with piercing emotional content and abundant surrealist imagery that explore “the darker shades of human behavior” (The New Yorker). A