Field-Of-Study: Choreography

After graduating with degrees in dance, Rosane Chamecki and Andrea Lerner moved from Curitiba, Brazil, to New York City in 1989. Once in New York, they started their choreographic careers.   ChameckiLerner research started with a stubborn necessity to attain a bold phy

Molissa Fenley was born in Las Vegas in 1954. She grew up in Nigeria, lived in Spain, and returned to the U.S. where she received a degree in dance from Mills College in 1975.  She moved to New York City that year and formed Molissa Fenley and Dancers in 1977.  Her 30-year career of choreographing and presenting

The founder and director of Rennie Harris Puremovement, Philadelphia native Lorenzo Harris is a choreographer dedicated to raising people’s awareness of the history of hip-hop from its roots in the African diaspora to its evolution today as a means of expression—a kind of language, in fact—for the current generation. In Legends of Hip-Hop (2001), for

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A multitalented artist who is esteemed for her brilliant interweaving of dance, language (spoken, sung, and signed), stage design, and music, Jane Comfort has been creating imaginative, moving, and thought-provoking theatrical works for over thirty years. Her interdisciplinary collaborations with such artists as composer Toshi Reagon, puppeteer Basil Twist, spoken-word artist Carl Hancock Rux, instrumentalist

Founder and Artistic Director of Urban Bush Women, choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar was born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri. She trained with Joseph Stevenson, a student of the legendary Katherine Dunham, and received a B.A. in dance from the University of Missouri at Kansas City and an M.F.A. in dance from Florida State University.

  Japanese-born, New York City-based choreographer Yasuko Yokoshi studied contemporary dance at Hampshire College (B.A., 1986), acting and directing at the Experimental Theater Wing at New York University, and the Japanese martial art Kendo, in which she has a first-degree black belt. Her eclectic background may account for the unique blend of cultures, media, and

Tamar Rogoff is a choreographer who explores the outer limits of how people negotiate extreme circumstances. She invites into her work cast members who step out of their traditional roles, often going against type, to be uniquely represented in her pieces. Ms. Rogoff’s large-scale site-works, films, and more traditional proscenium performances house her lifelong experimental

British-born choreographer Sarah Michelson is known for her innovative works that synthesize movement, venue, sound, and even the natural environment. She is always seeking to better understand the changing aesthetics of dance, and how the history and cultural influences in dancers’ training affect the body in motion. Ms. Michelson had studied dancing since childhood, and

Ralph Lemon, an artist who defies categorization, is Artistic Director of Cross Performance, a company dedicated to the creation of cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary performance and presentation. Mr. Lemon’s projects expand the definition of choreography by crossing and stretching the boundaries between Western, postmodern dance and other art forms and cultures. For each project, he builds a team

Dance as Ever, the company founded and directed by Leigh Witchel,  performed its last concert in 2003.  At present, Mr. Witchel is the dance writer for the New York Post.