Tere O’Connor Three Day Workshop

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In this workshop, we will consider how movement and its manipulation bring us to meaning production. What lurks behind the sign systems of body and shape that we can use to create richly layered choreographic statements.
We will make work daily and use the material to examine foundational questions about where information emanates from in movement based choreographies. What are we “reading” from a dance and how can we apply this?
Central to this examination will be a consideration of time as a tool to shape our making.

Tere O’Connor is the Artistic Director of Tere O’Connor Dance in NYC and a Center for Advanced Studies Professor in Dance at the University of Illinois. He has created over 45 works for his company, touring them extensively in the United States, Europe, Canada and South America. He has created many commissioned works for other companies; among these are works for the Lyon Opera Ballet and a solo for Mikhail Baryshnikov. He received a 2013 Doris Duke Performing Artist Award. He is a 2009 United States Artist Rockefeller Fellow, a Guggenheim fellow and has received numerous other grants and awards throughout his career. He has won three BESSIES (New York Dance and Performance Awards). In 2014, O’Connor was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. An articulate and provocative educator, he has taught at festivals and universities around the globe. He divides his time between Champaign and New York City, where he has worked with his company, taught and mentored young artists for the last 42 years.