Stephan Koplowitz

Stephan Koplowitz is an award winning director/choreographer/media artist internationally known for his work on the concert stage and for creating original site-specific multi-media works for architecturally significant sites. His site work aims to alter people’s perspectives of place, site, and scale, all infused with a sense of the human condition. Since 1984 he has created 57 works and has been awarded 41 commissions. He is the recipient of a 2004 Alpert Award in the Arts (Dance), a 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship in Choreography in addition to a 2000 New York Dance and Performance Award, “Bessie” for “Sustained Achievement” in Choreography. Koplowitz is also the recipient of six National Endowment for the Arts Choreography Fellowships from (1988-97). In 1996, his site-specific work Genesis Canyon commissioned by the Dance Umbrella Festival, for the Natural History Museum in London won Time Out Magazine’s Award for “Best Dance Production of 1996”. He has created site-specific works for NY’s Lincoln Center (2001), the internet based Webbed Feats NY’s Bryant Park (1997), the British Library (1998), a coal processing plant in Essen, Germany (1999), the windows of Grand Central Terminal. In 2007, he was commissioned by Summers Stages Dance to create a site-specific work for the newly opened Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA) in Boston. The work, (iseea), was named one of the best dance productions of 2007 by the Boston Globe. He is currently touring with his site company Stephan Koplowitz: TaskForce, which has performed in Idyllwild and Los Angeles in 2008 and Plymouth, UK in 2009. After working and living in New York City for 23 years, Koplowitz, in 2006 accepted the position of dean of Dance at the California Institute of the Arts. More information and videos can be seen at www.koplowitzprojects.com .