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Award-winning choreographer and author Stephen Koplowitz The importance of thoroughly researching a place’s history and understanding one’s own relationship to history when producing a site-specific performance was discussed. He describes live work as disruptive and all performances political.
Listen to Stephan’s episode body and soul podcast here. Scroll down to learn more about his own history and work!
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| occupy Author: Stephan Koplowitz (Photo: George Simian) |
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Stephen Koplowitz is an award-winning artist/educator who creates site-specific and stage-based works
Dance performances, interactive media installations and short films. his live performance purpose
Changing people’s perceptions of place, location and scale, injecting a human touch
conditions, and focus on the intersection of natural, social and cultural ecologies
urban and natural environments. His work is produced through the performing arts
93 works (66 commissioned) were created in domestic and foreign venues, throughout the United States, Europe,
and Asia. He received the 2017 Rockefeller Bellagio Fellowship, the 2004 Alpert Award, the 2003
Guggenheim Fellowship, Bessie 2000, and 6 NEA Choreographic Fellowships (1988-97). he
Named Distinguished Alumnus by Wesleyan University (B.A. in Music Composition)
University of Utah (M.F.A., Choreography). In April 2022, Oxford University Press published his
well-received books On-Site: Methods for Creating Site-Specific Performance. life in koplowitz
In New York City. https://www.stephankoplowitz.com
