Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective
Stephan Koplowitz
American artist, director, choreographer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Remove ads
Stephan Koplowitz is a director and choreographer and media artist specializing in site-specific multimedia performances. Since the 1980s, Koplowitz, an international site artist and former Dean of Dance at CalArts,[1] has dedicated himself to site-specific work. He has made work on and for the steps of the New York Public Library, in the halls of London’s Natural History Museum, in a German factory, and in the windows of Grand Central Station[2] Koplowitz was one of 14 artists included in the book Site Dance: Choreographers and the Lure of Alternative Spaces edited by Melanie Kloetzel and Carolyn Pavlik, published by Florida University Press, 2011[3] In 2022, Koplowitz's book, On Site - Methods for Site-Specific Performance Creation was published by Oxford University Press: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/on-site-9780197515242?cc=us&lang=en&
Remove ads
Awards and fellowships
- 2017 – Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency Fellowship[4]
- 2015 – The Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation and The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Choreographic Commission[5]
- 2014 – ColumbusAlive.com named Sullivant Travels, by Stephan Koplowitz, Best Dance of 2014[6]
- 2013 – Houston Press, awarded Natural Acts in Artificial Water, Best Ensemble Production of 2013[7]
- 2010 – Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of Utah[8]
- 2007 Boston Globe named Koplowitz’ (iseea) one of the ten best dance works of 2007
- 2004 Alpert Award in the Arts[9]
- 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship in Choreography [10]
- 2003 Dance Theater Workshop’s Artist Resource and Media Laboratory Fellowship
- 2000 New York Dance and Performance Awards (“Bessie”)[11]
- 1996 – Time Out Magazine’s Best Dance Production Award to Genesis Canyon
- 1994 – Distinguished Alumnus Award from Wesleyan University (class of 1979)[12]
Remove ads
Selected works
- 2018 The Beginning as part of The Northfield Experience
- 2018 Past the Past as part of The Northfield Experience
- 2018 Reading Time as part of The Northfield Experience
- 2018 The Northfield Experience (production) – Commissioned by St. Olaf and Carleton Colleges in association with the city of Northfield, Minnesota[13]
- 2018 – Mill Town – Commissioned by the Bates Dance Festival[14]
- 2017 – Occupy (a site-specific journey through an urban garden)Commissioned by the AXIS Dance Company, co-presented with the Dancers' Group and Yerba Buena Gardens Festival[15]
- 2015 – Play(as) As part of Trolley Dances 2015, Commissioned by the San Diego Dance Theater[16]
- 2014 – The Past is Up (Sullivant's Travels)
- 2014 – Horizon Time (Sullivant's Travels)
- 2014 – Learn, Capture, Repeat (Sullivant's Travels)
- 2014 – One Way: A Telematic Trio (Sullivant's Travels - A site-specific journey through the mind of a building-Commissioned by The Ohio State University Department of Dance and College of Arts and Sciences[17]
- 2013 – Red Line Time, a site-adaptive durational performance for all fourteen stations of LA Metro’s Red Line[18]
- 2013 – lines, tides, shores… A site-specific performance in three sections for the Cudahy Gardens, Milwaukee Art Museum [19]
- 2013 – The Current Past, A site-specific performance for the North Point Water Tower, Milwaukee, WI[20][19]
- 2012 – Natural Acts in Artificial Water, part of Stephan Koplowitz: TaskForce [21]
- 2012 The Chair Yields Gustavus Adolphus College,[22]
- 2012 in situ, Eckman Mall, Gustavus Adolphus College[22]
- 2012 The Old New Thing for the Torrey Atrium, Warren & Donna Beck Academic Hall, Gustavus Adolphus College[22]
- 2012 (Re)Fraction, A site-specific performance in lighted windows of Christ Chapel , Gustavus Adolphus College[22]
- 2009 Taskforce: Liquid Landscapes UK [23][24]
- 2008 Five Entrances into a War Machine [25]
- 2008 Taskforce: Liquid Landscapes LA [26]
- 2008 Taskforce: Mapping IdyllWild [27]
- 2007 Revealed at Amherst [28]
- 2007 iseea [29][30]
- 2006 Revealed (NYC) [31]
- 2006 A Walk Between Two Worlds [32]
- 2005 Light Lines [33]
- 2004 The Grand Step Project [34]
- 2003 Terrarium [35]
- 2001 (In)Formations [36][37]
- 2000 Aquacade for Asphalt Green
- 1999 Kokerei Projekt: Kohle Korper [38]
- 1999 Fenestrations2 [39]
- 1998 Babel Index [40]
- 1998 War with the Newts [41]
- 1997 Webbed Feats [42][43]
- 1996 Genesis Canyon [44]
- 1996 Off the Walls [45]
- 1993 Thicker Than Water [46]
- 1991 The Governed Body [47]
- 1990 Fall Weather Friend [48]
- 1989 Big Thirst [49]
- 1987 Fenestrations [50]
- 1986 Untitled (Ethiopia Suite) [51]
- 1986 Famished [52]
- 1985 I’m Growing [53]
- 1983 – Heart Throb Theater [54]
Remove ads
References
External links
Wikiwand - on
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Remove ads