Stephan Koplowitz
American artist, director, choreographer
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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&
Born1956 (age 69–70)
Washington, D.C.
EducationWesleyan University
(BA music composition)
University of Utah
(MFA Modern Dance Choreography)
(BA music composition)
University of Utah
(MFA Modern Dance Choreography)
SpouseJane Otto
Stephan Koplowitz | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1956 (age 69–70) Washington, D.C. |
| Education | Wesleyan University (BA music composition) University of Utah (MFA Modern Dance Choreography) |
| Known for | contemporary dance site-specific art media arts |
| Spouse | Jane Otto |
| Awards | Alpert Award in the Arts Bessie Award Guggenheim Fellowship |
| Website | www |
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]
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]