Tere O'Connor
Professor
Tere O'Connor has been making dances since 1982 and has created over 30 works for his company. The company has performed throughout the US and in Europe, South America and Canada. O'Connor has created numerous commissioned works for dance companies around the world, among these have been works for Lyon Opera Ballet, White Oak Dance Project and many others. In addition to his 1996 work Greta in the Ditch for White Oak, he recently created a new solo work for Mikhail Baryshnikov entitled Indoor Man.
Tere O'Connor is a 1993 Guggenheim Fellow. He is the recent recipient of a Foundation for Contemporary Performance Art Award, a National Dance Project Award, and Arts International's DNA Project Award. He has received three New York Dance and Performance "Bessie" Awards- One for Heaven Up North in 1988, another in 1999 for Sustained Achievement, and most recently for his work Frozen Mommy (2005). He is also a recipient of repeated grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, and many other foundations and funding agencies.
O'Connor was an adjunct faculty member at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts for nine years. A much sought after teacher, he has been an artist-in-residence at numerous universities and festivals around the world. He teaches regularly at Movement Research in New York City. His writing, curating and mentorship of young artists continue to feed his choreographic research as he witnesses the amazing transformation of the dance form.
Phone: 244-4475
