Stephan Koplowitz

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&

Stephan Koplowitz
Born1956
Washington, D.C.
NationalityAmerican
EducationWesleyan University
(BA music composition)
University of Utah
(MFA Modern Dance Choreography)
Known forcontemporary dance
site-specific art
media arts
SpouseJane Otto
AwardsAlpert Award in the Arts
Bessie Award
Guggenheim Fellowship
Websitewww.skoplowitz.com

Awards and fellowships

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]

References
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  2. "In Practice: Stephan Koplowitz on Making Site Work". dancersgroup.org. Retrieved June 26, 2019.
  3. Kloetzel, Melanie; Pavlik, Carolyn (2011). Site Dance. doi:10.5744/florida/9780813034003.001.0001. ISBN 9780813034003.
  4. "The Rockefeller Foundation Announces Selected Bellagio Center Resident Fellows".
  5. "Six $50,000 Commissions for Choreographers Awarded by the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation".
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  7. "Best Ensemble Production: Stephan Koplowitz's "Natural Acts in Artificial Water"". Houston Press. Retrieved February 18, 2017.
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