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Intuitional Certainty
August 6, 2024 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
INTUITIONAL CERTAINTY
“She takes ordinary language—the “language of information”— and makes it strange, forcing us to be acutely aware of the way words work.”
TERE O'CONNOR
Tere O’Connor is the Artistic Director of Tere O’Connor Dance in NYC. and a Center for Advanced Studies Professor in Dance at the University of Illinois. He has been making dances since 1983 and has created over 50 works for his company. He lived and worked between New York and Rome for the first nine years of his career. His 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 the Lyon Opera Ballet, White Oak Dance Project, Rotterdamse Dansgroep and many more. In addition to his 1996 work “Greta in a Ditch” for the White Oak Dance Project, he created a solo work for Mikhail Baryshnikov entitled “Indoor Man” and one for Riverdance alum Jean Butler, entitled “Day” produced by the Abbey theater in Dublin.
Tere O’Connor is a 2009 United States Artist Rockefeller Fellow. He is a recipient of a Foundation for Contemporary Performance Art Award, Arts International’s DNA Project Award, and a Creative Capital 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). O’Connor is a 1993 Guggenheim Fellow. He is also a recipient of repeated grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, NEFA/National Dance Project, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, the New York Foundation for the Arts, The MAP Fund, Jerome Foundation, Altria Group, Inc., The Harkness Foundation for Dance, and Mid Atlantic US Artists International.
A much sought after teacher, O’Connor has taught at the Bates Dance Festival,
American Dance Festival, Colorado Dance Festival, Ohio State University, University
of Minnesota, Arizona State University, at the School for New Dance Development
(The Netherlands), and ImpulseTanz (Austria), among many others. He is currently a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he resides for the spring semester, spending the rest of his time in NY or on tour.