Name Jane Comfort | Role Choreographer | |
Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada |
Jane comfort s beauty promo 2012
Jane Comfort of Oak Ridge, Tennessee is an American choreographer, director, and dancer. She is the founder and artistic director of Jane Comfort and Company based in New York, NY.
Contents
- Jane comfort s beauty promo 2012
- Jane comfort s an american rendition missing person s report excerpt
- Biography
- Choreography
- Jane Comfort and Company
- Choreography Credits
- Awards
- Collaborators
- References
Jane comfort s an american rendition missing person s report excerpt
Biography
Jane Comfort earned a B.A. in Painting from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before finding her way to dance. After two years in the Peace Corps in Venezuela, she moved to New York and began studying with Merce Cunningham. She performed with a number of downtown choreographers, including David Gordon, Dana Reitz, Kenneth King, and Jamie Cunningham, before founding her own company in 1978. She has collaborated with visual artists, composers, spoken word artists, DJ's, puppeteers, and dancers to create dance theater works that integrate text and movement. Her work has been produced in Europe, South America, and throughout the United States. Comfort has never shied from relevant social issues and her work gives voice to those afflicted by these issues: women, gays and lesbians, the homeless, the disabled, and the abused.
Choreography
Jane Comfort has choreographed many works for modern dance stage as well as off-Broadway, Broadway, and opera stages.
Jane Comfort and Company
Choreography Credits
Awards
Collaborators
Comfort has worked with several artists to produce multidisciplinary dance theater works throughout her career. Her past collaborators include Tigger Benford, Arthur Elgort, Carl Hancock Rux, Joan La Barbara, Steve Miller, Toshi Reagon, Keith Sonnier, DJ Spooky, and puppeteer Basil Twist.