Member, NASD Board of Directors
Re-elected September 2014, term ends September 2017
Stephan Koplowitz is dean of The Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance and a member of the faculty at the California Institute of the Arts, a position held since 2006.
As a director/choreographer/media-artist, he has created 62 works and awarded 42 commissions. He is the recipient of a 2004 Alpert Award in the Arts (Dance), a 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship in Choreography, a 2000 New York Dance and Performance Award “Bessie” for “Sustained Achievement” in Choreography, along with six National Endowment for the Arts Choreography Fellowships from (1988-97). He is a contributor to the first book on site-specific choreography, Site Dance, (Florida University Press, 2009). His choreographic work was produced and commissioned by NYC’s Dance Theater Workshop (NY Live Arts) from 1987-2006, Dancing in the Streets, the American Dance Festival, Lincoln Center, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, the Bates Dance Festival, London’s Dance Umbrella Festival, Choreographic Center, Essen, Germany, among others. Stephan Koplowitz: TaskForce, a site-touring company, was inaugurated in 2008 with creative residencies/performances in Idyllwild, Los Angeles, CA (2008) and Plymouth, UK (2009) and Houston, Texas (2012). TaskForce has created over 20 site-specific works, collaborating with over 30 different artists in music, theater, visual arts and media. Revealed, a site-adaptive public art installation/performance involving portable room size camera obscuras, was installed in Battery Park City (2007), MASS MoCA and the Mead Museum, Amherst in 2008. Koplowitz, with architects KBAS, were the winners of a design competition for The Center for New Media at the Salt Lake City Community College for the installation of a permanent work of art, to be inaugurated June, 2013.
Dean Koplowitz earned a Master of Fine Arts in Choreography from the University of Utah, 1983 (Distinguished Alum Award, 2010); and a Bachelor of Arts in Music Composition from Wesleyan University, 1979 (Distinguished Alum Award, 1994).
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Revised September 2014