Tere O'Connor

Tere O'Connor
Born	1958 Rochester, New York
Occupation(s)	Dancer, choreographer
Years active	1979 - present

Tere O'Connor (born 1958) is an American dancer, choreographer and educator.

Life and career

Tere O'Connor was born in Rochester, New York, and graduated in 1979 with a B.A. from State University of New York at Purchase. He performed in the companies of Rosalind Newman and Matthew Diamond,^[1] and began working as a choreographer in 1982. He regularly collaborates with composer James Baker in works for the Tere O'Connor Dance company. O'Connor's works have been performed internationally. Notable dancers and choreographers including Lucy Guerin have danced with his company.^[2]

From 1990-99, O'Connor was an instructor in Dance at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, and he became a professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.^[3] He also teaches at Movement Research in New York City. Since 1989 he has been a member of the Artists Advisory Board of Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church in New York City.

Honors and awards

2009 Creative Capital Award
2006 New York Foundation for the Arts BUILD Grant
2003, 2005, and 2006 Rockefeller Foundation Multi Arts Production Grant
2005 New York Dance and Performance Award
2001 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award^[4]
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships in Choreography
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships in Choreography
1999 New York Dance and Performance Award
1993 Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
1988 New York Dance and Performance Award^[5]

Works

Selected works include:

2001 Choke
1999 Hi Everybody!
1998 The World Is a Missing Girl
1998 House
1996 Mother
1995 Greta in the Ditch
1994 The Death of Generous Henry
1988 Heaven up North^[5]

References

^ White, David R.; Friedman, Lise (1993). Poor dancer's almanac: managing life and work in the performing arts. p. 350.
^ "Lucy Guerin (1961-)". Archived from the original on 26 November 2003. Retrieved 14 January 2012.
^ La Rocco, Claudia (6 November 2009). "Not a Patriarch, but a Leader All the Same" (PDF). The New York Times. Retrieved 14 January 2012.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ "Tere O'Connor". Archived from the original on 2015-04-19.
^ ^a ^b "Tere O'Connor". Retrieved 14 January 2012.

External links

Official site
Tere O'Connor Dance RAMMED EARTH (excerpts)
Archival footage of Tere O'Connor Dance performing O'Connor's Cover Boy in 2013 at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival.