Sisyphus, conceived, directed and edited by the collaborative team of Daniel and Stefanos Milkidis, premieres. Inspired by the majestic landscape of northern California, this meditation on time, futility and work updates the Greek myth to show Sisyphus forever pushing a wheeled piece of farm machinery. Click HERE to watch!
The Company produced No Trespassing, a seven-and-a-half-minute film a year ago when in residence in northern California, and releases the film as the third of fifteen events marking the Company’s fifteenth anniversary virtual season. Directed by Stefanos Milkidis and featuring Daniel, the site-specific dance film screened last July at the American Dance Festival’s International Screendance Festival. Click HERE to watch.
We produced this behind-the-scenes film capturing the aspiring dancers of The Joffrey Ballet School’s Jazz and Contemporary Program as they learn our acclaimed show Encore and prepare for performance. The performances will be held at the Salvatore Capezio Theater, February 22 and 23, 2014. However you don’t need to be in New York City to […]
In celebration of our fifteenth anniversary season we announce the Winter/Spring Film Festival 2014, a series of dances on video, culminating in a weekend of performances at the BAM Fisher in Brooklyn. Looking both backward and forward, we will host fifteen events: dance films from the repertory, special video projects, five new dance films made […]
FULL SCHEDULE CLICK HERE! Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company made its full program debut as a Company in New York in the summer of 1999. Reviewing Daniel Gwirtzman’s ambitious Plasma Field at the un-air conditioned Merce Cunningham Studios during a record heat wave, Madeleine Dale reviewed the evening-length premiere in Attitude:The Dancers’ Magazine: “Even the audience […]
June 28, 2013, 4:30pm Sacatar Foundation, Itaparica, Bahia. The culmination of Daniel’s two month residency at the Sacatar Foundation culminated in a public performance at the Institute’s dance studio/theater. Students and professionals joined Daniel for this unique, site-specific live show. Once it was dark several of the collaborative dance-for-camera films shot and edited in Bahia […]
Performance at Abrons Arts Center Sunday, April 7, 2013, 3pm In preparation for its fifteenth anniversary celebration, Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company presented a program of premieres and reconstructions at the Abrons Arts Center’s Underground Theater in a one-performance only event, Sunday, April 7 at 3pm. The premieres included Narcissus, a solo for the choreographer, the […]
