The Company in the opening section of Intersections, from the 1999 dance Plasma Field. Photo: Kevin Suttlehan

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund has allocated a grant of $10,000 to the NYC nonprofit toward the creation of an interactive educational digital resource geared toward a general viewership.

The project, Dance With Us, seeks to bridge the divide separating dance from mainstream culture, underscoring the primacy, purpose, and possibility of dance in contemporary life. Combining the instructional with the performative, the resource aims to increase the public’s knowledge of dance and their dance literacy, to share the love of dance, and to introduce ways to view, speak about, and participate in dance with comfort.

This project is deeply aligned with the Company’s core values, pedagogy, and programming, which has consistently gained acclaim. This digital resource will be distributed widely and freely, contributing to the Open Educational Resources movement (OER), in which knowledge is shared without cost, providing access to all.

The Company’s 20th Anniversary Season continues this fall when we take our hit interactive show Welcome To The World of Dance on the road to the Whitney Center for the Arts in Sheridan, Wyoming as a featured main stage event in their 2019/2020 season. A narrated primer of how to view and speak about dance, Gwirtzman and Company present a range of acclaimed dances from the Company’s diverse, accessible, and entertaining repertory.

The New York Times called the show “a delightful introduction…explaining what contemporary choreography is all about. The dancers then take the lesson several thrilling steps further by inviting the young audience members to join in. By the time the last strains of the score from Saturday Night Fever were heard, most of the adults were on their feet, too.”

In Sheridan we’ll be working with various communities–elementary school children, high school, college students, and older adults–and incorporating them into the performance. A talkback follows, providing the audience the opportunity to gain insight into the program from hearing the choreographer’s, other collaborators’, and dancers’ perspectives, and then a highly energetic, dance workshop comprised of simple, easy-to-learn, folk and social dances. All will be invited to participate regardless of age, ability, or dance experience. Everyone can dance!

Filmed in Ménerbes, France in the stunning landscape of Provence, Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company’s film The Performer considers constructions of performance and homes in on the curvilinear separating fantasy from reality and drama from camp. The Performer screens at La Maison Dora Maar where it was filmed thanks to generous support from the Museum of […]

Daniel premiered Re-Do at Dixon Place on June 4, 2019. The 18-minute solo encompasses a range of textures, from the introspective to the theatrical, the gestural to the full.

Dixon Place Presents DGDC in performance June 4, as part of Moving Men, a series of new choreography featuring all male dancers. In Re-Do, Daniel “re-does” the pre-existing solo Doodling, expanding and recontextualizing it in the irreverent and playful spirit of the Company’s 20th Anniversary season and challenging the dancer who’s been with the Company […]

Intersections receives a rave review at onstageblog.com! “Provocative, whimsical, and ethereal, the Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company defies expectations of postmodern dance and soars, unafraid to take risks and dazzle with unflinching honesty.” Read the full review HERE!  

This eye-popping photograph encapsulates the high mark that was the Company’s recent 20th Anniversary Season at The 92nd Street Y (February 2019). The dancers hurdled the new choreographic and performing challenges with expression and ease, reaching new heights. Appropriate for a Company that’s known for its optimism and is based in New York’s historic Washington […]

Intersections, February 22 & 23, 8pm BUY PERFORMANCE TICKETS! Opening Night Gala Reception Following Performance, February 22 PURCHASE GALA TICKETS HERE! Welcome to the World of Dance: Family Show, February 24, 3pm PURCHASE FAMILY SHOW TICKETS HERE! Come party with us as we celebrate our 20th Anniversary and the premiere of INTERSECTIONS. Mingle and dance […]

20th Anniversary Season brings back favorite dancers and dances. The 92nd Street Y presents the Company in two programs.  This milestone season celebrates twenty years of superlative dance performed by a cast of exemplary longtime Company dancers. Intersections (PREMIERE) Friday, Feb 22, 2019, 8pm and Saturday, Feb 23, 2019, 8pm Buttenwieser Hall at The 92nd […]

Daniel arrived in Wyoming this week for his five-week residency as a Ucross Fellow. Past Fellows: ten Pulitzer Prizes, nine MacArthur Foundation Grants, six National Book Awards, seven Tony Awards, two Academy Awards, three Golden Globes, 74 Guggenheim Fellowships, and more…Movies based on works by Ucross Fellows include Eat Pray Love (Elizabeth Gilbert) and Brokeback […]