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Encore for ENCORE at KeyBank Fringe Festival

The KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival and GeVa Theatre Center present the Company in its acclaimed hit show Encore. Performances will take place on Saturday, September 15 at 6:30PM, Sunday, September 16 at 1:00PM and Sunday, September 16 at 6:30PM at The Fielding Stage at Geva Theatre Center, 75 Woodbury Blvd.

Tickets, priced at $18 (student, $15, children, $12) can be purchased online at www.rochesterfringe.com.

Read about ENCORE HERE!

“I found myself grinning from one end of the piece to the other.” – Gay City News

Summertime’s Back! August 16! Free Show!

SAVE THE DATE! The Company’s revered Summertime Suite will be presented by the 37th annual Battery Dance Festival Thursday, August 16, at 7pm. The free, outdoor performance is a perfect summertime event for the whole family. Bring your blanket and basket full of goodies! You won’t want to miss this show, “the best of them all.” (Back Stage)

Information about the Festival including subway and driving directions on Battery Dance Festival’s site!

Battery Dance Festival Promo 2018 from Battery Dance on Vimeo.

Doodling at Gdański Festiwal Tańca-Poland

Daniel performed his solo Doodling, seen above, at the Gdański Festiwal Tańca, in Gdańsk, Poland on June 14, 2018. The international solo dance festival featured other solo artists from France, Germany, Holland, Croatia, Israel, Spain, Italy, Greece, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, and Poland! “American Daniel Gwirtzman treated the title seriously in an unpretentious and witty […]

Affront Presented June 9/10 Performance Mix

The Company’s Affront will be presented June 9/10 by the celebrated Performance Mix Festival, now in its 32nd year. Performances: Saturday, June 9, 7pm and Sunday, June 10, 1pm at University Settlement, 184 Eldridge Street. BUY TICKETS HERE.

Affront Performance May 26 IDACO NYC Festival

Saturday, May 26-IDACO NYC, Italian Dance Connection presents The Company in Affront. Baruch Performing Arts Center, 8pm. Produced by Flusso dance project in collaboration with the Italian Culture Institute, and Baruch Performing Arts Center. BUY TICKETS HERE

Upcoming Performances

Saturday, March 17–The American College Dance Association’s Northeast Conference invites the Company to perform a suite of six dances from Encore. Two performances will take place the evening of the 17th at Montclair State University’s Department of Theatre and Dance. April 28, 29 (Saturday, Sunday)–The New York Jazz Choreography Project presents the Company in the […]

January 25, 8pm at Triskelion Arts in Brooklyn

Triskelion Arts has invited the Company to perform Thursday, January 25, 8pm, as part of their Never Before Never Again Festival. We will premiere Follow, a tightly-structured improvisatory quintet, which finds all the dancers together in the space for the first time on the performance day! The process consists of each dancer separately learning a […]

2017: The Year In Review! A Photo Album

THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA SCHOOL OF THEATRE AND DANCE FLORIDA SCHOOL OF THE ARTS: ST. JOHNS RIVER STATE COLLEGE CHARLOTTE DANCE FESTIVAL REPERTORY DANCE ENSEMBLE PICTA MOVEMENT COLLECTIVE, BELOIT COLLEGEDANCE AND NEW MEDIA CONFERENCE, NEW YORK UNIVERSITYKSU HIGH SCHOOL DANCE FESTIVAL, ATLANTA CHOREOGRAPHIC PROJECT FOR STRANGER THINGS’ NOAH SCHNAPPPICTA MOVEMENT COLLECTIVE, BELOIT COLLEGEKENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY […]

Praise for Shifting: “Left the audience in awe.”

“Two guest choreographers were brought to Sewanee and created pieces that flattered the dancers’ artistic ability and athleticism. Daniel Gwirtzman, artistic director of New York City-based Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company, crafted a duet for himself and director Courtney World that emphasized the power of simplicity and left the audience in awe. World’s and Gwirtzman’s movements […]

Shifting Performed December 7-10

Fifteen years ago this fall Shifting premiered at Joyce SoHo. Eva Yaa Asantewaa reviewed it in The Village Voice: “perhaps the most convincing unaffected tenderness I’ve seen in postmodern dance.” Fifteen years later the Company is proud the work continues to be presented–the wondrous life of a rep company! Shifting is performed Thursday, December 7 […]