“Redefining chaos… Fuchs has found a perfect title for the illusion of delicate complexity that he has created... What we see and hear in the beguiling collaboration between the choreographer and composer Andy Russ is sparer than most thickets… Yet, as in nature, surprises crop up, patterns come out of hiding, and sounds and imagery become denser.” Deborah Jowitt Village Voice
Jordan Fuchs is a choreographer, performer and teacher, whose choreography for stage, screen, museums and outdoor spaces focuses on the crafting of relationships between dancers, whether spatially through the use of counterpoint or through contact improvisation based partnering work, a movement form he has been practicing for more than 30 years. More recently his research has focused on language-based prompts for movement generation and on blurring boundaries between the visual and performing arts through explorations of dance as sculpture, painting and photograph.
Fuchs’ choreography has been hailed as “magical” by Jennifer Dunning of the New York Times and noted for creating “illusions of delicate complexity” by Deborah Jowitt of the Village Voice. He has received commissions from Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church and Dance New Amsterdam (NYC), Dancers’ Group Footwork Studio (SF), Kristina Isabelle Dance Company (OH), Perpetual Motion Dance (OKC), Alfred University and Texas Christian University among others and his choreography has been presented nationally at numerous venues including: Dance Theater Workshop, FLICfest, Movement Research at Judson Church, Performance Mix Festival, Dancenow/NYC, Dance New Amsterdam, the 92nd St. Y, Chashama and the Flea in New York City; Sushi in San Diego; Dancer’s Group Footwork and New Performance Gallery in San Francisco; Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation; Barnevelder Movement Arts Complex in Houston; Fuse Box Festival in Austin; New Genre Arts Festival in Tulsa and internationally by the emuARTSPACE, Seoul, Korea, Arts and Cultural Development Council of Geraldton, Western Australia and the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, Czech Republic. In addition, his choreography for screen, with collaborators Melissa Sanderson and Yeajean Choi, has been presented nationally and internationally at venues including the Seoul Dance Film Festival, São Carlos Videodance Festival in Brazil, Dans Kamera Istanbul Festival in Turkey, Festival Agite y Sirva in Mexico and the Light Moves Festival of Screendance in Ireland.
The founder of the Texas Dance Improvisation Festival, Fuchs is a former Fulbright Specialist, who has been on faculty at Hunter College and Movement Research and taught at numerous venues nationally and internationally, including at the Seoul International Improvisation Dance Festival, NTUA in Taipei, Tsekh Summer School in Moscow, WCCIjam and Contact Fest Freiburg. A former Dance Specialist in the Jerome Robbins Moving Image Archive of the Dance Division of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, he has served as a curator for the EnCore, Third Coast and kNOwBOX dance film festivals and as a performer for artists including K.J. Holmes, Kirstie Simson, Mark Dendy, Rebecca Lazier, and Scott Wells among others. Based in San Francisco in the early 90's and then in NYC, Fuchs is Head of the Dance Division and a Professor of Dance at Texas Woman’s University and a recipient of the prestigious TWU Mary Mason Lyon Award for Excellence in Scholarship, Teaching and Service. He holds a BA in Religion from Oberlin College and an MFA in Choreography from Ohio State University, where he was awarded a University Fellowship.
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