Tere O’Connor
2010-2011 Swing Space Resident, Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center At Governors Island
Tere O'Connor has been making dances since 1982 and has created over 35 works for his company. The company has performed throughout the US, and in Europe, South America, and Canada. O'Connor has created numerous commissioned works for dance companies around the world, among these have been works for Lyon Opera Ballet, White Oak Dance Project and many others. In addition to his 1996 work Greta in a Ditch for White Oak, he created a solo work for Mikhail Baryshnikov. A new solo entitled DAY for dancer Jean Butler commissioned by The Abbey Theater, premiered at the Dublin Dance Festival in May 2010.
Tere O'Connor is a 2009 United States Artist Rockefeller Fellow. He is a recipient of a Foundation for Contemporary Performance Art Award, Arts International's DNA Project Award, and a Creative Capital Award. He has received three New York Dance and Performance (Bessie) Awards - One for Heaven Up North in 1988, another in 1999 for Sustained Achievement, and most recently for his work Frozen Mommy (2005). O'Connor is a 1993 Guggenheim Fellow. He is also a recipient of repeated grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, NEFA/National Dance Project, the New York Foundation for the Arts, The MAP Fund, Jerome Foundation, Altria Group, Inc., The Harkness Foundation for Dance, and Mid Atlantic US Artists International.
A much sought after teacher, O'Connor has taught at the Bates Dance Festival, American Dance Festival, Colorado Dance Festival, Ohio State University, University of Minnesota, Arizona State University, at the School for New Dance Development (The Netherlands), and ImpulseTanz (Austria), among others. He is currently a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
While in residence at Governors Island, O'Connor will begin to develop a new work for presentation at Danspace Project in NYC for December 2011.
