Jill Sigman/Thinkdance
jill sigman is a choreographer, performer, writer, and teacher, who draws upon her training in classical dance, academic philosophy, and the visual arts. She has been making dances and performance installations since the early 90s. Sigman’s work has been seen in NYC at such venues as Danspace Project, Dance Theater Workshop, Dancing in the Streets, BAX, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, and Dixon Place, and internationally in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Croatia, Hungary, Slovenia, Serbia, Mexico, and India. Her work has been recognized by the Jerome Foundation, the American Music Center, NYSCA, and the New York Foundation for the Arts, among others, and she has been a Choreographic Fellow at the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography, and a Movement Research Artist in Residence. In 2003, she left 200 texts about why she makes art around NYC- in taxis, phone booths, public bathrooms, and supermarket freezers.
Founded in 1998, jill sigman/thinkdance asks questions through the medium of the body. Often using non-traditional environments, formats, and ways of engaging the viewer, we transform simple actions like walking on eggshells, sliding down the stairs, and eating hot pink roses into complex statements about self, society, and human experience.
www.thinkdance.org
http://thinkdance.wordpress.com
www.myspace.com/jillsigmanthinkdance