Tere O’Connor has been making dances since 1982 and has created over thirty 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 solo work for Mikhail Baryshnikov and works for the Lyons Opera Ballet among numerous others .
O'Connor is a 1993 Guggenheim Fellow. He is the recipient of a Foundation for Contemporary Performance Art Award, National Dance Project Awards, and Arts International’s DNA Project Award. He has received three "Bessie’s”, New York Dance and Performance Awards- One for Heaven Up North in 1988, another in 1999 for Sustained Achievement, and most recently for his work Frozen Mommy (2005). He is also a recipient of repeated grants from many other funding organizations and foundations.
O’Connor was recently appointed full professor at University of Illinois at Champaign Urbana. He will live there for one semester a year and spend the rest of his time working with his company and on various other research aspects of his choreography. He is an active participant in the New York dance community mentoring young artists, teaching, writing, curating and volunteering in various capacities.
In 2008 O’Connor’s company will tour the recent work RAMMED EARTH around the United States, including in New York at the Baryshnikov Art Center in September. They will premiere a new work at Dance Theater Workshop in 2009.
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Tere O’Connor