Stephan Koplowitz

Stephan Koplowitz is a director and choreographer and media artist specializing in site-specific multimedia performances. Since the 1980s, Koplowitz, an international site artist and former Dean of Dance at CalArts, has dedicated himself to site-specific work. He has made work on and for the steps of the New York Public Library, in the halls of London’s Natural History Museum, in a German factory, and in the windows of Grand Central Station Koplowitz was one of 14 artists included in the book Site Dance: Choreographers and the Lure of Alternative Spaces edited by Melanie Kloetzel and Carolyn Pavlik, published by Florida University Press, 2011 In 2022, Koplowitz's book, On Site - Methods for Site-Specific Performance Creation was published by Oxford University Press: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/on-site-9780197515242?cc=us&lang=en&

Awards and fellowships

 * 2017 – Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency Fellowship
 * 2015 – The Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation and The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Choreographic Commission
 * 2014 – ColumbusAlive.com named Sullivant Travels, by Stephan Koplowitz, Best Dance of 2014
 * 2013 – Houston Press, awarded Natural Acts in Artificial Water, Best Ensemble Production of 2013
 * 2010 – Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of Utah
 * 2007 Boston Globe named Koplowitz’ (iseea) one of the ten best dance works of 2007
 * 2004 Alpert Award in the Arts
 * 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship in Choreography
 * 2003 Dance Theater Workshop’s Artist Resource and Media Laboratory Fellowship
 * 2000 New York Dance and Performance Awards (“Bessie”)
 * 1996 – Time Out Magazine’s Best Dance Production Award to Genesis Canyon
 * 1994 – Distinguished Alumnus Award from Wesleyan University (class of 1979)

Selected works

 * 2018 The Beginning as part of The Northfield Experience
 * 2018 Past the Past as part of The Northfield Experience
 * 2018 Reading Time as part of The Northfield Experience
 * 2018 The Northfield Experience (production) – Commissioned by St. Olaf and Carleton Colleges in association with the city of Northfield, Minnesota
 * 2018 – Mill Town – Commissioned by the Bates Dance Festival
 * 2017 – Occupy (a site-specific journey through an urban garden)Commissioned by the AXIS Dance Company, co-presented with the Dancers' Group and Yerba Buena Gardens Festival
 * 2015 – Play(as) As part of Trolley Dances 2015, Commissioned by the San Diego Dance Theater
 * 2014 – The Past is Up (Sullivant's Travels)
 * 2014 – Horizon Time (Sullivant's Travels)
 * 2014 – Learn, Capture, Repeat (Sullivant's Travels)
 * 2014 – One Way: A Telematic Trio (Sullivant's Travels - A site-specific journey through the mind of a building-Commissioned by The Ohio State University Department of Dance and College of Arts and Sciences
 * 2013 – Red Line Time, a site-adaptive durational performance for all fourteen stations of LA Metro’s Red Line
 * 2013 – lines, tides, shores… A site-specific performance in three sections for the Cudahy Gardens, Milwaukee Art Museum
 * 2013 – The Current Past, A site-specific performance for the North Point Water Tower, Milwaukee, WI
 * 2012 – Natural Acts in Artificial Water, part of Stephan Koplowitz: TaskForce
 * 2012 The Chair Yields Gustavus Adolphus College,
 * 2012 in situ, Eckman Mall, Gustavus Adolphus College
 * 2012 The Old New Thing for the Torrey Atrium, Warren & Donna Beck Academic Hall, Gustavus Adolphus College
 * 2012 (Re)Fraction, A site-specific performance in lighted windows of Christ Chapel, Gustavus Adolphus College
 * 2009 Taskforce: Liquid Landscapes UK
 * 2008 Five Entrances into a War Machine
 * 2008 Taskforce: Liquid Landscapes LA
 * 2008 Taskforce: Mapping IdyllWild
 * 2007 Revealed at Amherst
 * 2007 iseea
 * 2006 Revealed (NYC)
 * 2006 A Walk Between Two Worlds
 * 2005 Light Lines
 * 2004 The Grand Step Project
 * 2003 Terrarium
 * 2001 (In)Formations
 * 2000 Aquacade for Asphalt Green
 * 1999 Kokerei Projekt: Kohle Korper
 * 1999 Fenestrations2
 * 1998 Babel Index
 * 1998 War with the Newts
 * 1997 Webbed Feats
 * 1996 Genesis Canyon
 * 1996 Off the Walls
 * 1993 Thicker Than Water
 * 1991 The Governed Body
 * 1990 Fall Weather Friend
 * 1989 Big Thirst
 * 1987 Fenestrations
 * 1986 Untitled (Ethiopia Suite)
 * 1986 Famished
 * 1985 I’m Growing
 * 1983 – Heart Throb Theater