Guest Artists
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2000-2001
Guest Artists 2001-2002
Vicky Shick (Fall 2001)
Ms. Schick has worked as a performer, teacher and choreographer in New York
City since the 1970's. She was a member of the Trisha Brown Company between
1980 and 1986. She recently returned to the company for performances of Brown's
"Glacial Decoy" in New York and Vienna. In 1985 she received a "Bessie"
for performance. Shick has also performed with many other choreographers,
including Yoshiko Chuma, Irene Hultman, Risa Jaroslow, Deborah Jowitt, Wendy
Perron, Stephen petronio Marta Renzi and Sara Rudner. Ms. Shick regularly
teaches in New York at Movement Research and at the Trisha Brown Studio. She
has taught in festivals and workshops in the U.S. and throughout Europe. For
the last 20 years, Ms. Shick's choreography has been shown in New York City
at the Kitchen, St. Marks's Church, DTW, Judson Church, Dia Foundation, Playhouse
91 and University Settlement House. She has recently presented work in Switzerland,
France and Hungary. This past spring, she completed a duet as part of the
New York-Budapest-Vienna Dialogue and Dance, shown in New York at Dance Theater
Workshop and in Budapest, her home town. Since 1995, Shick has worked with
visual artist, Barbara Kilpatrick, Still Lives is their sixth collaboration
Tere O'Connor (Spring 2002)
Tere O'Connor has been making dances since 1982, creating over thirty works
for his company. His work has appeared in such venues as the Joyce Theater's
Altogether Different Series and Dance Theater Workshop, St. Mark's Church,
P.S. 122, The Kitchen, and Symphony Space. The company has performed throughout
Europe, South America and Canada. O'Connor is a 1993 Guggenheim Fellow. He
has received two "Bessie" awards, one for Heaven Up North in 1988,
and another in 1999 for Sustained Achievement, citing Hi Everybody. He is
also a recipient of repeated grants from the National Endowment for the Arts,
New York State Council on the Arts, The New York Foundation for the Arts,
the Jerome Foundation, Philip Morris, Inc., the Harkness Foundation, the Joyce
Mertz-Gilmore Foundation, and Arts international. As a teacher O'Connor was
a ballet instructor at New York University's School of the Arts for the nine
years. He has been artist in residence at the Ohio State University Dance
Department several times. He has created many dances on students at these
and other universities. He teaches regularly at Movement Research in New York
City. He has been a facilitator for Fieldwork, a Consulting Artist for P.S.
122, and on the Artists Advisory Board at Danspace Project.