STEFANIE BATTEN BLAND | COLLABORATOR
2016 Jerome Robbins Awardee Stefanie Batten Bland is a choreographic artist. Her interdisciplinary creative practice is embedded in human relationships. She investigates people, our communicative choices and how we fit into space and place. Her work is situated at the intersection of installation and dance theatre in live performance settings.
Based in New York since 2011, the Company was initially founded in France while Stefanie was the head choreographer of the Paris Opéra Comique. Her social and philosophical messages are visceral and accessible to a diverse public, enabling people to embrace emotional content from a place of kinetic empathy.
Commissions include TU Dance Company (2017); Second Avenue Dance Company (2017); Zenon Dance Company (2013,2015); Transitions Dance Company (2014); Ailey ll (2012) and Singapore’s Frontier Danceland (2012).
Awards and fellowships include Jerome Robbins Award (2016); Bessie Schonberg Choreography Fellow at The Yard (2016); Kevin Spacey Foundation Artist’s Choice Award (2015); Alvin Ailey Foundation New Direction Choreography Fellow (2014, 2015); Joffrey Ballet Choreographer of Color (2014); and the Baryshnikov Arts Center & Jerome Robbins Foundation NEW Fellow (2010-2012).
Stefanie performed for Pina Bausch, Georges Momboye, Bill T. Jones, Compagnie Pal Frenak, Compagnie Linga, Angelin Preljocaj, Sean Curran, Julie Taymor, PunchDrunk’s SleepNoMore, and Lar Lubovitch among others...
Currently, Stefanie is an artistic advisor for the Alvin Ailey Foundation Choreographic Lab Fellowship Program, performs for PunchDrunk and is completing her Masters in Interdisciplinary Arts with a concentration in Performance Creation at Goddard College in Vermont.
photo credit courtesy of NJDTE: Veronika Antanevich
2016 Jerome Robbins Awardee Stefanie Batten Bland is a choreographic artist. Her interdisciplinary creative practice is embedded in human relationships. She investigates people, our communicative choices and how we fit into space and place. Her work is situated at the intersection of installation and dance theatre in live performance settings.
Based in New York since 2011, the Company was initially founded in France while Stefanie was the head choreographer of the Paris Opéra Comique. Her social and philosophical messages are visceral and accessible to a diverse public, enabling people to embrace emotional content from a place of kinetic empathy.
Commissions include TU Dance Company (2017); Second Avenue Dance Company (2017); Zenon Dance Company (2013,2015); Transitions Dance Company (2014); Ailey ll (2012) and Singapore’s Frontier Danceland (2012).
Awards and fellowships include Jerome Robbins Award (2016); Bessie Schonberg Choreography Fellow at The Yard (2016); Kevin Spacey Foundation Artist’s Choice Award (2015); Alvin Ailey Foundation New Direction Choreography Fellow (2014, 2015); Joffrey Ballet Choreographer of Color (2014); and the Baryshnikov Arts Center & Jerome Robbins Foundation NEW Fellow (2010-2012).
Stefanie performed for Pina Bausch, Georges Momboye, Bill T. Jones, Compagnie Pal Frenak, Compagnie Linga, Angelin Preljocaj, Sean Curran, Julie Taymor, PunchDrunk’s SleepNoMore, and Lar Lubovitch among others...
Currently, Stefanie is an artistic advisor for the Alvin Ailey Foundation Choreographic Lab Fellowship Program, performs for PunchDrunk and is completing her Masters in Interdisciplinary Arts with a concentration in Performance Creation at Goddard College in Vermont.
photo credit courtesy of NJDTE: Veronika Antanevich