Stephanie Skura has been creating movement-based performances for over 40 years, and is an inaugural "Bessie" New York Dance & Performance Award winner.

She choreographed for and with her own New York-based, then Seattle-based touring company for 15 years. She currently works independently with various companies and soloists.

Much of her work is collaborative. She was among the first choreographers to recognize & implement an interdisciplinary approach, integrating dance with video, text, theater, visual art, and music.

She is an early and astute pioneer of a process of working collaboratively with performers, involving them in discovery, development, and aesthetic ownership of the material -- resulting in powerful, transformative performance experiences.

Notably, Skura has consistently resisted gratuitous unison, and has been guided by, among other things, a rigorous avoidance of cliche. Her former agent, Ann Rosenthal of Soho Booking, has called her 'reliably irreverent.'

During the past fifteen years, she has integrated poetic text, movement and theater. She was Associate Artistic Director of The Gravity Project, an integrative movement theater company affiliated with Juniata College in Pennsylvania, 2004-10. (www.juniata.edu/departments/theatre)

Some companies that have commissioned her work: Container12 at the International Dance Center in Brescia, Italy, Ballet Theatre of Canada, Moving Current of Florida, Zenon of Minneapolis, Toronto Dance Theatre, D-9 Dance Collective of Seattle.

Solo artists who have commissioned her work: Manuela Bondavalli, Paige Barnes, Jessica Runge, Julie Mayo, Linda Johnson, and Dale Andree.

Selected Works