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Photo by: Rebecca Lepkoff
DANIEL LEPKOFF is a dancer, dance maker, improvising performer, teacher, and writer. His work looks at functional movement as a finely tuned physical dialogue with the environment and explores the form and composition of this interaction as a language for making dances. He has developed techniques based on this approach that form a dance practice as well as a research into moving and living in the world. He is known for his commitment to composing dance works that bring the process of living movement onto the stage.
During the early '70s and into the mid '80s he has played a central role in the early development of Release Technique with Mary Fulkerson and Contact Improvisation with Steve Paxton. During this period he traveled extensively; actively teaching, performing, and exposing these new ideas worldwide.
He was one of the founders of Movement Research in NYC (1975). He played an active role in defining the initial conception of this seminal organization: designing new programs, curating events, teaching regular classes and offering intensive workshops.
Video still: Time, Space, & Sound Bakelit Theatre, Budapest, Hungary March 2007
Living in New York City in the '80's Daniel performed in the works of several choreographers including: Trisha Brown, Mary Overlie, Judy Padow, & Nancy Topf. In his own solo and group work he experimented with the elements of voice, text, film & video, photography, interactions with physical objects, and constructing sets for performance.
From 1982 to 1987 he was a member of the New York based improvisational performance ensemble "Channel Z". Channel-Z's work investigated the spontaneous, focused, and deeply physical movement states occurring in Contact Improvisation and developed the compositional potential of this approach to address all aspects of theater.
Over the years Daniel has engaged in several long term and important collaborations with other performing artists including: Lisa Nelson, Steve Paxton; Paul Langland, Saira Blanche Theater in Moscow (Oleg Soulimenko and Andrej Andrianov), Hungarian experimental musician Dora Attila and Japanese dancer, Sakura Shimada, among others.
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He has published numerous articles articulating concepts that are central to his approach to dance making. These writings appear in Contact Quarterly, The MR Performance Journal, and Contredanse Publications in Bruxelles.
He has an ongoing interest in sound and video compositions, photography, singing and playing the guitar, mathematics, & house building.
DANIEL LEPKOFF is a dancer, performer, and teacher known for
bringing the process of living movement into the studio and onto the stage. He sees dancing as the
imagination acting through the body. His work approaches movement as a physical
dialogue with the environment.
During the early '70s and into the mid '80s he has played a central role in the development of
Release Technique with Mary Fulkerson
and Contact Improvisation with Steve Paxton.
Over the course of more than three decades he has looked closely at the interweaving
of sensation, perception, and action arising in the
body's ever present interactions with its' environment and developed dance techniques for
practicing and bringing this material on the stage.
Daniel is one of the founders of Movement Research in NYC.
He also writes and makes video/films investigating various aspects of his work.
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