A choreographer and dancer with more than 30 years of experience working in experimental and post-modern dance forms, Jordan Fuchs comes to the world of video with an abiding interest in the possibilities of video to extend and transform dance, whether through recontextualizing stage dances to yield new meanings, through directing audiences’ attention to dances of ever-growing nuance and subtlety, to exploring possibilities for magical realism not possible on the stage or through blurring boundaries between visual and performing arts.

Committed to exploring the unmediated, expressive capacity of the human body in motion, in stillness and in relationship, he delights in the dancemaking process, collaborating with dancers in the obsessive, intuitive, work of crafting experiences, complex and multifaceted, and stretching notions of what dance is and where it can happen.

His choreography has been hailed as “magical” by Jennifer Dunning of the New York Times and presented at numerous venues across the US, receiving support from Danspace Project’s Commissioning Initiative, the New York State Music Fund, the DTW Suitcase Fund, the Council for International Exchange of Scholars and the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, Czech Republic among others.

His choreography for screen, including projects with collaborators Melissa Sanderson and Yeajean Choi, has been presented nationally and internationally at venues including the Seoul Dance Film Festival, São Carlos Videodance Festival in Brazil, Dans Kamera Istanbul Festival in Turkey, Festival Agite y Sirva in Mexico and the Light Moves Festival of Screendance in Ireland.

A Professor of Dance and Division Head at Texas Woman’s University, Fuchs is the founder of the Texas Dance Improvisation Festival and a former Fulbright Specialist. He has taught workshops across the US and internationally in Taipei, Moscow, Puerto Rico, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Western Australia, Mexico and England. A former Dance Specialist in the Jerome Robbins Moving Image Archive of the Dance Division of the New York Public Library, he holds a BA in Religion from Oberlin College and an MFA in Choreography from Ohio State University where he was awarded a University Fellowship. www.jordanfuchs.org