Keely Garfield Dance

“[Her work is] wicked, witty and full of prickly dance intelligence.”
Jennifer Dunning

“If laughter is the best medicine, Keely Garfield ought to bottle herself, her performers and her dancers as an over-the-counter cure for innumerable ills.”

“A modern dance choreographer with an unmistakable voice, [her work] brims with literate, colorful dance achievement.”

September 2007 - Yeast Nation the triumph of life by Greg Kotis and Mark Hollman (creators of Urine Town, The Musical), Perserverence Theater, Juneau, Alaska

March 6 to 9, 2008 - Limerence, West End Theater, New York

April 2008 - Wind-Up, Murakami Project created by David Brick (headlongdancetheater), and Dan Rothenberg (Pig Iron Theater), Princeton, NJ

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The Bessie Schönberg Laboratory in Composition
Under the direction of Keely Garfield and Lawrence Goldhuber
8 Sessions - Fridays, 10am-1pm
February 8-March 28, 2008
(Note: Final Showing will be held on March 28 at 2pm)
Application Guidelines
Deadline for submissions: December 10, 2007 Dance Theater Workshop's Bessie Schönberg Laboratory in Composition provides an opportunity for experienced choreographers to present, view, and discuss new work. A select group of artists are accepted into the Lab to work under the direction of a guest choreographer and a guest critic. Bessie Schönberg and David R. White created the Laboratory in Composition in 1981 in an effort to provide a supportive alternative to the isolation within which artists often work. Over the course of eight sessions, participants work to develop a new piece. Artists are encouraged to use the time to explore unfamiliar directions and challenge the boundaries and assumptions they bring to their creative process. At the conclusion of the Lab, participants have an opportunity to present their work to friends and members of Dance Theater Workshop's Programming staff during an informal showing at Dance Theater Workshop's Bessie Schönberg Theater. Recent instructors include: Donna Uchizono, Yvonne Meier, Ishmael Houston-Jones, RoseAnne Spradlin, Patricia Hoffbauer, and Neil Greenberg. Participation in the Bessie Schönberg Laboratory in Composition is by application only. The fee for the workshop is $250 for Dance Theater Workshop members or $300 for non-members.