Jane Comfort
of Oak Ridge, Tennesee is an American choreographer, director, and dancer. She is the founder and artistic director of Jane Comfort and Company based in New York, NY.
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Biography
Jane Comfort earned a B.A. in Painting from the
University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill before finding her way to dance. After two years in the Peace Corps in Venezuela, she moved to New York and began studying with
Merce Cunningham. She performed with a number of downtown choreographers, including David Gordon, Dana Reitz, Kenneth King, and Jamie Cunningham, before founding her own company in
1978. She has collaborated with visual artists, composers, spoken word artists, DJ's, puppeteers, and dancers to create dance theater works that integrate text and movement. Her work has been produced in Europe, South America, and throughout the United States. Comfort has never shied from relevant social issues and her work gives voice to those afflicted by these issues: women, gays and lesbians, the homeless, the disabled, and the abused.
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Choreography
Jane Comfort has choreographed many works for
modern dance stage as well as off-Broadway, Broadway, and opera stages.
Jane Comfort and Company
- Steady Shift
(1978)
- Sign Story
(1979)
- Eatless Textures
(1981)
- Incorrect Translations
(1982)
- Artificial Horizon
(1983)
- TV Love
(1985)
- Cliffs Notes: Macbeth
(1986)
- Portrait
(1989)
- Deportment: South
(1990)
- Deportment: North
(1991)
- Faith Healing
(1993)
- S/He
(1995)
- Three Bagatelles for the Righteous
(1996)
- Underground River
(1998) Bessie Award
- Asphalt
(2001)
- ''Persephone' (2004)'
- Fleeting Thoughts: Mr. Henderson's 3AM
(2006)
- An American Rendition
(2008)
Choreography Credits
- Passion
(1994) Original Broadway Musical, Plymouth Theatre, NY [2]
- Amour
(2002) Original Broadway Musical, Music Box Theatre, NY [3]
- Wilder
(2003) Original Off-Broadway Musical, Playwrights Horizons, NY [4]
- Much Ado About Nothing
(2004) Shakespeare in The Park, Central Park, NY [5]
- Salome
(2006) Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago [6]
Awards
- New York Dance and Performance Award (Bessie Award) 1998
Collaborators
Comfort has worked with several artists to produce multidisciplinary
dance theater works throughout her career. Her past collaborators include Tigger Benford,
Arthur Elgort,
Carl Hancock Rux,
Joan La Barbara, Steve Miller,
Toshi Reagon,
Keith Sonnier,
DJ Spooky, and puppeteer
Basil Twist.
References
- Carbonneau, Suzanne (2006) "Jane Comfort's America" ''Bates Dance Newsletter''
- IBDB - Passion (Broadway)
- IBDB - Amour (Broadway)
- Playwrights Horizons
- New York Times, July 14, 2004
- New York Times, October 23, 2006