Dan Safer

Safer is the artistic director of dance/theater company Witness Relocation and has directed/choreographed all of their shows, ranging from fully scripted plays (including world premieres by Chuck Mee and an English language premiere by Toshiki Okada) to original dance/theater pieces, to many things in between, all over the place, from the back rooms of bars in NYC to Théâtre National de Chaillot in Paris to a giant leaky warehouse at a dance festival in Poland where a light fell off the grid halfway through a show and almost killed him. Witness Relocation is a resident company at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in NYC.

Safer recently choreographed Jedermann at the Salzburg Festival in Austria. His work has been at Brooklyn Academy of Music, Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace, Les Subsistances (Lyon, France), and many other places. In 2011, he choreographed Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring for Philadelphia Orchestra with the Obie Award-winning Ridge Theater.

Artforum called him “pure expressionistic danger” while Time Out New York called him “a purveyor of lo-fi mayhem” and Culturebot recognized him as “a master of craft.”