Dan Safer

Dan Safer is the Artistic Director of Witness Relocation witnessrelocation.org and has choreographed/ directed all of their shows, 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 thru a show and almost killed him. Dan recently choreographed Jedermann at the Salzburg Festival in Austria and Ashley Tata’s “Dom Juan” at Bard SummerScape.

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 Rite of Spring for Philadelphia Orchestra with Obie-winners Ridge Theater. Artforum Magazine called him "pure expressionistic danger" and Time Out NY called him "a purveyor of lo-fi mayhem.” He has choreographed fashion shows, music videos, and films, got kicked out of high school for a year, used to be a go-go dancer, was a member of Anhoni’s Blacklips Performance Cult in the 1990s, and once choreographed the Queen of Thailand’s Birthday Party.

Dan taught at NYU for many years and is currently faculty (Senior Lecturer in Dance) at MIT’s Department of Theater Arts.

IG: @dansafer