THINKDANCE INC
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Mission Statement
I founded jill sigman/thinkdance in 1998 to raise questions through the medium of the body. An experimental dance company based in New York City, jill sigman/thinkdance presents work that exists at the intersection of dance, theater and visual installation, often employing non-traditional environments, formats, and ways of engaging the viewer. After my doctoral studies in philosophy at Princeton University, I wanted to give people a more visceral experience of thought than the printed word allowed. Drawing on my background as a classically and modern-trained dancer and choreographer, I began to juxtapose movement with elements such as video, text, visual objects, and simple technologies (like cell phones) to create layered landscapes of meaning which explore the questions I care about. I have gravitated to alternative venues, socially conscious topics, and work that questions the borders of my own artistic discipline.
About This Cause
Founded in 1998 by choreographer Jill Sigman, jill sigman/thinkdance presents performance that asks questions through the medium of the body. Influenced by dual backgrounds in dance and academic philosophy, Sigman creates work rich in bold images and multi-media elements that prods the psyche to think and feel. She transforms simple actions like walking on eggshells, sliding down the stairs, and eating hot pink roses into complex statements about self, society, and human experience. Based in New York City, jill sigman/thinkdance now exists at the intersection of dance, theater and visual installation. The New York Times calls Sigman a choreographer of “prodigious imagination and intelligence.” The work of jill sigman/thinkdance has been produced by such New York venues as Danspace Project, Dance Theater Workshop, The 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Center, Dancing in the Streets (Dances for Wave Hill), P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, P.S.122 (Hothouse), The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, and Dixon Place, and has been seen regionally in New Jersey, California, Tennessee, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Iowa. Internationally, Sigman’s work has been seen in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Croatia, Hungary, Slovenia, Yugoslavia, India, and recently at the CODA Oslo International Dance Festival in Norway. The company has been profiled and received critical acclaim in such publications as The New York Times, Time Out New York, The Village Voice, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Trenton Times, The Princeton Alumni Weekly, NIN (Belgrade), Pro Femina (a Serbian feminist journal), The Hindu (New Delhi), and The Financial Express (New Delhi). The company has received support from such notable cultural funders as the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), the Jerome Foundation, the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, the Manhattan Community Arts Fund, the Bay and Paul Foundations, the Puffin Foundation, the Bossak/Heilbron Charitable Foundation, the American Music Center “Live Music for Dance” Program, the NY State Music Fund, and the Kri Foundation (New Delhi); space grants from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, The 92 St Y Harkness Dance Center, Gina Gibney/Studio 5-2, and Princeton University; a Gina Gibney Dance “Women at Work” Award for Choreographic Achievement; and three Swarthmore Project Residencies for Choreographers and Dancers from Swarthmore College (2000, 2003, 2009). Sigman has been a Choreographic Fellow at the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography at Florida State University, a Movement Research Artist in Residence (2005-06), an Artist in Residence at the Guapamacátaro Interdisciplinary Residency in Art and Ecology in Mexico (2007), a resident at the ASAP Acadia Summer Art Program (2011), a Fellow of the Center for Creative Research at NYU (2012), and an Artist in Residence at Wesleyan University’s Center for the Arts (2012). Works have been commissioned by Parsons The New School for Design (2012), Arts@Renaissance (2012), the 92 St Y Harkness Dance Center (2010 and 2001), Danspace Project (2007), Dixon Place (2004), the Brooklyn-based multi-arts collective Red Dive (2003), P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center (2001), and Dancing in the Streets (1999). Sigman’s choreography has also been commissioned by GroundWorks Dance Theater of Ohio, Pennsylvania Dance Theatre, and University of Iowa “Dancers in Company”.