FRED DARSOW is a choreographer whose work has been presented by Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace Project at St. Mark’s, The Kitchen, Jacob’s Pillow, American Dance Festival, Expo ‘98/Lisboa, Nuyorican Poets’ Café, Lincoln Center Institute, Central Park Summerstage, DIA Art Foundation, Dixon Place, Movement Research, The Flea, among other venues in and around New York. His company has toured throughout the U.S. and in Portugal.
The FRED DARSOW DANCE COMPANY was formed in 1986 directly after Darsow graduated with a BALA in Choreography and Literature from SUNY Purchase. Since that time, Darsow has choreographed over thirty completed works with his company. He has received a number of grants including from the Joyce Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Meet the Composer, the Harkness Foundations for Dance, Dance Theater Workshop’s Suitcase Fund, the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, Dance Ink, Travelers’ Grant, Patricia Harris Fellowship, the Patty Foresman Fund, and commissioning support from DTW’s First Light Project and Danspace Project’s Commissioning Initiative. From 1995-98 on a complete fellowship, he received an MFA in Dance from Arizona State University.
Darsow has performed and/or choreographed with other dance artists among them Wendy Perron, Tour de Fuerza, Carlota Santana Spanish Arts, Los Canasteros, La Meira, Patricia Hoffbauer, Doug Elkins, Susan Rethorst, Stephanie Skura, Ann Ludwig, Lola Montes, Polygram Videos, and the Opera Company of Philadelphia. He has been the dance artist in residence at Denison University, Wesleyan University, and Stephens College. He has also taught workshops/master classes at the Trisha Brown Studios, the New York Dance Intensive, and at Fazil’s Dance Studio in NYC as well as at NYU, ASU, OSU, Trinity College, Bucknell University and other universities throughout the country. In the summer of 2000, he taught at several studios in and around Mumbai, India. In 2002, He assisted Trisha Brown in the reconstruction of Luci, mie traditrici for the Opera de Rouen in France. Recently, he showed work in Colombia and Scotland. He created and showed 3 films at University of Utah/SLC and Victoria Island, Canada. Last spring, he was a guest artist for the Attakkalari Movements Arts Center in Bangalore, India. He is currently an Associate Professor at U. of Texas/Pan American where he teaches flamenco, choreography, and modern dance.
Darsow has studied modern dance on scholarship at the Merce Cunningham and Trisha Brown studios. He has studied at the Limon Studio among others. Flamenco studies included—in Spain with Manolete, Ciro, El Guito, Ana Lopez, Concha Vargas, Maria Magdalena, and La China; and in the USA with Jose Molina, La Meira, La Conja, Alejandro Granados, Antonio Canales, Chuni Amaya, Carmela Greco, El Junco, and Roberto Amaral. He has studied choreography with Bessie Schoenberg, Sara Stackhouse, Sara Rudner, and Kazuko Hirabayashi.
Curriculum Vitae
Fred Darsow, MFA
Associate Professor
Email:
frederick.darsow@utrgv.edu
Edinburg, HPE II, Room 110
Phone: 956-665-2315
