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Tere O'Connor has been making dances since 1982 and has created over 30 works for his company. The company has performed throughout the US and in Europe, South America and Canada. O’Connor has created numerous commissioned works for dance companies around the world, among these have been works for Lyon Opera Ballet, White Oak Dance Project, de Rotterdamse Dansgroep, Holland; Carte Blanche, Norway; Dance Alloy in Pittsburgh, PA; and Zenon in Minneapolis, MN.
Tere O'Connor is a 1993 Guggenheim Fellow. He is the recent recipient of a Foundation for Contemporary Performance Art Award, a National Dance Project Award, and Arts International’s DNA Project Award. He has received three New York Dance and Performance "Bessie" Awards for his work. He is also a recipient of repeated grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, The New York Foundation for the Arts, Rockefeller Foundation/MAP Fund, Jerome Foundation, Altria Group, Inc., Bossak/Heilbron Charitable Foundation, The Harkness Foundation for Dance, and Arts International.
As a teacher, O'Connor was a ballet instructor at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts for nine years. A much sought after teacher, O’Connor has also taught at the Bates Dance Festival, American Dance Festival, Ohio State University, University of Minnesota, Arizona State University, at the School for New Dance Development (The Netherlands), and Tanzwochen (Austria), among others. He is currently a professor at the University of Illinois in Urbana Champaign.
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