Tamar Rogoff

Tamar Rogoff is an American choreographer and filmmaker .

Her works have been performed at the Kennedy Center , the Lincoln Center , the PS 122 , the La Mama Theater and the Estonia National Opera in Tallinn. She often chooses unusual locations for her productions, such as Angle of Ascent on a nine-meter-high tower above the square at Lincoln Center, In Deep in large water tanks and Demeter's Daughter in the streets and on the roofs of the Upper East Side .

The Ivye Project was created in 1994 in a Belarusian forest at a mass grave of 2,400 Holocaust victims (including Rogoff's relatives) , which later became the subject of her film Summer in Ivye . This was screened at Hampton's International Film Festival and the Jewish Festival at Lincoln Center. In cooperation with an association of war veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder, Daughter of a Pacifist Soldier was created in 2001 . In 2005 she choreographed the solo dance piece Christina Olson: American Model for Claire Danes on PS122 , in 2007 Edith & Jenny , an interdisciplinary work for Claire Danes and Ariel Flavin .

In 2003, Rogoff founded Solar 1 , a center for environmental education and art, of which she is the director. For more than 20 years she also gave art workshops in prisons and psychiatric clinics. In Enter the Faun (Anatomy Theater) (2009), she attempted a crossover between art and science by bringing surgeon Philip Bauman , dancer Emily Pope-Blackman and Gregg Mozgala , an actor with cerebral palsy , on stage together. In addition to many production jobs (including from the Association of Performing Arts Presenters , the Trust for Mutual Understanding , the New York Foundation for the Arts , the Harkness Foundation , the New York Theater Workshop's Suitcase Fund ), Rogoff received four National Endowment for the Arts awards . In 2009 she became a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation .

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SURNAME	Rogoff, Tamar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American choreographer and filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH	20th century