About Dan
Dan Safer is the Artistic Director of dance/theater company Witness Relocation and has directed/ choreographed 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 in Poland where a light fell off the grid halfway thru aperformance and almost killed him. WR is a resident company at LaMama Theater in NYC. Dan’s recent choreography includes Hoi Polloi’s productions of “Family” by Celine Song and “Winning Is Winning”; “Jedermann” starring Lars Eidinger at the Salzburg Festival, Austria; direction/ choreography for Chuck Mee’s “Aristotle Thinks Again” with Great Jones Rep. Other notable places he’s done shows include the Brooklyn Academy of Music and an opera house in Transylvania.He got kicked out of high school for a year, used to be a go-go dancer, and once choreographed the Queen of Thailand’s Birthday Party. Dan is a Senior Lecturer and Director of Dance Programs at MIT.
Photo credits:
Color by Jean Claude Dhien
B&W by Maria Baranova
