About jill sigman/thinkdance
Founded in 1998 by choreographer Jill Sigman, jill
sigman/thinkdance presents conceptual dance that
asks questions through the medium of the body. Following in
the tradition of European dance theater, Sigman creates work
rich in bold images and multi-media elements. 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 exists at the intersection of
dance, theater and visual installation, often using
non-traditional environments, formats, and ways of engaging
the viewer. Audience members might be asked to use their cell
phones, write secret messages, or wear Superman T-shirts
during a performance. Works have been made for theaters,
gardens, a dilapidated Socialist printing house in Belgium, a
brick munitions storage building, a fence over the Gowanus
Canal, and other unusual locations.
With an indelible fingerprint and a brainy heart, Sigman has
been described as "always provocative" and a choreographer of
“prodigious imagination and intelligence” (New York
Times). Swerving, channel-flipping, hallucinatory dance
theater, jill sigman/thinkdance prods the
psyche to think and feel.