Gregg Bielemeier
choreography and directionGregg Bielemeier is an Oregon-born dance artist who has worked on the West Coast and in Europe as a featured choreographer, performer and teacher for over 35 years. He is a frequent improvisor/collaborator with musicians, actors and visual artists, creating suave, witty dance works that have been described as "wonderfully inventive," by the Los Angeles Times, and as "marvelously goofy," by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
A founding core artist at Conduit Dance in Portland, Oregon, Bielemeier's work has been presented in Los Angeles by Dance Kaleidoscope, in Seattle at On the Boards and Northwest New Works Festival, at Holland's International Dance Festival, and in Portland by PSU's Contemporary Dance Season, Portland Art Museum, Imago Theater, Performance Works Northwest, and for White Bird's inaugural subscription series, a dance work titled, "Odd Duck Lake."
Recent projects have included the critically acclaimed Poodle Farm: City Boy Born in a Country Boy's Body, collaborations with Susan Banyas, including No Strangers Here Today and It's Been A Busy Week (in process), choreography for the Jefferson Repertory Dancers, Polaris Dance Theater, Tere Mathern Dance, and his most recent dance creation, Half of Some, Neither of Either, commissioned by dance presenters White Bird, with lighting sculptures by Hap Tivley, and music score by David Ornette Cherry, which premiered in December 2008.