Tere O’Connor has been making dances since 1982 and has created more than 35 works for his New York-based company. The company’s Pillow debut was the 1989 engagement seen here, and they returned with Cover Boy in 2013. O’Connor’s work has also been presented at the Pillow by Mikhail Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Project, while other companies who have performed O’Connor’s work include the Lyon Opera Ballet, Carte Blanche, and De Rotterdamse Dansgroep. O’Connor received the first of his Bessie Awards for Heaven Up North, which was described by Burt Supree in The Village Voice as “a strange, sacramental, utterly fanciful journey.” As part of the Pillow’s festival-within-a-festival known as “Splash!,” Heaven Up North was presented in the Ruth St. Denis Studio.
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