The Betsy invites you to a weekly wine & cheese reception hosted by hotel owner, Jonathan Plutzik. Take an hour to get to know the Artist in Residence as part of The Betsy Writer's Room residency program.
Presented in partnership with Pioneer Winter Collective, Stephan Koplowitz is an award winning director/choreographer/media artist known for his work on stage, film and site. His work aims to alter people’s perspectives of place, site, and scale, all infused with a sense of the human condition. He is concerned with the intersection of natural, social and cultural ecologies within urban and natural environments and his original works for public spaces aim to allow communities to discover and rediscover the knowns and unknowns of their own town square. Since 1984 he has created 91 works (64 commissions) in the US, Europe and Asia. The recipient of an Alpert Award in the Arts, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a NYC “Bessie” Award, six NEA Choreography Fellowships (1988-97), he is currently the full time Artistic Director of Kop Art, Inc. His most recent production, The Northfield Experience, a joint commission from St. Olaf and Carleton College, is an immersive production of over 10 events (dance, theater, media, music) inspired and sited throughout the city of Northfield, MN, May 4-6, 2018. Other recent productions took place at Lewiston, ME (Mill Town) for the Bates Dance Festival and Occupy, commissioned by the mixed-ability AXIS Dance Company at the Yerba Buena Gardens, SF (both 2017). He was a 2017 Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Resident Fellow working on a book project: On Site with Sight - Methods for Site-Specific Performance and Creation. Koplowitz is in Miami, for the second time, as the Artistic Mentor to Grass Stains, a site-specific initiative created by the Pioneer Winter Collective. Grass Stains focuses on the mentoring and commissioning of original site-specific, site-adaptive, and public art works by South Florida-based choreographers and performance artists. For more info on Stephan Koplowitz and to see examples of his work: http://www.stephankoplowitz.com/