Stuart Pimsler Dance

Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater (SPDT) is an internationally recognized performance company, founded in 1979 by Stuart Pimsler, and co-directed with Suzanne Costello since 1984. The company has been presented throughout the US and internationally in Canada, Europe, Israel, Taiwan, Russia, Bermuda, China, and Mexico. SPDT's community inclusive work,... which engages a diverse array of groups - students, caregivers, audiences, and community members - has been lauded as a "National Model" by The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and its Arts & Healthcare work has been recognized for "Best Practices" by the National Endowment for the Arts. SPDT has been a Twin Cities-based performance company for 15 years. The company's singular and elaborate work has garnered critical acclaim for its ability to situate highly physical, emotional vocabulary within stunning theatrical landscapes. In these imagistic worlds, SPDT creates poetic stories focused on love, loss, and the need for connection. SPDT's gifted company of performers and collaborating designers continues to realize a signature vision of "theater for the heart and mind". In the U.S., SPDT's work has been presented at The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Dance Theater Workshop (NYC), Jacob's Pillow, and The American Dance Festival, among many others. The company has twice been presented by the Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis. The Ends of Love was commissioned in 2007 for the inaugural season of its new space, and invited back in 2009 to present Tales of Longing over a two-week run. In 2006 Dancing Wheels, the first stand up/sit down company in the U.S. commissioned a new SPDT work, Big Trucks and Leverage, for both companies which was premiered to critical acclaim in Cleveland, Ohio. The company's Undercovers, commissioned by Pathways, was presented at the Illusion Theater and featured as part of a PBS documentary, Dance in the Dark, broadcast throughout the 2007-2008 viewing season. SPDT received a 2008 SAGE Award for Outstanding Performance for Pimsler's ...Read More