Heidi Latsky Dance supports the educational, artistic and outreach projects of Heidi Latsky. The company’s mission is to bring contemporary dance to a broad audience in a visceral and emotional way with performers whose unique attributes, physical and otherwise, are honored and utilized in highly dynamic, virtuosic and provocative ways; and to expose people to alternative ways of looking at their lives through community programs that emphasize discourse, experiential risk-taking and body work.
Heidi Latsky (Director/Choreographer/Performer) has been in the dance world for many years, as a choreographer for stage, theater and film. Latsky initially received recognition as a celebrated principal dancer for Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance (1987-1993). Her work and company have toured extensively throughout the United States and Europe, performing at preeminent venues and festivals like Central Park Summerstage, Dance Theater Workshop and Judson Church in NYC, the Kennedy Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music and Festivals in Canada, Croatia and Slovenia. Latsky has received many distinguished choreographic commissions including Cannes International Dance Festival, American Dance Festival, the Joyce Theater, Danspace Project, Teatro Libero (Palermo), The Whitney Museum of American Art and the 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Project. Recent commissions have included Li Chaio Ping Dance, Point Park College, Hofstra University, Infinity Dance Theater and the AIDS Service Center of New York City. She has also created work for solo artists including Gus Solomons Jr, Maxine Sherman, Janet Lilly, and Michael Thomas. She has received two nominations from the New York Innovative Theatre Awards for her work with Director Mary Fulham and is a faculty member at Hofstra University.
Latsky has a BA in Psychology with Honors from Carleton University (1979). There, she received the Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement and The Ottawa Ladies College Scholarship. Her company with Lawrence Goldhuber, Goldhuber & Latsky, received the Scripps/ADF Primus-Tamaris Fellowship for Choreography. She was a recipient of the McGinnis Lectureship Award from Point Park College and was chosen to represent Canada at the Suzanne Dellal International Dance Competition in Tel Aviv and at Danse à Lille, France.
In NYC, she headed the Movement Department at The School for Film and Television from 1998-2005 where she developed The Latsky Method, her teaching practice. She has taught this method as well as set many choreographic works at institutions around the world. She has served on the Artist Advisory Board of Danspace Project since 2000 and is a Society for Arts in Healthcare member. She has served on panels like the Pew Charitable Trust and the Omega: Women and Power Conference.
Latsky continues her work with Theater Director Mary Fulham (for whom she has received two Innovative Theater Award nominations for her choreography) and her new LUXXURY SUITE (her collaboration with the San Francisco based band) has been presented at The Chen Dance Center and at Mansion, NYC.
