Ted Stoffer
Born in 1970, Indiana (USA)
Ted Stoffer has danced for Scapino Ballet, Rambert Dance Company, Sasha Waltz & Guests and les ballets C de la B. He lived and worked in the Netherlands and the U.K., forming Aphasia Dance Company in 1997. He has produced four works for the company ranging from video registrations and interactive audience performance installations to straight forward dance productions. His latest production, “Rencontres des Imbeciles”, for his own company, Aphasia is still touring. In 2011, he is choreographing three productions in higher educational institutes in Germany and for Luk Perceval’s, MacBeth in Hamburg. In 2012, he cretaed the piece “A Scattered State of Silence”.
Ted Stoffer is a recipient of a Jerwood Award for Young Choreographers and has held several choreographer research positions. He has been commissioned by Norrdans (S), and Ballet Roto (RD).
He was movement and choreographer’s assistant to Koen Augustijnen of les ballets C de la B and Said Gharbi and Ali Salmi of Les Ballets du Grand Maghreb.
He has taught regularly for Ultima Vez, Charleroi Danse, ImpulsTanz Festival, Sasha Waltz & Guests and additionally for: DV8, O Vertigo, CNDC Montpellier and Paris, Cirque-est Montreal, Re-Action Tokyo, P.A.R.T.S., and has conducted workshops in Korea, Sweden, Amsterdam, London, Barcelona, Athens, Bologna and Koln. He now resides in Belgium.
Sources: Aphasia Dance Company ; Les Ballets C. de la B. ‘s website
