ABOUT

Contremune Dance is a global dance company and collaborative platform for choreography, embodied research, and dialogue. Rooted in modern dance, the company approaches choreography as both artistic practice and method of inquiry—using movement as a site for physical dialogue, social research, and collective exploration.

Through the creation of repertory, interdisciplinary collaboration, and community engagement, Contremune Dance investigates themes of social justice, labor, identity, and inequality. The work is grounded in a commitment to building empathy, challenging systems of “othering,” and creating space for complexity, nuance, and the full human experience.

Founded in 2013, Contremune Dance has presented work throughout New York and New Jersey at venues including Riverside Church Theatre, Triskelion Arts (Fertile Ground Series), Dixon Place, The Connelly Theatre, Manhattan Movement Arts Center, Shetler Studios, Liberty University, and Small Plates Festival. The company has also participated in Voices Transposed, in partnership with UNHCR, bringing artistic attention to the Syrian refugee crisis.

Over time, Contremune Dance has evolved beyond a traditional modern dance company into a multidisciplinary platform that brings together artists across disciplines. This expanded model centers research, dialogue, and collaborative co-creation—positioning dance not only as performance, but as a tool for inquiry, peacebuilding, and community-based exchange.

Through performances, research initiatives, workshops, and public dialogue, Contremune Dance develops movement-based frameworks that connect the arts to broader questions of reconciliation, wellbeing, and systemic change.

Mission

Contremune Dance uses choreography to create empathetic, movement-based dialogues that foster connection, support community engagement, and challenge systemic inequality.

Current Collaborations:

Contremune Dance is currently collaborating with composer Moira Lo Bianco on Hysterical Women, premiering at the International Human Rights Arts Festival (IHRAF) in June. This interdisciplinary work explores themes of gender, labor, control, and emotional expression within contemporary social structures.

Blending choreography, sound, and text, Hysterical Women interrogates the historical and ongoing regulation of women’s bodies and voices—examining how expectations of productivity, care, and composure shape lived experience. The work draws on repetition, endurance, and constraint as compositional tools, creating a physical landscape that reflects both internal and external pressures.

Through this collaboration, Contremune Dance continues to expand its practice at the intersection of choreography, research, and social inquiry, using performance as a site for critical reflection and embodied dialogue.