Janice Garrett, artistic director of Janice Garrett + Dancers, is an internationally active choreographer and dance educator based in the San Francisco Bay Area. As a young dancer she was a member of Dan Wagoner and Dancers, with whom she performed and toured from 1984-89. In 1990, she began a freelance career—choreographing, performing and teaching throughout the US and abroad. During this time, she was commissioned to create dances for companies and performance groups in the US and Europe, was a frequent guest artist with the internationally renowned London Contemporary Dance Theatre and a guest teacher for numerous dance companies including Rambert Dance Company, DV8 Physical Theatre and Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures. Her choreography has been presented in San Francisco at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, The Cowell Theater, Theater Artaud, and ODC Theater and internationally at The Place Theatre, London, the Nott Dance Festival, Nottingham and Danse Scenen, Copenhagen. Garrett presented her first full evening of dance works in San Francisco in May 2001 and subsequently formed her company, Janice Garrett + Dancers.

About the Company

Garrett makes work about people, creating an extraordinary sense of kinship and connection. The Company is committed to a vision of dance as an expressive, unspoken form of communication that fosters understanding and a sense of community among people. Garrett and her company were honored in 2004 as one of Dance Magazine’s top “25 to Watch.”

Company History

Janice Garrett + Dancers was formed in 2002 by Artistic Director Janice Garrett who, after more than twenty years as a dance artist and independent choreographer, decided to put down creative roots in San Francisco. One of the Bay Area’s most dynamic dance companies, Janice Garrett + Dancers produces a home performance season, tours nationally, and offers ongoing classes and workshops at its home studio at ODC Dance Commons. Garrett and her company have received eight nominations for Isadora Duncan Dance Awards as well as the 2004 honor bestowed by Dance Magazine.

GRANTS AWARDED

In 2009, the Foundation supported the creation of a new work with Charles Moulton, The Experience of Flight in Dreams, an evening length dance theater work that will premiere in February 2011 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.