Dance Makers 2021 Program

MUSICIAN
Mark Dancigers
Mark Dancigers is a composer of chamber, orchestral, film, and solo instrumental
works, and the electric guitarist for the new-chamber music group NOW Ensemble.
Praised for his “entrancing”
music in the New York Times,
Dancigers creates scores
that are melodically driven,
texturally imaginative, and
sonically vibrant. He holds
degrees in music from Yale,
the Yale School of Music, and
Princeton University, and is
Assistant Professor of Digital
Media and Music at New
College of Florida.
PHOTO BY ANJA SCHUTZ
He scored the film “The Measure of All Things” by Oscar nominated director Sam
Green, which premiered at the Sundance Festival with a live soundtrack performed
by yMusic. The film score has been performed subsequently in the Netherlands,
Greece, the U.K., and venues around the United States. Dancigers also co-scored,
with Troy Herion, the feature documentary “The Dog” about the life of John
Wojtowicz, the subject of “Dog Day Afternoon”.
Dancigers has collaborated with New York City Ballet choreographer Justin Peck for
a pas de deux called “The Bright Motion”. He has also collaborated with New York
City Ballet choreographer Troy Schumacher and his group Ballet Collective on a pas
de deux, “The Last Time This Ended”. The latter was praised in the Huffington Post
as “creeping, majestic, and fantastical; it feels textured, like if you could touch the
music, it would prick you.”
Mark Dancigers’ music has been performed at the the Guggenheim Museum,
Bilbao Spain, Apples and Olives Festival in Zurich, the Nordernzon Performing Arts
Festival in the Netherlands, The Athens Concert Hall, Greece, Sydney, Australia,
Carnegie Hall, Miller Theater, Symphony Space, Merkin Hall, BargeMusic, the
Kitchen NYC, Arts Brookfield at the Brookfield Place Winter Garden, the Bang
on a Can Marathon, the Percussive Arts Society International Conference, the
Skaneateles Festival, and numerous other venues.
His orchestra music has been performed by the Alabama, Minnesota, Cabrillo, and
New York Youth Symphony Orchestras.
As an album producer, his credits include pianist Michael Mizrahi’s “Currents”
(2016) and “The Bright Motion” (2012), which made the Top Ten Best Classical
Releases of 2012 in both Time Out New York and Time Out Chicago.
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