About

Founded in 1998, Valerie Green/Dance Entropy believes in humanizing movement, both in Ms. Green’s critically acclaimed choreographic work and the company’s mission to plant creative seeds in communities across the world. Intersecting mortal and transcendent, sensual and sophisticated, visceral and self-aware, VG/DE invites the artist, the audience—the human—into a compelling, physical experience. Based out of its home studio, Green Space in Queens, NY, VG/DE combines performance and specialized outreach programs to inspire communities in cultural institutions throughout the world. VG/DE strives to break down systemic race, gender and other identity barriers to fulfill our ultimate goal of collectiveness and inclusivity through dance. As a professional nonprofit dance company, the communities we engage with have included at risk youth, adolescents, trauma survivors, differently-abled persons, senior citizens and aspiring/professional dancers.

The VG/DE Mission

• Create a platform for multicultural understanding through dance

• Nurture connections between dance creation and education

• Build community among dance artists

• Foster physicality, creativity and empowerment in underserved communities

Artist Statement

My focus of artistic practice is to inspire, initiate and challenge myself, one another and/or a group to explore our internal states, life experiences, joys, struggles, and curiosities.  I craft movement explorations which delve carefully into one’s cognitive and physical landscapes including self-perception/identity, dislocation, culture, history, upbringing, and ideology. My interdisciplinary art making process includes interactive discussions surrounding the concepts explored and the movements created. To this end, my work attempts to research social and personal transformation, the nature of the human body, and the structures of human communication, interaction and connection through the lens of carefully guided movement practices.