Valerie Green

Valerie Green has been an active dancer, choreographer, and teacher in the New York City dance community since 1995. After graduating from University of Wisconsin-Madison and studying as one of the Erick Hawkins school’s last students, Green sought a platform for her own innovative movement style and artistic vision. She founded Valerie Green/Dance Entropy in 1998.

To date, Green has created 44 dances including 10 evening-length works, all of which incorporate forms of original production, musical composition, innovative set design or new media. Her choreography has been presented extensively throughout the US and New York City at venues and events including: Danspace Project @ St. Mark's Church, Wave Hill, Pioneer Works, Queens Museum, La Mama Moves Festival, Museum of the City of New York, New York Hall of Science, the NYC Department of Transportation's Car Free Earth Day, Summer & Open Streets, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Joyce Soho, Movement Research & Crossroads at Judson Church, Chashama, Mulberry St. Theater, Materials for the Arts, Dance Now at Dance Theater Workshop, Center for Performance Research, Tribeca Performing Arts Center, Wild Projet, University Settlement, the 92nd St. Y, Hunter College, Context, The Flea, Cunningham Studio, Dixon Place, IATI Theater,Hudson Guild Theater, LaGuardia Performing Art Center, Jamaica Performing Arts Center, Baruch Performing Arts Center, Kupferberg Center for the Arts, Theater for the Riverside Church, Queens Theater, Triskelion Arts Center, Flux Factory, Queens Botanical Garden, Socrates Sculpture Park, Flushing Meadows Unisphere, Dorsky Gallery, Plaxall Gallery, Grace Exhibition Space, Voelker Orth Museum, Mannes College, Dance New Amsterdam, St. Sava Cathedral, Idlewild Nature Preserve and Green Space.

Internationally, Green has toured to Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Burkina Faso, Canada, Colombia, Croatia, Cuba, France, Georgia, Greece, Guatemala, India, Italy, Lebanon, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Sweden, and Togo both as VG/DE’s artistic director and an individual teaching and performing artist. She is a sought out speaker on multiple podcasts, and is regularly invited to participate as a distinguished guest moderator, panelist and committee member in culture programs across the city. And is currently a member of the Queens Borough President’s General Assembly, the Queens Chamber of Commerce Performing Arts Committee and a former member of the Bessie’s New York Dance and Performance Awards.

As a teacher, Green has integrated classical modern technique with her own somatic based movement practice to develop an individualized style called Dance Your Frame. She also leads series of movement workshops for non-dance populations rooted in the philosophy that all bodies can benefit from dance. Whether it’s working with the professional or aspiring dancer or leading workshop and performance residencies for trauma survivors, older adults, persons with differing abilities or at-risk youth, Green fosters creativity, physicality, and healing beyond the stage. She is a certified practitioner in Core Energetics and Body/Mind Fitness.

In order to provide VG/DE a permanent company home and root her outreach programs in the community, Green founded a studio in Long Island City in 2005. Green Space is an unparalleled dance hub in Queens, providing performance opportunities for choreographers, classes for beginners and professionals and space rental for doers of all backgrounds. At Green Space, artists and community members alike hone their craft and experiment in a warm, welcoming environment that’s wholly devoted to dance.