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PATRICE M REGNIER: Choreographer, Director, Writer, Producer
Patrice M Regnier has choreographed, directed and produced over 200 performances and events in venues such as the Joyce
Theater, Alice Tully Hall, and Lincoln Center Out of Doors in New York, the Châtelet Theater and the Avignon Festival in
France, and the Opera House in Cologne and Academie de Kuntz in Berlin, Germany. A graduate of the Julliard School and Interlochen
Arts Academy, her choreography has been commissioned by theater and dance groups in the US and Europe. She is founder of three
entities - ARTeam, an association of art and technology experts, Human Development Productions which is a film and video group
and RUSH DANCE Company which for more than 20 years presented regular seasons in New York as well as toured internationally.
The Burlington Noontime Festival was founded and produced by Patrice as well as the At Home On Broadway series.
Ms Regnier's work for film and television has been broadcast nationally in several countries including France, Japan,
Russia and the US. Her awards include first prize for Art de Synthese from Paris Cité; double prize winner at the International
Choreographer's Competition, and the Clark Center Award.
She has been creative consultant for several companies including Interval Research Corporation, a company founded by Paul
Allen, co-founder of Microsoft. Her work with bodies and technology includes the first ballet that integrated 3-D human movement
computer animation (not motion capture) with live performance. This ballet, RAB, toured in several countries notably to Chicago
for SIGGRAPH in the Arie Crown Theater. In FOCI she incorporated a broad range of MIDI-controlled, custom electronic special
effects and robotics into live performance. For several years she has been developing the TERP System for designing and choreographing
unrehearsed group events. This work continues with regular experiments in New York City.
Having written three novels, she is writing, choreographing and directing 4 television programs that marry situation comedy,
virtual environments and dance. She has worked with such talents as, composer Liz Swados, Tom Brigham (inventor of morphing),
Carter Burwell (composer for, among many others, the Coen brothers' films), Sally Wilson (star of American Ballet Theatre),
Steve Bray (composer for the Broadway show THE COLOR PURPLE), Raymond LeGué (founder of Electrogig), Bran Ferren (Applied
Minds), and Joy Mountford.
Patrice has spoken at several conferences, including Imaginare Numerique, where she was a key presenter offering Stochastique
Choreography, a system she invented using a software program to create a morphing effect in live choreography. Her paper Soft
Dance, Performance Wear was published during this time. She consulted informally at the robotics department at Stanford University.
Patrice became interested in the possibilities of creating new technologies for dance and performing arts through discussions
with Marvin Minsky and Jerome Wiesner, the former serving on her board of advisors and the latter on her board of directors.
Her work was presented three times at SIGGRAPH. During her years as consultant at Interval Research Corporation, she was mis
en scene for their show in London, featuring among others Thomas Dolby. She has spoken on panels including F.A.U.S.T., an
art and technology conference in Toulous, France. She has taught and presented at Pace University, Drew University, University
of Colorado, University of California, and also at Colorado College.
For several years she had been caring full time for Michel Gouilloud, her life partner, who suffered from Lou Gehrig's
disease. He has since passed away. During that time, they shot a documentary called MOVING GRACEFULLY TOWARDS THE EXIT, which
will be completed in early 2007.
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Patrice M Regnier
RUSH DANCE/ARTeam
Selected Credits
CHOREOGRAPHY, MIS EN SCENE, DIRECTION
Academie de Kuntz, Germany
Arie Crown Theater, SIGGRAPH, for the Electronic Theater Show, Chicago
Alice Tully Hall, New York
Aspen Design Conference
Boston Public Theater, Massachusetts
Boston University, Massachusetts
Center for Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Chicago Moving Company, Illinois, commissioned work
Cincinnati Contemporary Dance Theater, Ohio, commissioned work
Cologne Opera House, Germany
Colorado College at Colorado Springs, Colorado, commissioned work
Le Corum, Montpellier, France
Cunningham Studio, New York
The Dance Hall, Ohio
Dance Theater Workshop, New York
The Exchange Theater, New York
Festival Dancers of Detroit, Michigan, commissioned work
Festival Sophia Antipolis, France
Haus im Park, Hamburg, Germany
The Joy of Movement Theater Boston Massachusetts
The Joyce Theater, New York
The Juilliard Theater, New York
La Scala, Italy
L'Espace Marias, Paris, France
Marymount Manhattan Theater, New York
Midland Opera Theater, Texas
Munich Opera House, Germany
New England Conservatory, Boston, Massachusetts
Nonce Dance Ensemble, Michigan, commissioned work
Oddysud Theater, Toulouse, France
Pace Theater, New York
Palace of Fine Arts--SIGGRAPH, California
Piazza del Commune Festival, Italy
St. Etienne Opera House, France
Théâtre Châtelet, Paris, France
Théâtre Rond Point, Paris, France
Terra Firma Theater, New York
Toronto Central Theater, Canada
Under One Roof Theater, New York City "Celestial Alphabet
Event" directed by Adrian Weiss Choreographed
in collaboration with music by Carter Burwell
University of California Long Beach, California
Ville Neuve Les Avignon, France
FILM AND VIDEO
"ARTIST AS A YOUNG MACHINE", documentary, Canada
"DANCE COMPANY", long form documentary, Group W. Production, National Broadcast US
"NEW YORKING", Japanese Film Production, National Broadcast
"AMERICAN CHOREOGRAPHY", French National TV channel 1
"BURLINGTON NOONTIME FESTIVAL", Manhattan cable TV channel J
"ELASTICITY", Virgin Islands Channel 6
"RABL", National broadcast US, Japan
"TESLA", dance direction
"WELCOME HOME", for Dance in Our Time, broadcast, US
"FOCI", FR3, France
"LUNCHTIME", half hour television program in progress
"NAPTIME", half hour television program in progress
"MOVING GRACEFULLY TOWARDS THE EXIT", one-hour documentary in progress
AWARDS
International Choreographer's Competition, double prizewinner, Germany
Clark Center Production Award, New York
Premier Prix, Art de Synthese, PARIS CITÉ, France
EDUCATION
Interlochen Arts Academy
The Juilliard School, BFA
Ms Regnier was creative consultant at Interval Research Corporation in Palo Alto California.
She has written three novels.
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