Studio Stories: Reminiscing on Twin Cities Dance with Danny Buraczeski Season 1 Episode 4

Danny Buraczeski, is Professor Emeritus of Dance at Southern
Methodist  University. At SMU, he taught classic jazz dance
technique, composition and choreography. A classic jazz stylist
for over three decades, his work has traced a clear and deep
investigation of jazz, its sources and its ongoing evolution.
After a career on Broadway appearing in such musicals as MAME
with Angela Lansbury and THE ACT with Liza Minnelli, he founded
the original New York City based JAZZDANCE in 1979. Based in the
Twin Cities of Minneapolis/St. Paul from 1992-2005, the company
performed at leading concert halls and festivals in more than 35
states, in Europe, Russia and the Caribbean.


Buraczeski’s choreography has been commissioned by the Walker Art
Center, the Joyce Theater, the Library of Congress, the American
Dance Festival, the Bates Dance Festival and the Jacob’s Pillow
Dance Festival. Buraczeski was named Artist of the Year in 2000
by the Minneapolis StarTribune. He has received multiple
fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, for whom he
is now a regular panelist/consultant.