About Me

DAN FROOT (performance artist, writer, composer, dancer, saxophonist) received a New York Dance & Performance Award (a.k.a. BESSIE) for the creation of his music/theater work SEVENTEEN KILOS OF GARLIC, and a City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Fellowship ( C.O.L.A.) for the creation of his gangster-vaudeville, SHLAMMER. Dan's music concerts, theater pieces, and performance events have been presented across the U.S. and overseas by leading art centers. He has composed numerous scores for dance and theater companies, has taught performance workshops around the country, has created an ongoing series of collaborative duets (five, to date) with choreographer David Dorfman, and has danced, acted and played music nationally and internationally with the likes of Victoria Marks, Ralph Lemon, Yoshiko Chuma & The School of Hard Knocks, Mabou Mines, David Cale, Ping Chong & Co., Dan Hurlin, and the legendary Jeff Weiss. From 1992-1996 he was the Director of the Bennington July Program, an intensive academic and cultural enrichment experience for teens at Bennington College, and was a member of the Program's drama faculty 1984-92. Currently Dan teaches at UCLA''s Department of World Arts and Cultures while he continues to create and tour his work. He was chosen to be a roster artist on the recently gutted California Arts Council's Performing Arts Touring and Presenting Program for 2004-2006. Dan's work has received major support from The National Endowment for the Arts, The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, The City of West Hollywood, AEPOCH, Foundation, Jerome Foundation, Meet The Composer, National Foundation for Jewish Culture, The Durfee Foundation, The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, The New York State Council on the Arts, The Vermont Community Arts Foundation, The New England Foundation for the Arts, The Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, and Reader's Digest.