Stephan Koplowitz is a director/choreographer/media artist known for his work on the concert stage and for creating original site-specific multi-media works for architecturally significant sites. His site work aims to alter people's perspectives of place, site, and scale, all infused with a sense of the human condition. He is the recipient of an 2004 Alpert Award in Dance, a 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship in Choreography, a 2000 New York Dance and Performance Award, “Bessie” for “Sustained Achievement in Choreography” and six National Endowment for the Arts Choreography Fellowships (1988-'96). In 1994 he was awarded the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Wesleyan University where he earned a degree in music (composition). His studies also include an MFA in choreography from the University Of Utah. He has guest taught at universities and communities across the country and while living in New York City, he directed the Dance Program at the Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn Heights where he taught since 1983.

Since 1984 he has created 53 works (37 commissions) for both sites and the concert stage and recently film. His site works have been seen throughout the United States and Europe in such venues as New York's Bryant Park (the Internet-inspired “Webbed Feats”), the Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, in Chicago, Philadelphia and Washington D.C., two London sites commissioned by the Dance Umbrella Festival: the reopened British Library ('98), and the Natural History Museum ('96). In 1999, Mr. Koplowitz premiered “Kohler Korper” (Coal Bodies), at the Kokerei Factory in Essen, Germany and later that year premiered a new version of “Fenestrations”, a critically acclaimed work for the windows of Grand Central Terminal, NYC first seen in 1987. His choreography and company, Stephan Koplowitz & Company (Kop Art, Inc.) have been produced by Dance Theater Workshop (eight separate seasons), Dancing in Center, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, the Bates Dance Festival, London's Dance Umbrella Festival (two commissions). Dance Place of Washington D.C. (three seasons), and many other venues. In June of 2004, he premiered his “Grand Step Project: Flight” produced by Dancing in Brooklyn. His latest work, “Revealed” is a site-adaptive installation/performance involving a room size camera obscura and was installed in Battery Park City, presented by Arts & Events at the Winter Garden and the River to River Festival, May 22-June 25, 2006. “Revealed” also generated a portfolio of 22 master images and will have its next installation/exhibition at MASS MoCA in early summer 2007.

Koplowitz has been an Artist-in-Residence and founding member of Dance Theater Workshop's community based Public Imaginations Program (1993) and founded the Creative Club House , an arts mentoring program for at-risk urban youth. In 2003 & 2004 he was the teaching Mentor as part of the Kitchen's Summer Institute's “New Practices in Performance and Technology”. He has twice been awarded a fellowship to work in Dance Theater Workshop's new Artist Resource and Media Laboratory (2003 & 2004) along with being one of three curators of DTW's new dance video series “Captured”. In 2002, Koplowitz wrote and directed his first short film, a site-specific narrative, “Catching the 5:23” featuring Grand Central Terminal and premiered at 2002 Hampton International Film Festival. A sequel, “Catching the Game” was filmed in 2003 with the cooperation of the NY Mets at Shea Staduim. In 2005, he created two music videos for the music group 46bliss.