Van Stiefel

Department of Music
vstiefel@princeton.edu

Van Stiefel is has completed a project that investigates the nature of modern dance/music collaboration. By interviewing performers, choreographers and composers at the Bates Dance Festival, Stiefel examined how organizational factors (funding, administration, presentation venues, etc.) influence the nature of collaboration between these two art forms. His dissertation, focused on how space is defined, negotiated and used by choreographers, dancers, composers and musicians in modern dance.