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Asa Horvitz is a performance maker, composer/musician, and choreographer from the United States. He graduated from DAS Theatre in 2021. He uses choreographic strategies to combine experimental music with elements of dance, theatre, and visual art, creating performances in which the audience, confronted by paradox, begins to imagine for themselves. Recent works have been presented by Het HEM, Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ, SPRING Performing Arts Festival, Frascati, de School (Netherlands), deSingel (Belgium), MUSIKTHEATERTAGE WIEN/brut Wien (Austria), Goethe Institut Hong Kong, The New Museum, Microscope Gallery, The Brick, Public Records, La MaMa ETC (New York), Living Arts (Tulsa, U.S.A.), CounterPULSE (California, U.S.A.), Labirynt Gallery Lublin, and many other cultural institutions and underground contexts.
Asa originally studied composition with Alvin Lucier and Anthony Braxton, as well as philosophy, dance, and performance theory. He gained further experience in the performing arts through collaborations with artists including Scott Gibbons / Romeo Castellucci, Ang Gey Pin, and Lukasz Korczak. In 2023, Asa composed the VR opera SONGS FOR A PASSERBY, which won the Lion for Immersive Projects in Venice and toured extensively in Europe, North America, and Asia. His record GHOST (music from the performance with Carmen Quill, Wayne Asa, and Ariadne Randall) was released in January 2025 to critical acclaim.
He is on the editorial board of the Anarchist Review of Books, for which he writes an ongoing column. He has studied, practiced, and taught various ways of working with dreams and inner images since 2013 (with Gary F. Brown, Mala Kline, etc.), and since 2022 has studied Embodied Imagination. Asa has developed methods of working with performers on dreams, dances, and music in various contexts, including artistic exchanges in Indonesia, South India, and Malaysia.
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