Keith Hennessy

Keith Hennessy is an award-winning performer, choreographer, teacher and organizer.
He was born in Canada, lives in San Francisco and tours internationally. His interdisciplinary research engages improvisation, spectacle, ritual and public action as tools for investigating and re-visioning political realities.

Hennessy directs Circo Zero, a contemporary circus, in intimate spectacles for stage and street.
He was a member of the collaborative performance companies: Contraband (85-94), CORE (95-98), and Cahin-caha, cirque bâtard (98-02). His work is featured in several books and documentaries, including How To Make Dances in an Epidemic (David Gere, University of Wisconsin: 2004), Gay Ideas (Richard Mohr, Beacon: 1992), and Dancers in Exile (RAPT Productions, 2000).
Hennessy is a co-founder of 848 Community Space/CounterPULSE a thriving performance and culture space in San Francisco.

Recent awards include a Goldie (2007) and the Alpert/MacDowell Fellowship in Dance (2005). Recent commissions include Les Subsistances, Lyon (Homeless USA, 2005), Les Laboratoires, Paris (American Tweaker, 2006), FUSED (French-US Exchange in Dance), Centre Chorégraphique National, Belfort (Sol niger, 2007), Arsenic, Lausanne (Fat Crotch, 2008), and Lower Left Performance Co, San Diego (Gather, 2005).
Keith's 2005-08 teaching includes University of San Francisco, New College of California, JFK University, UC Davis, dance and improvisation festivals in Budapest, Seattle, Stolzenhagen (Germany), Orvieto (Italy), Moab, Vienna/imPulsTanz, Moscow/TSEH, the Aerial Dance Festival (Boulder), and grass-roots workshops in Arcata, Chicago, Toronto, Victoria BC, Madison, and Earthdance (Northampton MA).

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