Daniel Gwirtzman--producer, educator, filmmaker and performer--celebrates thirty years as a New York City choreographer and company director. Collaborations that blend genres and disciplines, take risks, involve community, and celebrate humanity are areas of focus. He has been awarded commissions, residencies, and fellowships nationally and abroad. “Mr. Gwirtzman does know that in dance less can be more…he can evoke strong feelings with a few gestures” writes The New York Times. The New Yorker describes him as “a choreographer of high spirits and skill," and The Village Voice calls him “an abundantly inventive artist with a subtle defiance of gender roles.” 

Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company, a NYC-based nonprofit teaching and performing organization is known for its optimistic ethos and the repertory for its invention, humor, musicality, stylistic diversity, charismatic performances, and accessibility. Dance With Us, a free online educational resource produced by the organization, is designed to demystify choreography and increase comfort viewing and speaking about dance. Highlights include performances at Jacob’s Pillow, The Kennedy Center, Battery Dance Festival, Fire Island Dance Festival, Bryant Park, La MaMa, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and Lincoln Center. He has been awarded commissions, residencies and fellowships from institutions including the American Dance Festival, the Joyce Theater Foundation, The Yard, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Raumars (Finland), Sacatar Foundation (Brazil), Sfakiotes Residency (Greece) Maison Dora Maar (France), Centro Negra (Spain), Gdański Festiwal Tanca (Poland), The Studios of Key West, CUNY Kinsgborough Community College, and Ucross (Wyoming). 

DGDC’s fifteenth anniversary was celebrated with the evening-length premiere of The Oracle at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s BAM Fisher. Arts/ATL described its “mathematical elegance” and “joyful physicality...a vision that vibrated on a frequency of harmony and brilliance.” Reviewing the twentieth anniversary season Intersections at Manhattan’s 92nd Street Y, OnStageBlog writes: “Provocative, whimsical, and ethereal, the Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company defies expectations of postmodern dance and soars, unafraid to take risks and dazzle with unflinching honesty.” Recent productions include the dance-theater duet e-Motion, co-created with playwright Saviana Stanescu, delving into the concerns of AI, which Culturebot reviewed at NYC’s La MaMa Moves Festival as “profoundly chilling,” noting Daniel’s performance as “masterful” (2025); and Flashpoint, an ensemble dance developed at the American Dance Festival (2024) exploring the contours of relationships, the push and pull of harmony and strife within our lives, and the lines separating intimacy from violence

Daniel is an Associate Professor of Dance at Ithaca College’s School of Music, Theatre, and Dance.