April 28, 2011: Jane Comfort began creating her interdisciplinary works in the late 1970's and has since created dozens of original dance theatre works for her highly regarded dance troupe Jane Comfort and Company.  In addition to her company work, she also choreographs for theatre and opera and has worked with such greats as Stephen Sondheim and Michel Legrand.

Comfort earned a B.A. in Painting from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before finding her way to dance. After two years in the Peace Corps in Venezuela, she moved to New York and began studying with Merce Cunningham. She performed with a number of downtown choreographers, including David Gordon, Dana Reitz, Kenneth King, and Jamie Cunningham, before founding her own company in 1978.  In 2010 Comfort was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.

She has collaborated with visual artists, composers, spoken word artists, DJ's, puppeteers, and dancers to create dance theater works that integrate text and movement. Her work has been produced in Europe, South America, and throughout the United States. Comfort has never shied from relevant social issues and her work gives voice to those afflicted by these issues: women, gays and lesbians, the homeless, the disabled, and the abused.

April 28, 2011: Jane Comfort began creating her interdisciplinary works in the late 1970's and has since created dozens of original dance theatre works for her highly regarded dance troupe Jane Comfort and Company.  In addition to her company work, she also choreographs for theatre and opera and has worked with such greats as Stephen Sondheim and Michel Legrand.

Comfort earned a B.A. in Painting from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before finding her way to dance. After two years in the Peace Corps in Venezuela, she moved to New York and began studying with Merce Cunningham. She performed with a number of downtown choreographers, including David Gordon, Dana Reitz, Kenneth King, and Jamie Cunningham, before founding her own company in 1978.  In 2010 Comfort was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.

She has collaborated with visual artists, composers, spoken word artists, DJ's, puppeteers, and dancers to create dance theater works that integrate text and movement. Her work has been produced in Europe, South America, and throughout the United States. Comfort has never shied from relevant social issues and her work gives voice to those afflicted by these issues: women, gays and lesbians, the homeless, the disabled, and the abused.