ThingsezIsee'm (TICM) is a non-profit dance/theater company which is a multi-media artistic venture under the direction of David Grenke. Founded in 1994 in New York City, TICM was formed to conceive and perform new works that challenge traditional notions of dance by infusing the methodologies of dance, music, theater and the visual arts.
David Grenke's choreography takes an audience off the beaten path of dance and theater. Grenke's paradox of movement through his acclaimed works such as Degenerate/Art, Humpty-Dumpty, Chasing His Tail, Savage/Love, Tongues, American Pop and more create a heightened awareness of self and artistic expression.
The company has performed internationally throughout Europe and Asia, in addition to New York institutions such as The Joyce Theater, Dance Theater Workshop, PACE Theater, Jacob's Pillow, Riverside Church, and the 92nd Street Harkness Dance Center.
DAVID GRENKE – ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
David Grenke is the founder of ThingsezIsee'm Dance/Theater and a former principal dancer for the Paul Taylor Dance Company. He has also danced for Dennis Wayne's Dancers and The Joffrey Concert Dancers, and he was a founding member of the Armitage Ballet. His choreography has been presented in New York at Lincoln Center, Dance Theatre Workshop's Fresh Track Series, The Guggenheim Museum's Works and Process Series, The Dia Center for the Arts, Pace University and Riverside Church. Outside New York his works have been performed at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, The American Dance Festival, The Cannes International Festival, Kaatsbaan International Festival, and on tours of Russia, Poland, Denmark, Taiwan and Argentina. Support for these tours has come from the U.S. Embassy, Trust for Mutual Understanding, and the Harkness Foundation. Grenke is Associate Professor of Dance at the University of California, Davis.
Mr. Grenke is a recipient of ADF's 1998 Doris Duke Award for new work, the 1997 Scripps/ADF Humphrey-Weidman-Limón Fellow for Choreography, and the Nora Kaye Award for dance. He participated in the American Dance Festival's 1997 International Choreographers Commissioning Program, where he was in residence creating new work on ADF dancers.
For the Paul Taylor Company, his choreography inspired the hit Funny Papers, where his work is represented in the first movement, which was filmed for PBS' "Dance in America" special The Wrecker's Ball. His choreography is also in the repertory of Mark Taylor's Pittsburgh Dance Alloy, The Baltimore School for the Arts and Rutgers University. A former faculty member at Rutgers University, Mr. Grenke is currently on the faculty at the Taylor School and teaches master classes both domestically and internationally. He has been guest faculty at Brigham Young University, SUNY Brockport, Denmark 's Oure Academy, and The Baltimore School for the Arts, among others.
David Grenke's choreography takes an audience off the beaten path of dance and theater. Grenke's paradox of movement through his acclaimed works such as Degenerate/Art, Humpty-Dumpty, Chasing His Tail, Savage/Love, Tongues, American Pop and more create a heightened awareness of self and artistic expression.
The company has performed internationally throughout Europe and Asia, in addition to New York institutions such as The Joyce Theater, Dance Theater Workshop, PACE Theater, Jacob's Pillow, Riverside Church, and the 92nd Street Harkness Dance Center.
DAVID GRENKE – ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
David Grenke is the founder of ThingsezIsee'm Dance/Theater and a former principal dancer for the Paul Taylor Dance Company. He has also danced for Dennis Wayne's Dancers and The Joffrey Concert Dancers, and he was a founding member of the Armitage Ballet. His choreography has been presented in New York at Lincoln Center, Dance Theatre Workshop's Fresh Track Series, The Guggenheim Museum's Works and Process Series, The Dia Center for the Arts, Pace University and Riverside Church. Outside New York his works have been performed at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, The American Dance Festival, The Cannes International Festival, Kaatsbaan International Festival, and on tours of Russia, Poland, Denmark, Taiwan and Argentina. Support for these tours has come from the U.S. Embassy, Trust for Mutual Understanding, and the Harkness Foundation. Grenke is Associate Professor of Dance at the University of California, Davis.
Mr. Grenke is a recipient of ADF's 1998 Doris Duke Award for new work, the 1997 Scripps/ADF Humphrey-Weidman-Limón Fellow for Choreography, and the Nora Kaye Award for dance. He participated in the American Dance Festival's 1997 International Choreographers Commissioning Program, where he was in residence creating new work on ADF dancers.
For the Paul Taylor Company, his choreography inspired the hit Funny Papers, where his work is represented in the first movement, which was filmed for PBS' "Dance in America" special The Wrecker's Ball. His choreography is also in the repertory of Mark Taylor's Pittsburgh Dance Alloy, The Baltimore School for the Arts and Rutgers University. A former faculty member at Rutgers University, Mr. Grenke is currently on the faculty at the Taylor School and teaches master classes both domestically and internationally. He has been guest faculty at Brigham Young University, SUNY Brockport, Denmark 's Oure Academy, and The Baltimore School for the Arts, among others.