Dean Moss / Gametophyte
Dean Moss is an interdisciplinary choreographer and video artist whose practice investigates cultural fluidity and the sense of becoming. He directs a project based production company called Gametophyte Inc. based in Brooklyn. Its work has been presented and commissioned by New York Museum of Modern Art; The Whitney Museum of American Art; The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art; Anthology Film Archives; The Seoul International Dance Festival, South Korea; and The Kitchen, NYC, among many others.
Moss arrived in New York in 1979 on a ballet scholarship with the Dance Theater of Harlem. He studied directly under Martha Graham, toured with the Louis Falco Dance Company, and performed in the Paris company of Broadway’s revival West Side Story, all in the early 1980’s. Subsequently he danced ten years (1983-93) with the post-modern choreographer David Gordon in The Pick-up Performance Company. In 1999-2004 Moss was the Curator of Dance and Performance at The Kitchen Center for Experimental Art.
Moss is an Asian Cultural Council Fellow; a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Resident; the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in Choreography; the Doris Duke Impact Award in Theatre; a Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Artists Grant; plus Fellowships in both Choreography and Multidisciplinary Works from the New York Foundation for the Arts. He was awarded a New York Dance and Performance “Bessie Award” for his 1999 performance work Spooky action at a distance. His most recent experimental film, surface tension (2024), is an Official Selection of the 2025 Video Art and Experimental Film Festival in NYC. He is currently presenting the commissioned revival and European premiere of his 2005 performance work, figures on a field for Tanzquartier Wien, in Vienna, October 23-25, 2025.
