Site-Specific Dances, led by Michael Spencer Phillips and Dino Kiratzidis, is a new type of interdisciplinary performing arts collective of artists, choreographers, musicians and designers, that activates sites with performances featuring local community members. Our work is at the intersection of performance and place and each project emerges from its site. Set to original music by living composers, the performances live on as immersive video installations, shown with live musicians and/or live dance. Site-Specific Dances began its location-based work during the pandemic and launched this year with a series of sold out media-performances at the Paul Taylor Dance Studios in New York City . 

S-SD’s performance works are inspired by the theatricality of the natural world, the growing awareness of pressing environmental issues including climate change and the loss of ecosystems, and the desire to push the limits of interdisciplinary performance. The projects hope to foster a diverse and ever-expanding network of interdisciplinary collaborators around the world.