a repository for a canary torsi's work: movement-based performance installations within visual and audio environments.
Peter Richards moved to New York City in 1982. He is most known as a videographer for modern dance companies. He also is a dancer, having worked with companies as diverse as CoDanceCo, Richard Bull Dance Theatre, and Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, among others. The video projections for the stage he has created have been shown at Aaron Davis Hall, Dance Theater Workshop, The Kitchen, and Symphony Space, and his video work has also been shown at The Stark Gallery in New York City. His last touring engagement was as a live-cameraman and video technician for White Oak Dance Project’s performance, Past/Forward. In 2004 he was awarded a Fellowship to pursue a Master of Fine Arts degree in the Department of Dance at The Ohio State University, where he taught Digital Video Editing, as well as Ballet for non-majors. He completed his degree in 2007 with a thesis project film, Legacy: Helen Alkire and the Department of Dance at The Ohio State Univeristy. While in Ohio, he started Absolutely Fabulous Dance Company, a weekly modern dance class and performing group of special-needs dancers from ARC-North, Columbus. He has been the resident videographer of The Bates Dance Festival, at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, since 2001