Charles Dennis is an interdisciplinary artist/producer, choreographer, performance artist, video director/cameraman/editor and teacher. He is the director of Charles Dennis Productions – a digital media production company that offers video production and post-production services to both corporate and not-for-profit clients. Dennis began his career as a dancer/performer with director Robert Wilson’s theater company, The Byrd Hoffman School of Byrds, in 1971. He toured extensively with the group appearing in many of the group’s landmark works including the original production of “Einstein On The Beach” (1976). In 1979 Dennis co-founded Performance Space 122, one of this country’s most active presenters of new dance and performance art, and contributed greatly to its development. Since 1980 he has created a series of critically acclaimed interdisciplinary solos and group, dance/ performance/video works. Dennis’ performance work has been described by Dancemagazine as “physical theater”.  His 1996 work “Full House” toured in this country in the form of community-specific productions featuring local participants and performers. In the 90’s Dennis’ turned to addressing issues of identity in a mediated world with a series of critically acclaimed solo dance/video works. “Mr. Remote” (2000), still being performed, has received numerous acclaims…“the work has the dynamic energy of  dance itself, a rare thing in videodance and Mr. Dennis plays with real, imagined and video time with quietly dazzling wit and comfortable humanity.”(The New York Times). Dennis received a 2003 Fellowship in Performance/Interdisciplinary Art from the New York Foundation for the Arts. He has also received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art. In 1999 he was the recipient of a UCLA National Dance Media Fellowship award. In 2004 Charles Dennis premiered “Homecoming – Celebrating 20 Years of Dance at P.S. 122”, a documentary that chronicles the origins of the space and showcases 10 leading choreographers (Ron Brown, Ann Carlson, Yoshiko Chuma, Dancenoise, Mark Dendy, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Jennifer Monson, Charles Moulton, Sally Silvers and Doug Varone) whose careers were launched at P.S. 122. “Homecoming” was featured at the 2004 American Dance Festival.

Dennis is also the director and producer of “Alive & Kicking – New Directions  in Dance & Performance”, a video series which profiles cutting edge dance and performance artists that is being distributed to educational institutions worldwide. More than 90 programs have been produced to date.