Shapiro and Smith

Danial Shapiro and Joanie Smith founded Shapiro & Smith Dance in 1985 after working in the companies of Murray Louis and Alwin Nikolais. Shapiro & Smith Dance has performed across the United States, Europe, Asia, and Canada, presented by major festivals and venues including The Joyce Theater, Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Dance Theater Workshop (now New York Live Arts), St. Mark’s Danspace Project, PS 122, Festival di Milano, Teatro de Danza in Mexico City, Recklinghausen RuhrFestSpiele, and the Korean International Festival. Since Shapiro’s death in 2006, Smith has continued as sole artistic director of Shapiro & Smith Dance. She also continues to teach at the University of Minnesota as a faculty member of the Department of Theater Arts and Dance.