Jody Oberfelder is a director, choreographer, and filmmaker. She creates art which aims to illuminate life. Whether stage, film, site or installation, her works expand how one experiences dance. Her works often provide audiences with experiences of intimate engagement whether in a vast space or guiding journeys through theatrical environs, historical habitats, bridges, train stations, or ordinary places. Upcoming projects include a site specific piece called Walking to Present which will be performed in April at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and in June, a commission from the Brooklyn Public Library. Recent projects include Life Traveler: Philly Fringe Festival (October 14, 2021) Tsisit Fringe Festival (London October 24, 2021) Rube G. in progress at Roulette October 14, 2021. Amphitheater, as site specific piece to “Save the Park” at the East River Park Amphitheater (June 21 ,2021) Monument, a site-specific piece for Trolley Dances, commissioned by the San Diego Dance Theatre, June 4,5, 2021. Screen. Dance. Window. (August 5, 2020) for the 4th Congress of Psychogeography, Object Place Walking, presented at the Walking's New Movements Conference (November 2-3) Plymouth, UK) Madame Ovary, May 15-19th, 2019 at the Flea Theater, On the Move Shortly, performed at St. Pancras Station in London, Object Place Walking, performed at the Walking New Movements Conference in Plymouth UK (November 1,-2 2021, Things, a collaboration with the Brisbane, Australian quintet Topology, Kurt Weill’s Zaubernacht, a commission by the Kurt Weill Foundation, and Dido & Aeneas. She had been invited to DANCE Munich Festival May 2021 to premiere new piece: Walking to Present: in addition to a seven-person version of Life Traveler. The commissions are postponed to their next biennial festival in 2023. Oberfelder created a body trilogy: 4Chambers, (2013-14) a piece about the heart, was performed in an historic home on Governors Island and in a former hospital and The Brain Piece (2015-18) a choreographed experience: a union of movement, film, neuroscience, and sound, giving audiences an interactive opportunity to engage with their minds in motion, performed at New York Live Arts, Dance Space (Washington DC) and the International Nanotechnology Summit (Braga, Portugal, and Madame Ovary, The Flea Theater NYC. and Castle Walk, a danced-through tour of a Baroque Palace in Portugal (Fall 2017) was created in collaboration with Arte Total in Braga, Portugal. Oberfelder has performed in the works of Asad Raza (Whitney Biennial 2017), Steve Paxton (MoMA 2012) and Simone Forti (MoMA: Judson Church: The Work is Never Done) 2018-2019. She dance with Phyllis Lamhut in the late 70s, and Pooh Kaye, Ping Chong, Meredith Monk and Sally Silvers in 80s She has been a guest artist and taught master classes at Plymouth University, Beijing Dance Academy, Bryn Mawr University, Temple, University, University of Hawaii, New York University, Middlebury College, Wayne State University, Moravian College, Alfred University, and a teaching artist for Lincoln Center Institute, The Orchestra of St. Luke’s and The Joyce Theater.