Tamar Rogoff is a choreographer and filmmaker who explores the outer limits of how people negotiate extreme circumstances. As artistic director of Tamar Rogoff Performance Projects, Rogoff creates inclusive, multidisciplinary, multigenerational, and site-specific performance and film as well as proscenium performance. Rogoff’s subject matter is deeply personal and often autobiographical, but in the vast diversity of her casting, it finds its universality. Rogoff has been presented both nationally and internationally, at the Kennedy Center, the Pompidou Center and the Estonian National Opera, and in venues as accessible as sidewalks and rooftops. The surprising juxtaposition of performers who are new to the stage and seasoned professionals taps into Rogoff’s wish--to use the unexpected to spark curiosity and empathy. Rogoff’s choreography has been seen at P.S. 122, St. Mark’s Church, LaMama ETC, Dance Theater Workshop, Lincoln Center Out of Doors, and in venues worldwide. Her latest piece Drop Dead… Gorgeous , was presented at La Mama in the Fall of 2025.

Rogoff’s documentary Summer in Ivye (2001) screened at The Jewish Film Festival at Lincoln Center and The Hamptons Film Festival. She was later a Sundance Institute Documentary Film Fellow where she worked with Daisy Wright on the award-winning feature documentary Enter the Faun (2015), based on an earlier piece of choreography, Diagnosis of a Faun (2009). In the film, Rogoff’s lifelong method, known as Body Scripting, explores release through unorthodox body practices to address protagonist Mozgala’s cerebral palsy. Enter the Faun toured festivals globally–The Sarasota Film Festival, the Margaret Mead Film Festival, Dance on Camera, ReelAbilities Film Festival, and the Extraordinary Film Festival in Belgium. It was broadcast on Belgium TV and on PBS America Reframed in 2018 and 2022. Rogoff’s documentary about her dancers during lockdown, A Plague on All Our Houses (2021), screened at NYC Independent and Manhattan Film Festival (both June 2021). Rogoff’s first short, Wonder About Merri, was at Dance on Camera (2019) and won the Most Daring Short at Dare to Dance in Public Film Festival (2019). During Covid she produced a dance-narrative short, The Circles of Avenue C in her Lower East side neighborhood. She is the founder of the Solar Powered Dance Festival at Solar One.

Rogoff works as a movement coach to actors, including Claire Danes for her Emmy award winning role in Temple Grandin (2010). She was an adjunct teacher at NYU’s Experimental Theater Wing (1995-2010), Her experiential anatomy dance lab at LaMama is ongoing.

Rogoff is a recipient of grants from the NEA, NYFA, the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, Trust for Mutual Understanding, Association of Performing Arts Presenters and the Rockefeller MAP Grant. She is also a Guggenheim fellow.

Rogoff’s choreography will be seen in the soon to be released feature film Run Amok.

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