The Debra Weiss Dance Company is known for its vibrant, joyful and entertaining programs that have delighted audiences since the 1980s. Its repertoire uses dance as a medium for storytelling, drawing on literary sources such as world folktales, immigrant diaries, and the writings of Antoine de St. Exupery, author of The Little Prince. The company is also known for living history programs that take audiences back in time to the Victorian Era, colonial times, and the Jazz Age. DWDC has performed at Lincoln Center, National Park Service sites such as the Statue of Liberty and Theodore Roosevelt’s Birthplace, museums, festivals, schools and theatres throughout the greater metro area, in upstate NY and in the Midwest.

Director, choreographer and principal dancer Debra Weiss made her professional debut at 13 as a sprite in New York City Ballet’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. She was in the professional scholarship program at the Joffrey Ballet School and went on to perform for ballet and modern dance companies in New York City. The Debra Weiss Dance Company has received funding from New York State Council on the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, Rockland County, and corporate and private sponsors. In 1994 Debra won a national honor, the Lawrence Epstein Choreography Award. In 2004 she was an artist in residence in Hawaii. In 2006 DWDC produced a CD, Meditations on Nature from Hawaii. In 2009 the company produced a DVD, Metamorphosis: A Yoga Journey through Greece with Debra Weiss. The DVD was shot outdoors on location in Athens, Delphi, and Santorini, Greece. It includes three yoga classes with guided meditations based on stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses.

The company's new products reflect its expansion into the fields of health and wellness. Director Debra Weiss has many years' experience as a yoga instructor and is completing her doctorate in health education at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Relax with our CD, Meditations on Nature from Hawaii.

Get in shape with our DVD, Metamorphosis: A Yoga Journey through Greece with Debra Weiss.

Contact us for more information:

Debra Weiss Dance Company
(845) 353-3860
info@debraweissdance.org