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Valerie Green originally from Cleveland, Ohio, formed Dance Entropy 1998.

Dance Entropy is a NYC based professional modern dance company that tours and teaches both domestically and abroad.  Dance Entropy supports Valerie Green's vision as Artistic Director where by she creates stage and site-specific work. The company uses creation, performance, and teaching to link dance and the people of a particular community where the work will have the largest impact.  The community we engage shifts, depending on the specific project, and has included under-privileged youth, seniors, those with chronic illnesses, new immigrants, and war torn populations.

In 2005 Ms. Green created a permanent home for the company, Green Space,  in Long Island City, Queens, New York.  Green Space also serves the dance community by providing an affordable and welcoming environment for rehearsals, classes, and performances.

To date Ms. Green has created 21 dances and 6 evening length works.  Her choreography has been presented at festivals and venues throughout New York City including La Mama, Joyce Soho, Judson Church, St. Mark's Church, Chashama, Mulberry St. Theater, Dance Theater Workshop, Tribeca Performing Arts Center, University Settlement, the 92nd St. Y, Hunter College, Context, The Flea, Cunningham Studio, Dixon Place, Hudson Guild Theater, LaGuardia Performing Art Center, Jamaica Performing Arts Center, Queens Theater in the Park, Queens Botanical Garden, and St. Sava Cathedral. Her work has also toured to various venues throughout the US and to less formal spaces such as parks and art galleries.

Internationally she has taught and performed in Canada, France, Italy, Greece, Russia, India, Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia, and Albania.  As a guest artist, Valerie has received commissions from Texas State University, BITEF Theater in Belgrade, Serbia, Theater Alternativa in Tirana, Albania, and LaGuardia Community College.  She has been a guest artist at the University of Las Vegas, Texas State University, LaGuardia Community College, University of Nanterre, France, Florida Gulf Coast University, and at the Faculty of Drama & Art in Belgrade, Serbia and Sarajevo, Bosnia. 

Her projects have received support from the SOROS Foundation, CEC ArtsLink, the American Embassies of both Serbia and Bosnia, The Puffin Foundation, Independence Community Foundation, The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, The New York State Council on the Arts, Dance Theater Workshop, The Queens Community Arts Fund, Queens Independent Artist Initiative, and TransCanada Corp.

Valerie's choreographic work and teaching style is influenced by her formative years working with the Erick Hawkins Dance Company, her certification in Body/Mind Fitness and her undergraduate work at University of Wisconsin-Madison.  

"Articulate, fearless, intelligent dancing"

–Village Voice

"Defying its name, LIC's Valerie Green/ Dance Entropy emerges as cultural anchor" 

- Times Ledger