Jesse Obremski

Choreography

Obremski’s work has been presented internationally and nationally at the Earl Mosley’s Diversity of Dance (2015-2020), Harlem Arts Festival (2014), The Church of Transfiguration (2015-2019), and Broward County Library Theatre (2016), Playscape (2016), Choreographers' Collective (2017), Dixon Place (2018-2019), Battery Dance Festival (2018), Arts on Site (2018), Ailey CitiGroup Theater (2018), STUFFED: Dinner and Dance (2018), HiArtist (2019), The Jamaica Dance Festival (2019), 280 Gibney Center (2018, 2019), Films at Lincoln Center (2019), New Prague Dance Festival (2019), Humanitarian Film Day in Istanbul, Hungary (2019), International World Dance Day UNESCO in Malaysia (IWDD - 2021), DUMBO Dance Festival (2018 - 2021), Detroit Dance City Festival (2020), Diversity of Dance’s Dance is Activism Film Festival (2021), Final Bow for Yellowface’s 10,000 Dreams Festival (2021), Voices of Diaspora at Arts on Site (2021), Little Island (2021), among others.

Obremski also has been commissioned for choreographic work by Diversity of Dance (NY), The University of Wyoming (WY), Sacred Heart University (CT), Zest Collective (NY), NOVA: Movement and Sound (NY), Fineline Theatre Arts (CT), Fort Hamilton Joffrey Academy (NY), MOVE|NYC| (NY), Brigham Young University (UT), Hofstra University (NY), and Phillip’s Academy Andover (MA).

In 2014, Obremski was selected as an "Emerging Choreographer" at Earl Mosley’s Institute of the Arts (CT) for a site-specific work on a soccer field, Obremski’s choreography was selected by The Juilliard School’s Choreographic Honors Concert at The Peter Jay Sharp Theater (2012, 2016), an Obremski’s creation on Brigham Young University, Opportunity, received a DUMBO Dance Festival 2019 Award to tour the work to the Detroit Dance City Festival in August 2020.

Obremski also had the honor to choreograph on Gibney Company for Bloomberg Philanthropies’ 9/11 Memorial in collaboration with Wicked, the musical.

Obremski has collaborated with various composers on new creations such as Rob Rusli, Jarom Hansen, Sylvia Jiang, Trevor Bumgarner, and Jack Frerer.

Obremski is the founder and artistic director of Obremski/Works, a contemporary dance ensemble and community-based in New York City which strives to connect humanity through movement collaboration, creation, and communication. With an emphasis on new creations and dance films, Obremski/Works is an internationally and nationally presented company which presents most of Obremski’s works.

In 2018, Jesse collaborated with film producers/videographers, with The Roof Films, to create No Words, a film which was notably presented by HBO at Lincoln Center as part of The Dance Films Associations Festival in 2018, at Humanitarian Film Day in Istanbul, Hungary in 2019, “Best Choreography" and “Viewer’s Choice” awards at Diversity of Dance’s Dance is Activism Film Festival, among other honors.