A Choreographer And Company Leader Who’s Actually Low-Key? Meet Tere O’Connor

“In contrast to the outsize personalities who dominate much of modern dance’s history, he is a thoroughly 21st-century leader, with a belief that bigger is usually worse when it comes to dance (work on grand stages, he has said, ‘looks like a bunch of No. 2 pencils in an earthquake’) and little interest in lending his name to a specific style or ideology.”