Asa Horvitz is a director, choreographer, and composer/musician who creates multidisciplinary performances. These works are often developed over many years and take shape across multiple formats (books, records, websites, installations).
Starting from rhythm and the re-organization of time and space, he layers archival and original materials (dance forms, images, text, music and sound) into complex situations that unfold over long durations, opening zones where spectators slip into unexpected ways of being with themselves and others.
Raised in a family of musicians in rural Northern California, Horvitz began making experimental performances as a teenager and later studied music composition with Alvin Lucier and Anthony Braxton at Wesleyan University. Formative experiences included years in the New York City DIY scene, a Fulbright scholarship in Warsaw, and collaboration with the Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio.
His works have been presented internationally at venues such as deSingel, BOZAR, Het HEM, Het Muziekgebouw, SPRING Performing Arts Festival, brutWien / Musiktheatretage Wien, The New Museum, Public Records, and in many underground contexts.
He has received research or residency support from Muzeum Susch, ImPulsTanz, CAMPUS / Municipal Theatre of Porto, KWP Pianofabriek, Goethe Institut Hong Kong, and Ahas Kusa (Sri Lanka). Collaborations include Carmen Quill, Wayne Horvitz, Anna Webber, Kalup Linzy, Pavel Zustiak, and Scott Gibbons / Romeo Castellucci.
In 2023, Horvitz composed the VR opera Songs For A Passerby (dir. Celine Daemen), which received the Lion for Best Immersive Project in the Venice Biennale and toured internationally. The record GHOST (with Carmen Quill, Wayne Horvitz, and Ariadne Randall) was released in 2025. His work has been featured on WNYC/NPR, the BBC, the journal MASKA, and in many other publications.
Since 2013 he has studied psychoanalysis and various methods of working with dreams and inner images, and is a certified practitioner of Embodied Imagination. He graduated from DAS Theatre in Amsterdam in 2021, and is a former Camargo and MacDowell fellow. He is a contributing editor at The Anarchist Review of Books.
Photo: Iñigo Viu