Asa Horvitz is a performance-maker and composer whose work moves between choreography, theatre, visual art, and music. His performances construct situations in which audiences encounter paradox, duration, and expanded perceptual fields.
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 and collaboration with the Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio.
His works have been presented internationally at venues including deSingel, BOZAR, Het HEM, Muziekgebouw, SPRING Performing Arts Festival, brutWien / Musiktheatretage Wien, The New Museum, and Public Records, as well as in many underground contexts. He has received research and residency support or commissions 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, Ma Clement, Pavel Zustiak, and Scott Gibbons / Romeo Castellucci.
Horvitz composed the VR opera Songs for a Passerby (dir. Celine Daemen), which received the Lion for Best Immersive Project in the 2023 Venice Biennale. The record GHOST (with Carmen Quill, Wayne Horvitz, and Ariadne Randall) was released in 2025.
Since 2013 he has studied 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 Fulbright, Camargo, and MacDowell fellow. He is a contributing editor at The Anarchist Review of Books.
Photo: Iñigo Viu