Dan Safer comes from the wild suburbs of New Jersey. He works as a artistic director and choreographer for the dance company Witness Relocation. His work has been presented in various locations, including Off-Broadway, La MaMa, Dance Theater Workshop The Ontological Theater, Patravadi Theatre (Bangkok), Theater Krudttonden (Denmark), the CUNY Prelude Festival, Dixon Place, Danspace Project; he has choreographed operas, rock videos and fashion shows, and wrote a seven episode serial play with David Lindsay-Abaire. He founded and directed the Bangkok Performance Boot Camp, is faculty at NYU, and teaches workshops across the USA and internationally. Artforum Magazine called him "pure expressionistic danger". He used to be a go-go dancer, and once choreographed the Queen of Thailands Birthday Party.