Jordana Che Toback has spent the last several years solidifying her reputation as “Supremely Theatrical” (Village Voice) in NYC and abroad for her choreography and her performances. She was the original movement director/choreographer behind the “art-fashion phenomena” (Vanity Fair) Fischerspooner who have graced all sorts of venues including LA’s new downtown Standard Hotel, the Kunstwerke in Berlin, Pompidou in Paris, Gavin Brown Enterprises, Deitch Gallery, PS 1, Hammerstein Ballroom and Irving Plaza in New York City. During her fertile creative beginnings with this influential group, FS received the Colbert Award for Excellence in Visual Design. More recently, Toback choreographed Obie award winner Cynthia Hopkins’ operetta Accidental Nostalgia which premiered at St. Ann’s Warehouse (NY), On The Boards (Seattle), The Walker Center (Minneapolis), and Philadelphia Live Arts Festival & Philly Fringe. She recently received recognition for her work on Accidental Nostalgia when the Bessie’s honored Hopkins and her creative team with a Creator/Choreographer award in September 2005! This year promises to be chock full of even more creative dance endeavors for Toback starting with the main stage production of The Bacchae at NYU which she originally choreographed for The American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.) in Boston. Throughout the year, Toback will rejoin Hopkins’ creative team to design dances as they write their new show Must Don’t Whip m, Part II to Accidental Nostalgia. On top of all that, Toback will re-mount her original rock-dance-fashion-musical-spectacular POON which played to sold out audiences at downtown’s famed P.S. 122. Her newest investigation into the art of spectacle revisits the exotic explosion that was POON and takes it to a whole new level, including Tom Rossi’s live world orchestra and costumes designed by such influential fashion designers as Zaldy, Elisa Jiminez, Liz Collins, Peter Soronen, Gary Graham and more.

Toback has performed a series of critically lauded solo dance/performance pieces at the Fringe Festival (NYC), LA’s 2100 SQ FT, as well as NYC’s PS122 and HERE, for which she received an NEA grant.

An NYU Tisch School of the Arts alumnus, Toback has worked with such influential Directors as Leslie Dektor, Wayne Wang and Michel Gondry on commercials and films as well as styling and staging movement for photo shoots, album covers and editorials with such lauded photographers as Juergen Teller, Todd Eberle, Antony Nagelmann and fashion pioneer Terry Richardson.

Toback, who hails from Los Angeles, California, began her choreographic tutelage as a teenager under the guidance of the modern dance legend, Bella Lewitzky, and spent seven years after college touring internationally with the Mark Morris Dance Group.