Andy de Groat (November 1947 – January 10, 2019) was an American choreographer best known for his collaborations with interdisciplinary impresario Robert Wilson.
[2][3] Born in November 1947 in Paterson, New Jersey, de Groat grew up in a working-class family with little involvement in the arts.
His father, a truck driver, was unsupportive of his interests, and Mr. de Groat had little contact with his family after leaving high school.
He was studying painting at the School of Visual Arts in New York when he met Mr. Wilson in late 1966 at the Bleecker Street Cinema in Greenwich Village, where de Groat had a part-time job.
[1] De Groat started his career in 1972, where he choreographed the plays Ouverture at that year's Shiraz Arts Festival.