David Dorfman Dance
Since its founding in 1985, David Dorfman Dance has performed extensively in New York City and throughout North and South America, Great Britain, and Europe. David Dorfman and the company’s dancers and artistic collaborators have been honored with eight New York Dance and Performance ("Bessie") Awards.
Current DDD Company Members Are:
David Dorfman, Jen Nugent, Joe Poulson, Heather McArdle, Francis Stansky, Molly Poerstel, Whitney Tucker, Karl Rogers, Lindsay Ashmun, and Patrick Ferreri
The company's newest work, underground, inspired by a recent documentary on the Weathermen, premiered at the American Dance Festival in June 2006 and, following presentations at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco and at Connecticut College, is receiving its New York premiere during this current engagement at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Other recent creative projects include Older Testaments, to music by composer/trumpeter Frank London of The Klezmatics, Lightbulb Theory and Impending Joy, which premiered in March 2004 at The Duke on 42nd Street Theater; See Level, the company's first evening-length work, presented at The Kitchen in 2003; To Lie Tenderly and Subverse at BAM Next Wave in Fall 2000; and A Cure for Gravity, set to music by popular composer and recording artist Joe Jackson.
Community-based projects play an important role in the life of the company. In Out of Season (The Athletes Project) and Familiar Movements (The Family Project), the members of the company rehearse and perform with groups of volunteer athletes or family members selected in the communities to which the company tours. In No Roles Barred, David Dorfman examines the personal roles assumed, formed and interwoven in our modern social construct. This project has been wildly successful with groups ranging from corporate executives and “at-risk†youths to college administrators, doctors, carpenters and social dance enthusiasts. No Roles Barred continues to advance David Dorfman’s goal to “get the whole world dancing.†The company’s three community projects have been presented over 30 times in 18 states and two foreign countries.
The company is marking its 20th anniversary season and the start of its third decade of performing during 2005 and 2006, an 18-month celebration of performances and residencies in New York, Massachusetts, Maine, New Jersey, Connecticut, California, Illinois and North Carolina.
Upcoming Performances and Appearances
July 20 - 21 Bates Dance Festival