…I feel like I don’t really know what it is to curate. It’s an exercise or a practice that’s parallel to how I think about creating performances or events or choreography, so perhaps it’s curation as choreography, or how I… Read more
“I don’t think there’s any way of making dance anything but dance. Dance is a time machine. I want to touch the French soldier’s calves dancing the gavotte. I want to sniff the hair of the Haitian dancer at the… Read more
DD Dorvillier: A catalogue of steps from Danspace Project on Vimeo. A short video/tribute to DD Dorvillier’s A catalogue of steps. Huge thanks to Nicole Rainteau for making this fantastic video! The final visit to A catalogue of steps takes… Read more
“I think of DD’s dances as invitations. We, the audience and the performers, discover methods to see the world with the potential to change our relationships with and within it. It is slippery and sometimes hazy, as is necessary. The… Read more
Ishmael Houston-Jones poses with his Diary of an Image catalogue, which features his DDD: a (very) subjective history. A fellow Gemini, Ishmael met DD Dorvillier when she took his workshop, The Politics of Dancing, as an undergrad at Bennington College.… Read more
2000 · the wrestling mask is also a flower “Dorvillier transforms herself—through stunning costumes constructed of lace, leather, lengths of red satin, and other seductive materials—into a woman, probably a professional in the sex trade, who both asserts her strength (in… Read more
“The older works are permanently situated in my past from where they continue to teach me things and remain intact like silly putty, like history. The fragments allow me to get closer to a mysterious and slippery purpose of choreography.… Read more
On Saturday, May 17, 2014, Danspace Project Executive Director Judy Hussie-Taylor was honored with the insignia of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by Antonin Baudry, Cultural Counselor of the French Embassy for her significant contributions to the arts.… Read more
Download a PDF of the calendar of events for PLATFORM 2014: Diary of an Image by DD Dorvillier! Dorvillier is a two-time Bessie Award-winning choreographer and recipient of the 2013 Doris Duke Performing Artist Award for her groundbreaking work over the past two… Read more
First off, I would like unequivocally and with utmost affection to assert that Steve Paxton is a Grand Old Man of post-modern dance. With that said and without offering definitive proof, let me proceed by giving an example of… Read more