“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