Curated by Judy Hussie-Taylor and Jenn Joy, Conversations Without Walls began as a series of dialogues on contemporary choreographic practice. Mutual Seductions, held on November 5, 2011, specifically addressed the relationship between dance and visual art. Participants included Connie Butler,… Read more
The following excerpt is from a chapter by Judy Hussie-Taylor, Danspace Project Executive Director and Chief Curator, to be included in a forthcoming anthology Curating Live Arts: Global Perspectives, Envisioning Theory and Practice in Performance (working title) edited by Dena Davida, Jane Gabriels, Véronique… 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
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
10.22.2010 DD Dorvillier/human future dance corps, No Change or “freedom is a psycho-kinetic skill” (2005) “…this state of insecurity is not natural but constructed—a political condition produced by a power on whose favor we depend and which we can only petition. To… Read more