DD DORVILLIER (US)

is a choreographer, performer, and teacher from New York City. Her work has been shown in venues such as The Kitchen, PS122, Danspace Project and Dance Theater Workshop in NYC, as well as internationally in Australia, Spain, France, Austria, Japan, Croatia, Holland and Russia. She has been teaching worldwide since 1995, both the Skinner Releasing Technique as well her own approach to choreography and physical training. In 2008 she was the Artistic Mentor of the DanceWeb Europe Scholarship Program. She is a double Bessie Award winner (Dressed for Floating, 2002), and a 2007 recipient of the prestigious Foundation for Contemporary Arts Fellowship. She has worked for or collaborated with Jennifer Monson, Jennifer Lacey, Sarah Michelson, Peter Jacobs, Yvonne Meier, Karen Finley, Alain Buffard, Jan Ritsema, and Pavol Lishka/Kelly Copper, among others. In 2008-09 she will perform in Parades and Changes, replays, a reconstruction of Anna Halprin’s seminal Parades and Changes (1965), initiated by choreographer Anne Collod in collaboration with Anna Halprin, as well as performing in Jennifer Lacey and Nadia Lauro’s Les Asistantes.