Skinner Releasing Technique (SRT)

...lets the student practice letting go of habitual holding patterns and habitual ways of thinking in order to find energy and power and awaken creativity and spontaneity. Class includes Guided Imagery that taps into imagination while working on technical aspects of moving, in groups and solo, as well as studies and exercises with partners. Movement unfolds, sometimes in quiet, gentle ways, sometimes in surprising and inventive ways. Integration of the technical with the creative is a unique aspect of the Skinner approach. Please come prepared with a notebook to write daily.


DD Dorvillier
DD Dorvillier has created experimental and multi-media performances in New York City since 1989, developing works for dance/theater venues like The Kitchen, PS122, and Danspace Project, as well as for nightclubs, galleries and site-specific environments. She has collaborated and worked with a variety of artists including: Jennifer Monson, Jennifer Lacey, Yvonne Meier, Sarah Michelson, Karen Finley and many others. Since 1996 she has collaborated extensively with director/playwright, Peter Jacobs, with whom she formed human future dance corps. She has been a certified teacher of Skinner Releasing Technique since 1995, teaching workshops in SRT, improvisation and composition worldwide. She has been Artist in Residence at Movement Research as well as guest co-editor of its Performance Journal, the "Release" double issue, and co-curator of the Movement Research Festival 2004 and 2005. In 2000 she received a NYFA Choreography Fellowship, and in 2003 she was awarded, along with composer David Kean, two Bessies (DTW Dance & Performance Awards for Choreography and Soundscore of Dressed for Floating.

DD Dorvillier will also perform at ImPulsTanz 2006 with “No Change or Freedom is a psycho-kinetic skill” on August 12 at the Arsenal.