Creativ Process - Shit Happens

Thinking, observing, moving, and talking will be the activities of this workshop. Rather than offering a compositional methodology for dancemaking, we explore the possibility that nothing has to be done in order for something to be happening. We will practice using what is there, you, others, the space, its objects, our physicalities, intelligences, and intensities. Our collective work will orbit around the question of how ideas/actions/perceptions grow and relate in an unpredictable process of construction. If you have material you are working on, you can bring it and see what happens to it in the group context.


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.