Moving with Momentum
Beware: we will have fun!

Material will range in styles from release-based work connecting with the floor to an eclectic standing highly technical modern class. Concepts such as a weighted and grounded approach to movement, harnessing the body's momentum and force, varying approaches to Contact Improvisation and Partnering, emphasis on intent and focus, and compositional choices through improvisation may be included. BEWARE: We will have fun!


Movements to live by Kids
sensation of trust and experimentation!

David Dorfman will create a safe environment in which to learn and create new movements. The emphasis will be on creating a community through movement, the social aspects of dancing, and achieving personal expression through movement. Movements from everyday life will be as welcome as dance steps from a myriad of cultures and sources. Through the collaborative creative process, individuals will gain the experience of team-building, esteem-building, and stress reduction - all from the practice of building dances together. An introduction to the principles of weight-sharing and contact improvisation will enhance the sense of trust and experimentation. We will have fun.





Movement To Live By GoldenAge
sense of trust and experimentation

David Dorfman will create a safe environment in which to learn and create new movements. The emphasis will be on creating a community through movement, the social aspects of dancing, and achieving personal expression through movement. Movements from everyday life will be as welcome as dance steps from a myriad of cultures and sources. Through the collaborative creative process, individuals will gain the experience of team-building, esteem-building, and stress reduction - all from the practice of building dances together. An introduction to the principles of weight-sharing and contact improvisation will enhance the sense of trust and experimentation. We will have fun.




Choreography as social and personal commentary
Composition and repertory

The emphasis in this workshop will be on personal expression through creation. By working in class on both solo and group projects, we will find compositional means for exploring areas about which we are passionate. As clarity is established, the interface between public and private, political and personal, in these dances and, by extension, a performance, will be brought to light. Sections of repertory works will be taught as both aids in broadening performing range, and as exposure to and material for discussing different types of choreographic processes. Another area of concentration will be text, both existing and original, as it relates to the commentary of choreography.


David Dorfman
David Dorfman, William Meredith Professor of Dance and Chair at Connecticut College, received a Guggenheim fellowship in 2005 to continue his research and choreography in the topics of power and powerlessness, including activism, dissidence and underground movements. His research culminated in underground, performed by David Dorfman Dance and 25 additional dancers, which had its world premiere at the ADF in June 2006, had its NYC premiere at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival in Nov. 2006 to conclude DDD’s 20th Anniversary season and continues to tour internationally. Dorfman has received 4 fellowships from the NEA, 3 New York Foundation for the Arts fellowships, an American Choreographer’s Award, the first Paul Taylor Fellowship from The Yard, a 1996 “Bessie” for his community-based dance Familiar Movements/The Family Project, a 2003 Barrymore Award for best choreography for the original musical Green Violin - Prince Music Theater in Philadelphia, and recently received the Mid-Career Award from the Martha Hill Fund for Dance. Disavowal, DDD’s newest creation, inspired by the legend of John Brown/radical abolitionist, will be shown as a work-in-progress during Connecticut College’s Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity’s Race, Space and Memory Symposium April 18th, and as a completed evening at CC Oct. 25th before beginning it’s national tour.