Touch Move Talk Write
Practice for choreographers, dancers, and other people.

These basic components, whether used consciously or not, can be detected, at least always two of them, if not all four, in just about every dance or choreography related workshop one might encounter. This workshop focuses on all four very directly, in a stripped down, almost innocent fashion. We will apply extremely different durations for each practical element daily, and place the practices in different sequential relationships. The aim is to proliferate unexpected relationships between the different components. How does touch affect writing for instance? Choreogrpahic or dancerly?

We will study and refine our sense of the specific properties that differentiate each practice (touching, moving, talking, writing) without much attention to what might typically be its correct usage and context. From these elements we can invent our own practice, rigorous and/or playful and/or joyful and/or serious and/or fun...


DD Dorvillier
DD Dorvillier is a dancer, choreographer, and teacher. Since 1989 she has created and produced her works in New York City, and more recently on the international circuit. Recent projects: "CPAU", Get Ready!" with Zeena Parkins (2009), "Pièce Sans Paroles" (2010) with Anne Juren and Annie Dorsen, "The Blanket Dance" (2011) with Frédéric Gies and Jefta van Dinther, and "RMW(A) & RMW" with long-time collaborator, dancer/choreographer Jennifer Monson. She recently presented a reprise of her acclaimed "No Change or “freedom is a psycho-kinetic skill”" (2005), and performed in "Parades & Changes, replays" a re-enactment of Anna Halprin’s 1965 work by Anne Collod. Dorvillier has maintained on-going adventures with dancer/choreographers Jennifer Monson, Elizabeth Ward, and Heather Kravas, composer Zeena Parkins, and lighting designer Thomas Dunn. She has worked with: Sarah Michelson, Jennifer Lacey, and Yvonne Meier among many other inspiring artists. She has been a NYFA Choreography Fellow, a Movement Research Artist in Residence, received a New York Dance and Performance Award (Bessie) for "Dressed for Floating" (2002) and as a perfromer in "Parades & Changes, replays" (2010), the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Fellowship (2007), and a Guggenheim Fellowship (2011). In 2008, along with Trajal Harrell, she was artistic mentor of the DanceWeb Europe scholarship programme, hosted by Vienna's ImPulsTanz.