a.k.a. “Moving with Eyes Closed” (authentic movement)

A simple structure which has been the foundation of Dorvillier's artistic practice since 1989. An extremely simple premise of spending an active or not-so-active period of time with eyes closed while being observed by a partner. The participant has the opportunity to direct and follow her/his own learning and self-reflection both in movement and in the witnessing of others moving, on a daily basis.



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

This workshops focuses on generating new practices through self-directed durations of time spent touching, moving, talking, and writing, together and alone. We will practice these conditions in different chronologies and durations, inventing new purposes, projecting possible/impossible outcomes. The aims are: to proliferate unexpected practices (or even just one by the end of the workshop), to catlyse urgent connections between studio practice and art making, and to bring about a revolution in assumptions about sharing, about style, form, aesthetics, the non-universal, and the constructed.

Please be ambitious, bring your impatient expectations, a notebook that has room for a lot of writing and/or drawing, and things to write with.


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.