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DD Dorvillier was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. After receiving a BA in Dance in 1989 from Bennington College, Dorvillier created performances in New York City until 2004, then began developing projects elsewhere, settling in France in 2010. Her work has been shown in New York at The Kitchen, New York Live Arts, Danspace Project, and Performance Space NY, among many other NY venues, and in countless theatres and situations internationally, very frequently in Vienna at ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival.
In 1991, she and choreographer Jennifer Monson created the Matzoh Factory in Brooklyn. For over a decade, the studio was a grassroots site for wild experimentation where choreographers and artists congregated for low-tech/low-cost shows, rehearsals, parties, and readings. Over a dozen of Dorvillier’s early works were created at the Matzoh Factory from 1991 to 2003.
Dorvillier’s artistic practice balances the exploration of the sensitive body with more conceptual approaches to composing and improvising. She seeks to encourage autonomy in the reception of her work. The relationship with sound, light, and objects, as almost linguistic materials, is often a driving force. Currently, how and where to dance, and how and why to preserve dance – how these conditions influence each other – are key questions in her research.
In 2020, with composer Sébastien Roux, she inaugurated La Corvette, a multidisciplinary research and creation space in Côte d’Or, Burgundy. Since 2021, she has been working with numerous collaborators on Untitled landscapes, an extended research and creation project. From this project have emerged Les yeux du menuisier (2022), Landscape Stories (2023-2024), and Dance is the archeologist, or an idol in the bone. (2024).
17.01.2025
