Moving with Momentum workshop with David Dorfman

Moving with Momentum workshop with David Dorfman

A fun class with David Dorfman ranging from release-based post-modern work connecting with the floor to eclectic standing modern dance.

By The Dance Complex

Date and time

Saturday, May 17 · 1:30 - 3pm EDT

Location

The Dance Complex

536 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139

Refund Policy

Refunds up to 1 day before event

About this event

  • Event lasts 1 hour 30 minutes

About Moving with Momentum (Modern/Post-Modern Technique)
Material will range in styles from release-based post-modern work connecting with the floor, to an eclectic standing modern class. Concepts such as a weighted and grounded approach to movement, harnessing the body’s momentum and force (“throwing your weight around”), varying approaches to physical contact, emphasis on intent and focus, and compositional choices through improvisation may be included.


This workshop is recommended for ages 15+.


About David Dorfman

Choreographer and Dance Activist David Dorfman has been making movement-based dance theater since graduating with an MFA in Dance from Connecticut College in 1981. In 1987 he founded David Dorfman Dance in NYC with the intention of creating politically and socially relevant work. DDD has toured the world from Tajikistan to El Salvador, and recently premiered “truce songs”, about healing and the possible reincarnation of trust, at The Space at Irondale in Brooklyn in January. David Dorfman Dance performs at ICA Boston on May 16, 17 – click here for more information!


A life-long educator, David has been a professor at Connecticut College since 2004 where DDD is Company-in-Residence. David choreographed Broadway’s “Indecent,” for which he was given a Lortel for its Off-Broadway run, and has also received a 2019 USA Fellowship in Dance, a Guggenheim, 4 NEA fellowships and a Bessie.


In his copious spare time, he has co-created and toured internationally a body of tragi-comic physical theater with dear friend Dan Froot, entitled “Live Sax Acts” – and he continues to dance profusely with wife Lisa Race and son Samson Race Dorfman.

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The Dance Complex

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