David Dorfman Dance

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Dancers’ Workshop presents

David Dorfman Dance “Aroundtown”

Saturday, August 17, 2019 at 8pm

The Center Theater

Adult $35-60 / Student $25

DAVID DORFMAN’S DESIRE IS TO GET “THE WHOLE WORLD DANCING!”
“He always has a quality of celebration in his work” and, structurally, his choreography can be “a bit wild, a bit untamed.” – The New York Times
Aroundtown is a kinetic hope poem that examines the varied, unique and sometimes divided notions of LOVE. With original music, text and animated visuals, Aroundtown explores commitment, community, and intimacy in times of violence and strife. The work lingers in an ethical malaise – when love spoils and turns to violence, when one needs to move on, to try a stronger potion. How do we admit this void to ourselves and turn again, literally and figuratively, to love and intimacy?

Using a raw and unique combination of off-kilter, seemingly impossible spins, perches and partnering, DDD shows life out of balance, and reveal a path to hope. The trademark empathy, sly humor, and explosive physicality of the Company are harnessed to examine LOVE as both sociopolitical and intimate weather systems.

DDD’s “radically humanistic” approach to the creation of new work manifests itself in collaborations with the dancers, designers and composers. A live band on stage adds a hauntingly poetic and oddly humorous layer to the evening’s exploration of community, joy and love.

Dorfman wants to leave the audience “a little transformed, thinking a little bit differently about how they might regard another human being tomorrow.”
DDD is in residence at Dancers’ Workshop from August 12-18, 2019 and will be offering a full week of special events and classes for dancers and non-dancers. Learn more at dwjh.org.

Photo: Adam Campos