DD Dorvillier is an active force in the experimental dance and performance scene, as a creator, performer, and teacher. Her work has been shown in venues such as The Kitchen, PS122, and Danspace Project in NYC, as well as internationally in Australia, Spain, France, Austria, Japan, and Russia. She has been affiliated with Movement Research, as an Artist in Residence, a co-editor of its Performance Journal, and co-curator of the Movement Research Festival ‘04 and ‘05. She is a New York Foundation for the Arts Choreography Fellowship recipient, a Bessie Award winner (Dressed for Floating, 2002), and a 2007 recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Fellowship. She has worked with Jennifer Monson, Jennifer Lacey, Jan Ritsema, Sarah Michelson, Yvonne Meier, Karen Finley, and Pavol Lishka, among others. In 2008/09 she will perform in Parades & Changes, replays, a reconstruction of Anna Halprin’s seminal Parades & Changes (1965), initiated by choreographer Anne Collod (France) in collaboration with Anna Halprin. This year as well she will take part in the most recent choreographic work of Jennifer Lacey (USA/France) Les Asistantes.

 

  Trajal Harrell is a dancer-choreographer primarily based in New York City. His works have been seen at venues in New York City such as Danspace Project, The Kitchen, PS122, most recently in Europe at The Melkweg Theater in Amsterdam and upcoming this spring at CNDC Angers. He has been an artist-in-residence at TanzWerkStatt-Berlin and Movement Research, where he has also been active in artist-led curatorial and educational initiatives. With choreographers DD Dorvillier and Sarah Miichelson he co-edited the Movement Research Performance Journal “Release” double issue; most recently he was appointed as the new artist editor-in-chief of the publication. In 2007, he was awarded a FUSED (French-US Exchange in Dance) grant to support the presentation of his latest work, Showpony and the development of a new work. His next work, Quartet for the End of Time, will premiere at Dance Theater Workshop in the fall of 2008 supported by residencies at Centre Chorégraphique National Montpellier Languedoc-Rousillon, Centre Chorégraphique National de Franche-Comté à Belfort and Centre National de Danse Contemporaine Angers. 

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