No Change or “freedom is a psycho-kinetic skill”
Human Future Dance Corps (SAD) | author: DD Dorvillier
Winner of two Bessie Awards, DD Dorvillier is a star of the the experimental dance and performance scene in New York City, famous for her wonderfully unruly imagination and a sly sense of humor. Starting from “freedom is a psycho-kinetic skill” , a quote from Immediatisms by Hakim Bey, she plays with feedback, interpretation, and accidental associations…
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creation: DD Dorvillier
performers: DD Dorvillier, Elizabeth Ward, and Michael O’Regan/Guenther Bernhardt
lighting design: Thomas Dunn
sound design: Seth Cluett
costumes: Kelly Horrigan, Jess Beebe, and the performers
about the performance
No Change or “freedom is a psycho-kinetic skill” plays with feedback, interpretation, and accidental associations, and engages the breaks and collapses of language brought on by the scattering of sounds, objects, bodies, and intentions. It’s itinerant identity as performance that reinvents itself in each new location, depends upon the economics and affects of the space itself and the institution that supports it. No Change or “freedom is a psycho-kinetic skill” plays with conceptual groundlessness, generating a chaotic terrain of in-between spaces and action as thinking.
“freedom is a psycho-kinetic skill” is a quote from Immediatisms by Hakim Bey
about the choreographer
DD Dorvillier is a choreographer, performer, and teacher, living in New York City since 1989. 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 teaching SRT worldwide since 1995, as well her own approach to choreography and physical training. She is a double Bessie Award winner (Dressed for Floating, 2002), and a 2007 recipient of the prestigious Foundation for Contemporary Arts Fellowship. She has worked with Jennifer Monson, Jennifer Lacey, Sarah Michelson, Yvonne Meier, Karen Finley, Alain Buffard, Jan Ritsema, and Pavol Lishka, among others.
She is the Artistic Mentor of the 2008 danceWEB Europe Scholarship Program at ImPulsTanz.
