Biography
DD Dorvillier is an American dancer, choreographer, and teacher, based in France. She received two New York Dance and Performance Awards (Bessies); one in 2003 for Choreography of Dressed for Floating and one for her performance in Parades & Changes, replays (New York Live Arts, 2010), a re-staging of Anna Halprin’s seminal work, initiated by French choreographer Anne Collod. In 1991 she and choreographer Jennifer Monson created the Matzoh Factory. For over a decade the studio was a grassroots site for wild experimentation where choreographers and artists congregated. Her work with her company human future dance corps has been shown at The Kitchen, Danspace Project, and Performance Space 122, in New York, and in places such as Kaai Theater in Brussels, ImPulsTanz in Vienna, deSingel in Antwerp, STUK in Leuven, Hau/Hebel am Ufer in Berlin, Zagreb Dance Weeks in Zagreb and Tseh Festival in Moscow. In 2020 DD Dorvillier and composer Sébastien Roux inaugurated La Corvette, a new grassroots space for research and experimentation in dance and music, in rural Burgundy, France.