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CollaboratorsDAVID KYUMAN KIM is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and a member of the Associated Faculty in the Program in American Studies at Connecticut College, where he was also the inaugural director of the College’s Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity from 2005 to 2008. Kim has also taught at Harvard and Brown. In 2006, Kim became a board member and creative consultant/dramaturge and scholar-in-residence for David Dorfman Dance. Kim collaborated with David Dorfman on Disavowal and Prophets of Funk/Dance to the Music. Dorfman and Kim will continue their creative partnership in the new work for DDD Come, and Back again. Since 2009, Kim has served as Senior Advisor at the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) and Editor-at-Large of The Immanent Frame, the SSRC's blog on secularism, religion, and public life. In conjunction with the SSRC/Luce Foundation initiative on religion and international affairs, Kim is conducting Rites and Responsibilities, a dialogue forum on sovereignty, accountability, authority, and the public life of religion. With John L. Jackson, Jr., Kim is co-editing a special issue of the Annals of the American Academy of Political Social Science on race, religion, and democracy. He is also co-editor of a new book series with Stanford University Press –– RaceReligion –– with John L. Jackson, Jr. and Rudy Busto. Kim is the author of Melancholic Freedom: Agency and the Spirit of Politics (Oxford 2007). He is also co-editor, with Philip Gorski, Jonathan VanAntwerpen, and John Torpey, of The Postsecular in Question (New York University Press, forthcoming). His current book project is Future Perfect, Past Conditional: the Public Life of Love. JACOB PINHOLSTER (media designer) is a professor of Media Design at Arizona State University in the Herberger Institute School of Theatre and Film, one of the first design training programs in the country to offer a chance to specialize in projection/video design for live performance. Associate artist with Les Freres Corbusier. Off-Broadway: Escape from Bellevue, Dixie’s Tupperware Party, Boozy (LFC). New York: David Dorfman Dance’s underground (BAM) and Disavowal, Dance Dance Revolution (LFC), HeddaTRON (LFC). Regional: The Pee Wee Herman Show (LA), Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Center Theater Group), Hoover Comes Alive! (La Jolla Playhouse), Current Nobody (La Jolla Playhouse, Woolly Mamoth Theatre Company). ALEX TIMBERS (co-director underground) is an Obie Award-winning writer/director and Founder/Artistic Director of New York-based company, Les Freres Corbusier. Directing credits include Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, A Very Merry Unauthorized..., Hell House, Gutenberg! The Musical!, and Heddatron. His other credits include Peter and the Starcatchers for Disney Theatricals, co-directed with Roger Rees; The Language of Trees for the Roundabout Theatre Company; Beyond Therapy for Williamstown Theatre Festival; the Off-Broadway hit Boozy; and underground at BAM and internationally with David Dorfman Dance. For Gutenberg! The Musical!, Timbers was nominated for the Drama Desk Award for "Best Director of a Musical."For Hell House at St. Ann's Warehouse, his production was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for "Unique Theatrical Experience." A Very Merry Unauthorized... won Timbers an Obie Award as well as two Garland Awards for the LA production. The show was revived in 2006 at New York Theatre Workshop and was described by The New York Times as the "Best Revival of the Year." Dixie's Tupperware Party received a Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Solo Performance. Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, which premiered at Center Theatre Group and was workshopped at Williamstown Theatre Festival, opened at the Public Theater in New York City in May 2009 to rave reviews, and is currently in an extended run again to raves at the Public.It was co-written by Michael Friedman and Alex Timbers. Les Freres Corbusier productions include Dance Dance Revolution, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Hell House, Heddatron, A Very Merry Unauthorized, and HOOVER COMES ALIVE! at La Jolla Playhouse.Timbers graduated from Yale University. In Fall of 2005, he served as an assistant director on the Broadway premiere of Jersey Boys by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, and recently directed The Pee-wee Herman Show here in L.A. AMANDA BUJAK (Costume Designer) Amanda Bujak is a New York based costume designer and makeup artist. She designs for film, television, theater, and print. Some of her recent credits include the New York Music Festival, The Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, The new York Fringe Festival, East River Commedia Company, The Bat Theatre Company, Friendly Fire, Karole Armitage, and others. She holds an MFA from New York University. SHAUN SUCHAN (production manager) is a native of Cleveland, Ohio. He earned a bachelor of arts in theatre from Ohio State University as well as a master’s of fine arts in theatrical lighting design from the University of Florida. Shaun has designed lights for for the Neta Dance Company, Marymount Manhattan College Spring Repertoire, the Midtown International Theatre Festival and NYC Fringe Festival, as well as several productions with Turtle Shell Productions. Shaun is proud to work with such a wonderful group of artist in David Dorfman Dance.
JANE SHAW (sound designer, Disavowal) This is Ms. Shaw's first collaboration with David Dorfman. Recent work includes Olympia Dukakis' adaptation of The Tempest entitled Another Side of the Island, CROOKED at the Women's Project, Hamlet at Theater for a New Audience, Big Dance Theater's Comme Toujours Here I Stand, The Widowing of Mrs. Holyroyd at the Mint (Lortel nomination), and Susan Marshall's Adamantine. She is a recipient of the NEA TCG Career Development Program 2005-2007 and a graduate of the Yale School of Drama. Member, USA 829.JOE LEVASSEUR (lighting designer, Disavowal), has worked closely on lighting and production with many contemporary dance artists, including John Jasperse, RoseAnne Spradlin, Sarah Michelson, David Dorfman, Beth Gill, Maria Hassabi, Ashleigh Leite, Jennifer Monson, LeeSaar the Company, Anna Sperber, Megan Sprenger, Christopher Williams, Pavel Zustiak, and Big Dance Theater. He also lit theater pieces at the Chocolate Factory and Brick theaters, and designed the Off-Broadway play Edge. Levasseur is a recipient of a New York Dance and Performance "Bessie" Award for his body of work for the 2007–08 season. When not in the theater, Levasseur is in the studio, pursing another calling as a visual artist. For more information visitjoelevasseur.com. MIKE VARGAS (composer) began playing music in 1959. His curiosity has led him through many contexts, from cocktail lounges in Indonesia to underground clubs in New York, from the Kennedy Center to cancer wards, from Grimm's fairy tales to Playback Theater. Vargas has specialized in improvisation and music for dance since 1978. In addition to his ongoing pure music work, he has composed well over 100 commissioned dance scores. His music has been heard across the US, in Europe, Mexico, Australia and Brazil. Vargas also teaches in the dance department at Smith College, and in collaboration with Nancy Stark Smith in workshops and festivals around the world. He has released 9 CD's of his music. ALISON WONDERLAND (composer/vocalist) grew up in Seattle, and is now a happy New Yorker. Disavowal marks Alison's song-writing and dance-world debut. A singer-actor with a deep love of movement, Alison has premiered compositions by Sven-David Sondstrom, Leslie Sommer, and Mark Nichols. Onscreen, she has been directed by Greg Lachow, and Ry Russo-Young, and, onstage, by Claus Feldbaum, Lisa Peterson, and Rita Giomi. This season Alison appeared as Lucy in You Wont Miss Me (Sundance Film Festival Official Selection), Evita in Lilitus Girls Cabaret (The Triad,) and sang the Soprano Solo in The Passion of St. John and in Carmina Burana (Musica Viva NYC.) Alison graduated from Indiana University. Thank you David, Susan, Herald, Mom and Mona. |
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