Current touring works

Available for booking now

DDD’s current touring works include our latest premiered work truce songs, our new work-in-the-making The Frontline, and a celebration of our past in Half-Way Back, a Semi-Retrospective.

truce songs

“I have a proposal - could we be compassionately tactile with our skin and fervently elastic with our minds?” DD

truce songs is a wild and personal meditation on peace with self, others, and the world. Employing the company’s trademark style of merging of highly athletic dancing with poignant emotion, this abstract work of movement art is devised dance-theater for all audiences. Dancing bodies serve as conduits for momentary peace as the company mines the depths of our power-crazed existence looking for foibles and laughter, perhaps our most power-full tool of all. truce songs features visuals by Andrew Schneider, costumes by Naoko Nagata, and live, original music by Lizzy de Lise and Sam Crawford.

half-way back, a semi-retrospective

Dances from 2004-2005

Originating cast members join DDD Alums and current company members for a truly special evening. Features the iconic DDD works Lightbulb Theory, Impending Joy, and Approaching Some Calm.

Lightbulb Theory sprang from two questions: 1) What is the mechanism for letting go of a loved one; do we hang on too long sometimes; how do we honor our departed? And 2) how and why do we sustain celebration in our daily life? When is hyper-celebration a way of hiding other thoughts and emotions? Lightbulb Theory was a stab in the dark at the notion of "sweet, non-irony" which has stayed with me for these past two decades up to the present. How can we create something that we feel is beautiful - perhaps more so than "cool" or "hip" - and - how can we slow down to see and feel each other more intimately?

Impending Joy initially was a reaction to the softer feel of Lightbulb Theory. It was purposely meant to have harder lines and a more harsh, direct feel - almost warrior-like. The white pickets were employed to represent a home or homeland and to be an extension of the body, the arms specifically. The dance came to feel like a questioning of 'who does what for whom", and a conjuring of multiple answers to the open-ended statement, "This is where .............." And it seems to take place on a mythical but non-existent battlefield.

Approaching Some Calm is a duet between Dorfman and his dance/life partner, Lisa Race. This work was a 10-year follow up from Approaching No Calm and sought to capture the moment in time where their friendship turned into a marriage, plus a four year old son. To accordionist Guy Klucevsek’s brilliant take on Burt Bacharach classics, it’s as if the two elders are dancing with and for each other in their living room, and we get to watch!

The frontline

A new dance theater work set in a middle school gymnasium turned polling site. The poll workers, a.k.a. the frontline of democracy, a.k.a. DDD, dance, sing and speak their personal and interwoven stories on Election Day, USA, 2040, while community members play the roles of voters. Picture a 27-year-old dancing while speaking their “what democracy means to me” essay from fifth grade. Where did we go off track with our democracy, or were we ever on track, with half the country hating the other half every four years. What if our Founding Fathers had been founding mothers? Why can’t voting be safe and for everyone? What can we do??? We will dance those questions - and eventually we will find the answers.

We’ll ask: Who gets to vote? Who doesn’t? Why? Who shirks their responsibility? How are disgruntled voters influenced by their past voting "mistakes"? What do you learn about your community?

Booking Consultant:

Harold Norris at H-Art Management

harold@h-art.nyc