David Dorfman has made movement-based dance theater since 1981. In 1987 he founded David Dorfman Dance in NYC with the intention of creating accessible, politically and socially relevant work. DDD has toured from Tajikistan to El Salvador – via the State Department/Brooklyn Academy of Music with “Kinetic Diplomacy”, and with USAID on Violence Prevention with Youth Dance Groups. In 2025, DDD brought classic work from 20 years ago to The Harkness Dance Center at 92Y; premiered “truce songs”, about healing and the possible reincarnation of trust at The Space at Irondale; and shared the evening at Lincoln Center’s Summer For The City in June. A life-long educator, David has taught at Connecticut College since 2004 where DDD is Company-in-Residence. David choreographed Broadway’s “Indecent,” for which he was given a Lortel for its Off-Broadway run, and has also received a 2019 USA Fellowship in Dance, a Guggenheim, 4 NEA fellowships and a Bessie. He fondly remembers performing his solo “Dayenu” at MR/Judson a long time ago, and has loved every minute at BDF where he has taught since the 90’s and has performed so many of DDD’s works. Watch for “The Front Line” next, about the way we pick our leaders.
