C H R O N O L O G Y

1963

Winter/Spring: DD begins study at Princeton Ballet Society with Audrée Estey, Lila Bruner (former dancer with New York City Ballet), Maggie Black (former dancer with Royal Ballet), Roland Guerard (former dancer with Ballet Russes). DD dances various roles at McCarter Theater, including Benno in Swan Lake

Summer: Attends Jacob’s Pillow as scholarship student; studies with Ted Shawn, Marie Adair, Margaret Crask, Gus Solomons jr., Goya & Matteo, La Meri, Pauline Koner; sees many ballet, modern and traditional companies.

1964

Studies in NYC: Martha Graham School; Robert Joffrey Ballet with Hector Zaraspe & Françoise Martinet; Danilova; performs with Norwalk Ballet

1965-68

Teaches Spanish at Gunnery School, Washington CT; dances off & on with Joseph Albano’s Albano Ballet in Hartford, CT

1968-69

Studies at the Merce Cunningham Studio on 3rd Avenue; with Margaret Jenkins on Mulberry Street; with Richard Thomas (ballet) uptown. Performs under the direction of various choreographers: Jamie Cunningham; Tina Croll; Barbara Dilley; Bill Dunas; Cathy Posin

1969-73 - DD member of Merce Cunningham & Dance Company.

Dances made by MC while DD was in the company, 1969 through spring of 1973 (not chronological):

Tread

Second Hand

Signals

Objects

Landrover

TV Rerun

Borst Park [DD not in this dance]

Changing Steps

[Loops, a solo for and by MC]

MC pieces danced by DD in addition to above:

Walkaround Time

Rainforest [once, in Paris]

Scramble

Place

How to Pass, Kick, Fall and Run

1968-70 - DD member of Yvonne Rainer & Group

1970-76 - DD founding member of Grand Union

1971

June 19 - ONE THING LEADS TO ANOTHER: 70'. Collaboration with Sara Rudner. Performed at Laura Dean’s loft, 61 Crosby St., NYC

October 1,2 - DANCING HERE: 60'. Collaboration with Pat Catterson. Performed at The Merce Cunningham Studio, 55 Bethune St., New York City

On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 10:38 PM Pat Catterson wrote:
Yes, we each did three solos and these bookend duets. There was an audience sitting 360 around us! Even Merce was there! My two strongest memories about the whole thing have nothing to do with the dancing. The week before the concert we needed to borrow Yvonne’s Wollensack tape recorder to use for our rehearsal. We went to her loft to pick it up and it took her a long time to answer the door. When she did, she only opened the door a crack and handed it to us, and she looked just terrible, like she had been crying for days. I remember saying to you as we left going down the steps, “I don’t think we should leave Yvonne alone. She looks terrible! “You replied “oh, don’t you trust Yvonne to ask for help if she needs it? “Two weeks later was the suicide attempt. I guess she didn’t know how to ask for help.
The other thing I remember is that there was a mixup with the advertisement for our concert. We advertised it on our flyer as starting at 8:30, Video Exchange that shared West Beth with Merce and was producing this series of concerts had advertised us starting at nine and some other place advertised our show starting at eight. So we were in the small studio warming up and people were arriving at all different times. It was a problem! At some point you said I’m going to go out there and start improvising and join me in about 15 minutes. It was your way of trying to entertain the people who got there so early. We hugged and off you went. You were trembling.
Xopatcat

1972

MAYONNAISE - PART I: 11'. Film with Charles Atlas.

March 30 - CO-INCIDENTS: 60'. Collaboration with David Gordon. Design: Charles Atlas, David Gordon, DD. Performed at The Merce Cunningham Studio, 55 Bethune St., New York City

May - EIGHT LANES, FOUR APPROACHES: 12'. Collaboration with Sara Rudner. Title: SR. Presented once or twice at the Minor Latham Theater, Barnard College, New York City

November(?)- PAS DU TWO: 50’. Collaboration with Sheela Raj. Performed at the American Center, rue du Dragon, one night only.

1973

October 16 - NEVADA: 10'. DD solo. Choreoconcert Series, The New School, 66 West 12th St., NYC

October 27,28 - ORANGE MY DARLING LIME: 15'. DD solo. Performed on Young Choreographers' Sampler, Theater at Saint Clements, 423 W. 46th St., NYC

December 4,5 - TIME OUT: 60'. DD solo. Performed at Exchange Theater, 463 West St., New York City

1974

January 31 - FOUR FOR NOTHING: 60'. Dancers: Douglas Dunn, Laleen Jayamanne, Epp Kotkas, David Woodberry. The Douglas Dunn Studio, 508 Broadway, New York City, two or three weekends

April 2 - May 18 & October 2-13– 101: Solo Performance Exhibit. A work of stillness. Costume: DD. Set: DD, with assistance in construction by David Woodberry. The Douglas Dunn Studio, 508 Broadway, New York City, 7 weeks, 4 hours/day. 9' Film of 101 by Amy Greenfield filmed during the exhibit.

October 19 - OCTOPUS: 10'. Dancers: Douglas Dunn, Epp Kotkas, Sara Rudner, Howard Vichinsky, David Woodberry.  Costumes: DD. Text & tape: DD.  Choreoconcert Series, The New School, 66 West 12th St., NYC

1975

February - Part I Part II: 32’. Collaboration with David Woodberry. Performed at the Douglas Dunn Studio, 508 Broadway, New York City, weekends.

May 6-8 – GESTURES IN RED: Premier. 60’. DD solo. Costume: DD. Danced in silence. The Cunningham Studio, 55 Bethune St., NYC

May 30 & 31 – GESTURES IN RED: Presented by and at MoMing, Chicago, IL, May 30 & 31, 1975, live music by Barry Foy, lighting by Jim Self.

June 1 – GESTURES IN RED: At the invitation of Nigel Redden, Walker Art Center, at Minnesota Dance Theater, 107 4th St. SE, Minneapolis, MN, live music by Steve Kimmel.

****June (date; musician) – GESTURES IN RED: At the invitation of Barbara Dilley, Naropa Institute, The Church Studio, Boulder, CO. Live Jazz piano.

July 19 ,20 - GESTURES IN RED:. At the invitation f Margaret Jenkins, The Margaret Jenkins Studio, Bryant St. Live electronic music by Paul De Marinis.

November 14-16 – GESTURES IN RED : Merce Cunningham Studio

?GESTURES IN RED :Vehicule Art Inc., Montreal, November 6,19??

1976

April 16 -17 – LAZY MADGE: Premier. 70'. (Ongoing Choreographic Project, through 1977.) Dancers: Ruth Alpert, Michael Bloom, Douglas Dunn, Diane Frank, Christina Grasso-Caprioli, Jennifer Mascall, Daniel Press, Dana Roth, Ellen Webb at the Lucinda Childs Studio, 541 Broadway, NYC.

April 18 - LAZY MADGE: 70'. (Ongoing Choreographic Project, through 1977.) Dancers: Ruth Alpert, Michael Bloom, Douglas Dunn, Diane Frank, Christina Grasso-Caprioli, Jennifer Mascall, Daniel Press, Dana Roth, Ellen Webb at the Merce Cunningham Studio, 55 Bethune Street, NYC.

April 26, 27 – DD teaching at Cornell University

April 29 - Grand Union show in Santa Barbara, Contact: Peg Armstrong

May 4 - Grand Union show at Royce Hall in Los Angeles. Editha Dunn attends.

May 8,9 - At the invitation of Juliet Crump, Grand Union shows in Missoula, MT.

**** (?) June 1 – Grand Union Performs at Campbell Hall and LAZY MADGE at Danspace Project/St. Mark’s Church

**** (dates) June 18…. – LAZY MADGE: 70'. (Ongoing Choreographic Project, through 1977.) Dancers: Ruth Alpert, Michael Bloom, Susan Dunn, Douglas Dunn, Meg Eginton, Diane Frank, Christina Grasso-Caprioli, Jennifer Mascall, Daniel Press, Dana Roth, Ellen Webb, David Woodberry. The Lucinda Childs Studio, 541 Broadway, NYC

June 25 – DD flies to Denver

July 2 – DD flies to Reno

July 14 – DD flies to Burbank, CA

July 18 – DD flies to Denver

July 19 – DD flies to NY

July 29 – LAZY MADGE: At the invitation of Great Levart. Manhattanville College.

July 31 – DD flies NY to South Bend, Indiana to visit Ethan

August 3 – DD Flies South Bend to Denver to join Annabel. Visits Anne in Boulder

August 8 – DD & Annabel fly Denver to Reno

August 17 – DD flies Sacramento to San Jose

August 21 – DD & Annabel fly San Francisco to NY

October 23 - EARLY & LATE: 60'. DD solo. Assistance in preparation: Annabel Levitt. Performed at the Styrian Autumn Festival, Graz, Austria. (Was supposed to show Gestures in Red, but theater was inadequate. In two days made new show.)

November 4 – GESTURES IN RED: Musee de Peinture et Sculpture, Grenoble

November 12-13(?) – GESTURES IN RED: Centre Culturel du Marais, Paris, France

1977

January 26 – LAZY MADGE: Clarkson College, sponsored by SUNY Pottsdam

January 28 – LAZY MADGE: SUNY Albany – (did it happen?)

March 10 – DD master class, workshop, lecture-dem at SUNY New Paltz

March 11 – DD master class & workshop

March 12 - LAZY MADGE:  McKenna Theater, New Paltz, NY. Open rehearsal & performance

March 17-28 – LAZY MADGE: At the invitation of Nigel Redden. Residency under auspices of the Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis

March 18 – Lecture Dem at North High School

March 19-20 - Performance at the Fire House

March 20 – DD workshop

March 22 – Performed at I.D.S Center. Showing of MAYONAISE: PART 1: (1972) by Charles Atlas and 101: (1974-77) by Amy Greenfield

March 23-25 - DD workshop

March 26-27 - Performances

March 29 – LAZY MADGE: The University Gymnasium of Buffalo State College, Buffalo, NY

April 30 – LAZY MADGE: At the invitation of David & JoAnn Weinrib. Intermedia Foundation.

**** (is this correct)May 3 – DD solo improvisation at The Diplomat Hotel Grand Ballroom as part of benefit for Artservices

June 28 – American Dance Festival, Performance Palmer Auditorium, Douglas Dunn & Dancers

July 31 - CELESTE: 75'. Occasional Dance. Commission: Charles Reinhart, The American Dance Festival. Company Dancers: Ruth Alpert, Michael Bloom, Douglas Dunn, Meg Eginton, Diane Frank, Daniel Press, Jennifer Mascall, Ellen Webb, David Woodberry. Workshop Dancers: Bob Alexander, Richard Alston, Ron Argelander, Mary Benson, Cara Brownell, M'Lou Caring, Yoshiko Chuma, Christopher Crawford, Ina Delcourt, Charles Dennis, Susan Emery, Randi Fain, Carter Frank, Barbara Freedgood, Amy Gale, Janice Geller, Irene Grainger, Renni Greenberg, Susan Kampe, Peggy Kay, Pooh Kaye, Ulla Kovisto, Charles Moulton, Dean Nichols, Mary O'Connell, Liz Pasquale, Bertrand Raison, Kathy Ray, Marta Renzi, Xavier Schinnel, Mary Schultz, Elizabeth Schwarts, Monica Solem, Peggy Spina, Tom Treadwell, Shelley Valfer, Sandy Walker, Irene Weber, Cathy Zimmerman. Design: Tal Streeter. Lighting: Annabel Levitt. Performed on the Great Lawn, and in Palmer Auditorium, at Connecticut College

August 3-7 – LAZY MADGE: The Rotunda of the Custom House (now the Native American Museum), Lower Manhattan

August 10 – DD NY to Arcata, CA

August 13 – DD Arcata to Palo Alto

September 23 - DD Palo Alto to San Francisco

September 28 – SOLO FILM & DANCE: Premier. 50’. DD solo that includes showing of films Mayonnaise Part I & 101. The Oberlin Dance Collective, San Francisco, CA

October 3 - SOLO FILM & DANCE: University of California at Santa Cruz.

October 7 – SOLO FILM & DANCE: Lucille Nixon School in honor of Editha Dunn, she & her friends attend

October 12 – SOLO FILM & DANCE: I.D.E.A. Space, West Los Angeles

October 13 – DD teaches workshop, University of California Long Beach

October 14 – SOLO FILM & DANCE: University of California, Long Beach

October 17 – DD workshop

October 18 – DD performs GESTURES IN RED : The Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, OR. Contact: Donna Milrany

October 19 – DD flies to Missoula, Montana

October 20 – DD workshop University of Montana, Missoula. Contact: Juliette Crump

October 21 – Gallery performance

October 22 – flies Missoula to Minneapolis, performs GESTURES IN RED

October 23 – DD flies to NY

October 24 – DD flies to Switzerland

October 26 – DD workshop in Geneva, Switzerland

October 27& 28 – DD performs SOLO FILM & DANCE at Salle Simon I. Patino, sponsored by Adelina von Furstenberg

October 30 – DD performs SOLO FILM & DANCE in Bern, Switzerland at Tanz-Und Theaterstudio, sponsored by Alain Bernard

November 26-December 17 – DD at Repertory Dance Theater in Salt Lake City, Utah

1978

January 1 – SOLO FILM & DANCE: at 541 Broadway, 4th floor, Lucinda Childs loft

April 20 & 23 - RILLE: 87'. Occasional Dance. Dancers: Graham Conley, Christopher Crawford, Kyle de Camp, Douglas Dunn, Diane Frank, Marta Renzi, Deborah Riley. Set & Costumes: DD. Lighting: Patrick O'Rourke. Performed in the Opera House of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY

May 1-13 – DD in Portland, Maine for residency and made a piece

May 15-17 – DD workshop

June 30 - DD in Utah

October 9&10 - LAZY MADGE II: 31'. Shortened version of the original, with fewer choices for the dancers. Company Dancers: Graham Conley, Douglas Dunn, Diane Frank, Deborah Riley, Steve Spencer. Costumes: DD. Lighting: Patrick O'Rourke. Premier: Zellerbach Playhouse, Berkeley, CA

RILLE : 24'. Shortened version of the original. Company Dancers: Graham Conley, Douglas Dunn, Diane Frank, Deborah Riley, Steve Spencer. Music: David Behrman, Figure in a Clearing.  Costumes: DD. Lighting: Patrick O'Rourke. Premier: Zellerbach Playhouse, Berkeley, CA

COQUINA: 21'. Company Dancers: Graham Conley, Douglas Dunn, Diane Frank, Deborah Riley, Steve Spencer. Music: Robert Ashley. Costumes: Charles Atlas. Lighting: Patrick O'Rourke. Premier: Zellerbach Playhouse, Berkeley, CA

October 12-14 – DD & D perform at University of California at Santa Cruz

October 21-22 – DD and company performs at UCLA Schoenberg Hall

November 7 & 10 – GESTURES IN RED: The Dance Umbrella, at Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, London

November 8 or 9(?) - GESTURES IN RED - Bristol, England

November 9 - SOLO DANCE FILM, Arnolfini was presenter, Bristol, England

November 16 – Performed in Rotterdam

November 20-25 – DD at Le Palace Theatre in the Festival d’Automne

Nov 20&21 – Perfomed Lazy Madge and Coquina

Nov 22-24 – Performed Rille and Coquina

November 24 – DD gave Lecture demo in Paris at the American Center

Nov 25 – Lazy Madge & Coquina

November 29 – LAZY MADGE, RILLE, COQUINA at Maison de la Culture de Rennes, France

December 14-23 – DD worked at Portland Dance Theater under the auspices of Jann McCauley;

PALM ?

1979

January – DD teaches workshop at 508 Broadway

February 21-24 – Douglas Dunn & Dancers performs LAZY MADGE, RILLE, & COQUINA at Entermedia Theater, 189 2nd Ave, NYC

March 28 – DD flies NY to Toronto

March 29 – GESTURES IN RED: Presented by The Art Gallery of Ontario, & the International Communications Agency, Embassy of the USA, at the Walker Court, Art Gallery of Ontario, Grange Park, Toronto, Canada

March 20 – DD to Ottowa

March 31 – GESTURES IN RED: Presented by Le Groupe de la Place Royale, & the International Communications Agency, Embassy of the USA, at Studio 1, 130, rue Sparks, Hardy Arcade, Ottowa. Contact: Anne Valois

April 4–May 18 – DD teaches at 537 Broadway

April 1 – GESTURES IN RED: Pavillion Mont-Royal, Montreal, Presented by the Musee des Beaux Arts, & the International Communications Agency, Embassy of the USA, at the University of Montreal, 265 W. Ave., Mont-Royal

May 21 - DD flies to Berlin

May 24-25 DD workshop

May 26-28 - FOOT RULES: 60'. Dancers: Deborah Riley, Douglas Dunn. Music: John Driscoll, Elbers & Mole, played live. Costumes: Mimi Gross. Performed at the Akademie der Kunste, Berlin. Contact: Nele Hertling

May 29 – DD flies to Nancy, France

June 5-7 – DD looks at piece in Nancy

June 11-30 –DD teaches in NY

July 6 & 7 - ECHO: 20'. Occasional Solo for DD. Music: John Driscoll, Listening Out Loud, (including the saw)played live. Costume: Charles Atlas. Performed at Summergarden, Museum of Modern Art, New York City

July 30–August 18 – Teaching at the Margaret Jenkins Dance Studio, 1590 15th St; San Francisco, CA

September 8-10 – DD in Toronto

September 10 – FOOT RULES in Burton Auditorium, at York University with Deborah Riley and John Driscoll doing live music

September 20-23 & 27-30 – FOOT RULES: American Theater Laboratory, DTW 219 West. 19th St., New York City

October 8 – DD & Deborah fly to Toronto. Contact: Yves Consineau

October 10 – FOOT RULES: Burton Auditorium, York University, Toronto

October 11 – DD & Deborah fly Toronto to NY

October 12-13 – RELIEF: 25'. Repertory Dance Theatre at Capitol Theater, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT. Dancers: Michael Kelly Bruce, Robin Chmelar, Ford Evans, Joel Kirby (Oct. 12), Michele Massoney, Rachel Nelson, Thom Scalise, Linda C. Smith, , Steve Spencer (Oct.13).  Rehearsal Directors:  Michael Kelly Bruce, Robin Chmelar. Costumes: Marina Harris. Music: John Driscoll, Bottom Coasting. Lighting: M. Kay Barrell. 

October 16 – DD teaches at Columbia University/Continuing Education, NY

December 17-January 13 – DD Nancy, France?

MAKING DANCES: a film by Michael Blackwood (1979) 90 Minutes, 16mm film, Color. Douglas Dunn, Sara Rudner, David Gordon, Trisha Brown, Lucinda Childs.

1980

January 1 – DD in Nancy, France

February 27 - SUITE DE SUITE : 30'. Commission: Jean-Albert Cartier, Ballet Theatre Francais de Nancy. Dancers: Noriko Kubota, Edith Muller, Catherine Zerara, Noriko Aoyama, Francoise Dubuc, Helene Kuzminsky, Yannick Blanchard, Jean Vinclair, Hacene Bahiri, Didier Chazeau, Edouard Kan, Philippe Mulh. Music: Eliane Radigue, from Triptych. Decor: Christian Jaccard. Lighting: Sylvain Ghiloni. Premier: Grand Theatre de Nancy, France

February 29 - RELIEF: 25'. At the invitation of Linda Smith, director of Repertory Dance Theater of Salt Lake City, UT, Dunn prepares the new piece with the company dancers in October of 1979 in SLC; the premiere takes place in Memorial Auditorium, Stanford, CA, as part of The Lively Arts at Stanford programming; Dancers: Michael Kelly Bruce, Robin Chmelar, Kay Clark, Ford Evans, Michele Massoney, Rachel Nelson, Thom Scalise, Steve Spencer;  Rehearsal Directors:  Michael Kelly Bruce, Robin Chmelar; Costumes: Marina Harris; Music: John Driscoll, Bottom Coasting; Lighting: M. Kay Barrell.

April 2 – SUITE DE SUITE Performed, Municipal Theatre d’Orleans

April 22 – SUITE DE SUITE by the Ballet Theatre de Français de Nancy in Orleans

April 22-27 - ECHO: 60'. Company Dancers: Susan Blankensop, Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn, Diane Frank, John McLaughlin, Deborah Riley. Guests: Alice Kaltman, Steve Spencer, Megan Walker. Music: John Driscoll, Clay Banks (1980), played live with Linda Fisher. Costumes: Charles Atlas. Set: Mimi Gross, No Curtain (Yellow). Lighting: Patrick O'Rourke. Performed at The Kitchen, 484 Broome St., New York City

June 16-27 – DD in Teaching Residency at University of Montana, Missoula

July 26- August 3 – DD at York University, Toronto, Canada teaching residency, some work on Pulcinella, Sento Dire, e.g.

September 1 – DD to Paris to begin making PULCINELLA

October 24 - DD moves to Confluence off Place de Clichy

November 2 - DD returns to Jacques Garnier’s

November 11- DD return to Confluence

November 16- Editha & Susan arrive

November 19 – Premier, PULCINELLA: 40'. Co-commission, instigated by Michel Guy of the Autumn Festival, & the Paris Opera Ballet, as part of an homage to Igor Stravinsky. Dancers: Wilfride Piollet, Jean Guizerix; Catherine Biry, Fabienne Compet, Laurence Debia, Catherine Goffinon, Christine Landault; Bruno Cauhape, Laurent Hilaire, Thierry Mongne, Frederic Olivieri, Laurent Queval, Wilfrid Romoli. Singers: Magali Damonte, Christian Jean, Andre Cognet. Costumes: Norbert Schmucki after an idea by DD. Lighting: John Davis. Theatre des Champs Elysees.

November 20 - Editha, Susan & DD go driving in Loire valley

December 3 – Bowdoin College: DD teaches class, workshop & improvises to entire Pulcinella score in Daggett Lounge in Wentworth Hall.

1981

January 5-12 – DD teaches workshop, Washington DC

Jan 10 – Lecture demonstration at George Washington University Dance Department by DD and John Driscoll

January 12 - FOOT RULES: Smithsonian's American Dance Experience Series, Marvin Theater, Washington, DC.

JANUARY 14 & 15 – DD in residency with the Arts Series Program run by James Carroll, Knutztown State College in Knutztown PA;had individual conferences with students and then performed a solo an improvisation

February 3-5 – Residency in Rochester NY, whole company

Feb 13- DD leaves for Paris

Feb 16-March 18 – DD in Paris creating CYCLES

March 31 - CYCLES: 27'. Commission: Jacques Garnier, Director, Groupe de Recherche Choregraphique de l'Opera de Paris. Dancers: Bertrand Barena, Jean-Claude Ciappara, Florence Claudet, Renaud Fauviau, Katia Grey, Jean-Christophe Pare, Fabienne Ozanne, Anne Prevost, Jean-Hugues Tanto, Guy Vareilhes, Martine Vuillermoz. Music: Steve Lacy, The Four Edges, played live by Steve Lacy & his Group. Costumes: DD. Premier: Soissons, France

Day of Last rehearsal DD injures his back and stays at Confluence for several weeks recovering.

April 6 – Performance at the American Center in Paris, just DD

April 27- DD returns home after injury and performances

June 14 – Benefit for the Kitchen at Bond’s Casino

June 20 & 21 - WALKING BACK: 72'. Occasional Dance. Company Dancers: Susan Blankensop, Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn, Diane Frank, John McLaughlin, Deborah Riley. Costumes: DD. Music: John Driscoll, Fishs Eddy, (1981), played live. Lighting: Patrick O'Rourke. Performed at The Dance Center at the Y, 344 East 14th Street, New York City. 3 shows, June 20 at 8:30 and June 21 at 3om and 8:30pm

July 13 - 31 – Residency at Harvard University: Two classes daily, also taught classes at the Joy of Movement Center, Central Square. July 22, Lecture demonstration at Boylston Hall. July 24 & 25 - HOLDS: Occasional Dance. 60’. Dancers: Susan Blankensop, Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn, Diane Frank, Deborah Riley. Costumes: DD. Music: John Driscoll, playing live. Lighting: Patrick O'Rourke. At Sanders Theater, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

August 1-3 – Workshop. Performance on the open space on the 4th, 5th in small theater

August 1-6 - CHATEAUVALLONESQUE: 60'. Occasional Dance. Company Dancers: Susan Blankensop, Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn, Diane Frank, John McLaughlin, Deborah Riley. Costumes: DD. Music: John Driscoll, playing live. Performed on the outdoor stage of the Chateauvallon Festival, near Toulon, southern France

September 18-22 – HOLDS: Eventidanza ’81; Teatro Affratellamento, Florence, Italy

September 25-28 – HOLDS: Eventidanza ’81; Teatro di Porta Romana, Milan, Italy

October 4 – DD to Minneapolis MN

October 5 – At the Children’s Theater under the auspices of the New Dance USA Festival/Walker Arts Center, Douglas Dunn & Dancers perform SKID, In Minneapolis MN. Shared program with Dana Reitz and Karole Armitage/Rhys Chatham.

October 7 – Company traveled to San Antonio Texas: Diane Frank, Deborah Riley, Susan Blankenstop, Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn, John McLaughlin, Patrick O’Rourke, John Driscoll

October 8 & 9 - Masterclass

October 10 – Performed HOLDS Carver Community Cultural Center

October 11 - returned

October 28 – travel to Paris

November 1, 2,4-8 - VIEW: 50'. Company Dancers: Susan Blankensop, Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn, Diane Frank, John McLaughlin, Deborah Riley. Costumes: Charles Atlas. Music: John Driscoll, Lums Pond, played live, with rotating loudspeakers on stage. Lighting: Patrick O'Rourke. Premier: Festival d'Automne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

HITCH: 26'. Company Dancers: Susan Blankensop, Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn, Diane Frank, John McLaughlin, Deborah Riley. Costumes: Charles Atlas. Music: Linda Fisher, Median Strip II, played live. Lighting: Patrick O'Rourke. Premier: Festival d'Automne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

SKID: 26'. Company Dancers: Susan Blankensop, Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn, Diane Frank, John McLaughlin, Deborah Riley. Costumes: Mimi Gross. Music: John Driscoll, Fishs Eddy, played live. Lighting: Patrick O'Rourke. Premier: Festival d'Automne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

November 3 – workshop at the American Center 261, boulevard Raspail

Nov 11 – Travel day, to Holland

Nov 12 – Performance in Haarlem

Nov 13 – Performance in Theater Zuidplein, Rotterdam

Nov 14 – Performance in Cultuurcentrum d’Oosterpoort, Groningen

Nov 15 – Travel to Bordeaux, France

November 16-18 - Performance at Theatre Femina, Bordeaux

November 20 – Performance at Masion de La Culture, La Rochelle, *Performance Cancelled due to union black-out

November 21 – Theatre Municipal beaurepaire, Angers, France

November 16 - TERRI'S DANCE: 8'. Company Dancers: Susan Blankensop, Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn, Diane Frank, John McLaughlin, Deborah Riley. Performed at the Theatre Femina, 10, rue de Grassi, Bordeaux, France, without John McLaughlin, who was injured, and with Special Guest Therese Barbanel, who read something about a fox. John Driscoll played live saw.

November 22 - Day off in Angers

November 23 – Travel day

November 24 – Day off in Le Havre

November 25 – Performance in Masion de La Culture/Theater de L’Hotel de Ville, in Le Havre

November 27 – Perform at Le Centre d’ Action Culturelle Pablo Meruda in Corbeil, France

November 28 – Perform at the Masion pour Tous de Saint Quentin en Yvelines; St.Quentin, France

November 30 – Perform at the Theatre de Caen, France

December 24 – DD flies NY to Arcata, CA

1982

January 3 – DD flies San Francisco to NY

March 18- DD to St. Louis, MO

March 19 – Full performance of VIEW and HITCH at Edison Theater, St Louis, MO. Contact: Hazel Forster

March 20 – Full performance of VIEW and SKID

March 21 – returned to NY

May 20-29 - GAME TREE: 60'. Commission: Cynthia Hedstrom, The Danspace Project. Company Dancers: Susan Blankensop, Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn, Diane Frank, John McLaughlin, Deborah Riley.  Music: Linda Fisher, Aurora (1992), played live. Costumes: DD. Lighting: Patrick O'Rourke. Premier: Danspace, St. Mark's Church, 10th St. & 2nd Ave., New York City

Tues - Sun, May 25 - 30, 2 - 7 pm - 3 STATIC VISUALS, which includes PERFORMANCE EXHIBIT #2; as DD moves to 541 Broadway, he uses the temporarily empty space of his previous studio at 508 Broadway to present a second work of live stillness, the first being 101 of 1974; he builds an oversized "bed" of raw blond wood supported on stilts, one end higher than the other; the tilted platform has eighteen-inch-high sides all around; the "bed" is filled fully with white gauzy material; the structure is placed on the diagonal, northeast to southwest; two performers, Rhonda Moore and Brian Moran, she black, he white, lie side by side supine, heads on the upside of the incline, not touching, naked, half hidden by the gauzy material that puffs up around them; viewers enter the gallery-like situation on their own time, stay as long as they wish; the rest of the loft is empty save for a few visuals on the walls near the entrance; the "bed" is all the way at the other, west end of the loft, near the windows overlooking Broadway; afternoon sunlight falls directly onto the "bed."

December 17, “Making Dances: Post-Modern Choreographers” video exhibition at I.C.A in Boston. Exhibition titled: Art & Dance: Images from the Modern Dialogue, 1980-1980. November 9,1982-January 8, 1983 at The Institute of Contemporary Art, 955 Boylston St., Boston, MA.

1983

January 15-17 - SECOND MESA: 180'. Commission: Elisabeth Sussman, The Institute of Contemporary Art. Company Dancers: Susan Blankensop, Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn, Diane Frank, Deborah Riley. Guest: Kenneth DeLap. Decor: Jeffrey Schiff. Costumes: DD. Music: John Driscoll, with Richard Lerman, playing live. Performed at The Institute of Contemporary Art, 955 Boylston St., Boston, MA.

January 21-23, 25-30 - SECRET OF THE WATERFALL: 40'. Live show based on video-dance of same name. Company Dancers: Susan Blankensop, Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn, Diane Frank, John McLaughlin, Deborah Riley. Text written and performed by Reed Bye & Anne Waldman. Set: Mimi Gross. Costumes: Charles Atlas. Presented at the Douglas Dunn Studio, 541 Broadway, New York City, two shows each day.

March 11-19 – Ethan visits from Asheville, NC

April 3 - SECRET OF THE WATERFALL: 29'. Video-dance. Commission: Susan Dowling, New Television Workshop, WGBH, Boston. Company Dancers: Susan Blankensop, Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn, Diane Frank, John McLaughlin, Deborah Riley. Text written & performed by Reed Bye & Anne Waldman. Costumes, Direction & Editing: Charles Atlas. Shot on Martha's Vineyard, September, 1982. First shown at The Kitchen, 484 Broome St., New York City

April – Warner Main Space Theater, whole company did one performance, also Lecture Dem in Ohio University/Baker Center, Athens OH with Performance Memorial Auditorium Ohio University

May tour – Two shows at the Centre Culturel Lemaillon, Strasbourg France

Teater Am Turm, Frankfurt West Germany two shows

Akademie der Kunste Berlin West Germany three shows

American Center in Paris three shows

Rencontres Nationales de la Danse in Evry, France/ one show

July 12 – DD teaches workshop in Aix en Provence. Teaching. Then joined by Grazia and Ethan, by train to Barcelona and Valencia.

July 29-August 1 – Hotel Sidi Saler Sol Valencia, Spain

October 5-10 – DD in Washington, DC teaching

October 9 & 10 – GAME TREE Performance in Washington DC

December 15- Showing of PULCINELLA in progress at 541 West Broadway

1984

February 29- VIEW, HITCH, SKID at University of Maryland, Baltimore County one show

March 30 – DD flies to Pont-a-Mousson (arts center, a former monastery) meets Jerzy Bircinsky for workshop with company memebers: John McLaughlin, Susan Blanksop, Grazia Della-Terza, Debra Riley, Diane Frank. 

March 30 - SECRET OF THE WATERFALL at University of Maryland, Baltimore County one show. UMBC. A lecture and demonstration.

April 15- Performed HITCH and a piece created during workshop in collaboration with Jerzy Bircinsky at Pount-a-Mousson

April 15 – Nimes, France

April 16 : ELBOW ROOM :24'. Company Dancers: Susan Blankensop, Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn, Diane Frank, John McLaughlin, Deborah Riley. Guest: David Kulick. Costumes: Mimi Gross. Music: Linda Fisher, Speechless, played live. Lighting: Patrick O'Rourke. Premier: Theatre Municipal de Nimes, Place de la Calade, Nimes, France

May 12 - NAROPA EAST : 8'. Occasional Dance. Company Dancers: Susan Blankensop, Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn, Diane Frank, John McLaughlin, Deborah Riley. Performed at Naropa East Benefit, New York City

May 23 - PULCINELLA : 40'. Resetting on DD&D of 1980 original. Company Dancers: Susan Blankensop, Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn, Diane Frank, John McLaughlin, Deborah Riley. Special Guest: Karole Armitage. Guests: Adelia de Almeida, William Douglas, Mitch Kirsch, David Kulick, Jon C. Mensinger, Kate Nesbitt, Andrea Smith, John Stowe, Bill Young. Design: Mimi Gross. Music: Igor Stravinsky, Pulcinella. Lighting: Patrick O'Rourke. Premier of DD&D mounting (original on Paris Opera Ballet in 1980). The Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue, New York City

May - COQUINA The Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue, New York City

May - VIEW HITCH SKID The Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue, New York City

June 4 – DD flies NY to San Francisco

June 5 – DD visits David Ireland

June 6,7,8,& 9 GAME TREE: New Performance Gallery, 3153 17th Street, San Francisco, CA. Performance at 8:30 pm. Co-presented with Going Places/New Performance Gallery/CAL Performances.  Choreography: Douglas Dunn Music: “Aurora” by Linda Fisher Lighting: Patrick O’Rourke Dancers: Susan Blankensop, Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn, Diane Frank, John McLaughin, Deborah Riley.

June 7 – Reception for Editha Dunn at 10pm held at New Performance Gallery.

June 25 – DD flies to NY

August 18 – DD flies to Paris

August 18-26 – DD rehearsing FUTURITIES with Elsa Wolliaston for Steve Lacy’s FUTURITIES

September 16 – DD flies to Minneapolis, making piece for New Dance Ensemble?

October 7 – DD flies Minneapolis to NY

October- VIEW, HITCH, and SKID Hampshire Auditorium, University of Iowa

October 13, 19, 21, 25, 27- 1ST ROTATION: 23'. Co-commission: Linda Shapiro & Leigh Dillard, New Dance Ensemble; Robert Sterns, Walker Art Center. Made on and performed by dancers of New Dance Ensemble: Diane Aldis, Susan Chilcote, Madeline Dean, Leigh Dillard, Kelly McDonald, Wil Swanson, Jonathan Urla. Music: Steve Kramer, What Happens to Circles, lyrics by Cathy Young. Costumes: Beth Sidla. Premier: Jewish Community Center, Minneapolis, MN.

November 9-10 - CYCLES: Maison de la Culture de Nevers et de la Nievre; Groupe de Recherche Choregraphique de l’Opera de Paris. Cycles Choregraphie: Douglas Dunn Original Music: Steve Lacy (Four edges) Interpreted at Nevers by Steve Lacey Quintet, Steve Lacey and Steve Potts (sax) Olivier Johnson (percussion) Jean-Jacques Avenel (contrabass) and Irene Aebi (voice and strings) Lighting:  Claude Tissier; Ballet was created in April 1981 at Theatre de la ville a Paris with dancers:  Fabienne Compet, Jean-Christophe Pare, Katia Grey, Anne Pruvost, Jean-Claude Ciappara, Martine Clary, Fabienne Ozanne, REnaud Fauviau, Jean-Hugues Tanto, Loic Touze, Florence Lambert, Andre Lafonta.

November 14-18 - FUTURITIES: 90'. Two performances. Conceived by Steve Lacy and Elsa Wolliaston. Music: Steve Lacy, played live by his group, with voice by Irene Aebi. Decor: Kenneth Noland. Text: Robert Creeley. Lighting: John Davis. Choreographed and performed by Elsa Wolliaston and DD. Co-production of the Festival de Lille and the Opera du Nord. Premier: Grand Theatre, Lille, France

November 28 – DD flies to Paris

December 6-8 - 2ND ROTATION, PULCINELLA: 27'. Company dancers: Susan Blankensop, Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn, Diane Frank, Deborah Riley, Bill Young. Guest dancers: William Douglas, Mitch Kirsch, Michael La Salata, Andrea Smith, John hStowe. Music: Linda Fisher. Lighting: Kevin Dreyer. Performed in La Grande Salle de la Maison de la Culture, Grenoble, France

December - FUTURITIES in Niort. Two Performances.

2ND ROTATION and PULCINELLA in Dijon, France, one show

FUTURITIES in Avignon and Tarbes one show each

1985

March 23 - 3RD ROTATION: 25'. Company Dancers: Susan Blankensop, Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn, Paul Engler, Diane Frank, Deborah Riley, Bill Young. Music: Linda Fisher playing live.  Costumes: David Hannah. Lighting: Mitchell Bogard. Premier: The Dance Center at the Y, 344 East 14th St., New York City

March 23 - JIG JAG: 21'. Company Dancers: Susan Blankensop, Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn, Paul Engler, Diane Frank, Deborah Riley, Bill Young. Music: Ron Kuivila. Costumes: David Hannah. Lighting: Mitchell Bogard. Premier: The Dance Center at the Y, 344 East 14th St., New York City

March 23 – ELBOW ROOM Premier: The Dance Center at the Y, 344 East 14th St., New York City

Spring ? - PACIFIC SHORES: 29'. Company Dancers: Susan Blankensop, Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn, Paul Engler, Diane Frank, Deborah Riley, Bill Young. Costumes: Charles Atlas. Premier: Geneva, Switzerland

September 13-14 – 3RD ROTATION, ELBOW ROOM, AND JIG JAG at Wesleyan University Middletown, CT.

November 1 - DD leads, assisted by Grazia Della-Terza & Lissy Trachtenberg, a workshop at 541 DD&D Studio: called “Confusion”; a group of students fro SUNY; DD had placed shoe boxes full of strips of paper, on each an instruction, around the edges of the studio; we wait ten minutes of more giving no instruction; finally a student goes to one of the boxes; others follow; they begin to enact the instructions

November 15 - LIFT: 21'. Occasional Dance commissioned by Alice Kaltman. Dancers: Alice Kaltman, Lissy Trachtenberg, Douglas Dunn. Performed at the La Jolla Art Museum, La Jolla, CA

December – Grazia and DD dance the PULCINELLA duet in the cafeteria of the Cambridge School (Grazia’s High School) Weston, MA

December – Studio Performance at 541 West Broadway, Company Members: Grazia Della-Terza, Brenda Daniels, Douglas Dunn, and Bill Young        

1986

March 10-29 – Rehearsals at 541 Broadway

March 28 – DD goes to Paris

April 2-6 – FUTURITIES with Steve Lacy. Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany.

April 11 & 12 – Company rehearses without Douglas

(THIRD ROTATION, PACIFIC SHORES, JIG JAG)

April 13 – Company flies to Geneva, Switzerland

April 16-17 – Perform at Vernier, Geneva

April 18 – Performed at Sion, Switzerland April 19- 24 – Company on break

April 25- 27 – Company in Martigues, France

May 2-5 – Company in Berlin

May 8 – Valladolid, Spain

May 9 – New York

May 12- June 7 – rehearsals at 541 Broadway

June 11-15 - DANCES FOR MEN, WOMEN, AND MOVING DOOR : 117'. Company Dancers: Susan Blankensop, Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn, Paul Engler, Diane Frank,  Deborah Riley, Bill Young. Guests: Michael La Salata, Lissy Trachtenberg.  Music: Alvin Lucier. Set & Costumes: David Ireland. Lighting: Jeffrey McRoberts. Premier: Marymount Manhattan College, New York, NY

July 20 - DANCE FOR THE HOUSE DD and Grazia dance for David Ireland throughout his house at 500 Capp Street San Francisco, CA in celebration of the house’s 100th anniversary: 1886-1986, at 11 o’clock in the morning, Sunday July 20, 1986. Reception Following.

June 17-25 – Company residency at Dance Place in Washington D.C.

September- Perform at Central Park Summerstage New York City

September 29-October 5 DANCES FOR MEN, WOMEN, AND MOVING DOOR at the Pompidou Center, Paris, France 6 shows and 1 show at Maison du la Culture in Mulhouse

October 7- DANCES FOR MEN, WOMEN, AND MOVING DOOR Rallye Drouot, Mulhouse France at 8:30 pm. Company Dancers: Susan Blankensop, Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn, Paul Engler, Diane Frank, Deborah Riley, Bill Young. Guests: Michael La Salata, Lissy Trachtenberg.  Music: Alvin Lucier. Set & Costumes: David Ireland. Lighting: Jeffrey McRoberts.

October- FUTURITIES:

Maison du la Culture in Genvilliers, France, 3 shows,

Bloomsbury Theatre, London, England, 2 shows

Royal N, College, Manchester, England, 2 shows

Swan Theatre, Stratford on Avon, England, 1 show

Theatre Clwyd, Mold, Wales, 1 show

Bluecoat Theatre, Liverpool, England, 1 show

Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, England, 2 shows

St. Paul’s Hall, Huddersfield, England, 2 shows

City Theatre, Ghent, Belgium, 1 show

December 20-22 – DD teaches workshop at 541 Broadway

1987

February 3-7 – DD on NEA Dance/Film/Video panel

April 9-12 – DD in Washington DC. Company performs LIGHT, O TEASE

April 14-19 & 21-26 - LIGHT, O TEASE: 73'. Company Dancers: Susan Blankensop, Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn, Paul Engler, Deborah Riley, Bill Young. Costumes: DD with Jane Townsend and Pier Voulkos. Music: Henry Cowell, from Prelude for Violin & Harpsichord; Something in the Way She Moves, sung by Willie Nelson; Mi par d'udir ancora, sung by John McCormack; from Voodoo Trance Music, Ritual Drums of Haiti; Venetian Song, sung by John McCormack; Harold Budd, from Abandoned Cities; Johann Sebastian Bach, Minuet in C, transcribed for guitar and played by Andres Segovia; It Don't Mean a Thing If You Ain't Got That Swing, performed by Ella Fitzgerald & Duke Ellington; Johann Sebastian Bach, from Chaconne, transcribed for guitar and played by Andres Segovia. Performed at the Douglas Dunn Studio, 541 Broadway, New York City

June 12-14 – OPERIA: 15'. Commission: Bill Young. Dancers: Meg Eginton & Bill Young. Costumes: DD. Music: Giuseppe Verdi, from Rigoletto; Richard Wagner, from Gotterdammerung; Edgar Varese, from Integrales; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, from Divertimento in F, KV 138. Presented at Hundred Grand, 100 Grand Street, New York City

June 27 - THE PERFECT SUMMER DRESS: 66'. Occasional Dance. Collaboration with poet Anne Waldman. Performers: Anne Waldman & DD.  Costumes: Anne Waldman & DD. Music: Harold Budd, from Abandoned Cities; John Fahey, from Requiem for John Hurt; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, from Divertimento in F; Peter Garland, from Dreaming of Immortality in a Thatched Cottage. Presented at Performing Arts Center, Naropa Institute

September 6-27 – DD in Salt Lake City

November 6 - PEEPSTONE: 24'. Commission: Linda Smith, Repertory Dance Theater. Made on and for dancers of Repertory Dance Theater Salt Lake City, UT. Music: Claude Debussy, Prelude #1; Bob Dylan, Going, Going, Gone; Thoinot Arbeau, Branle double; John Bartlet, Whither Runneth My Sweetheart; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Eine Kleine Gigue, K./KV 574; Claude Debussy, from Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp; Christoph Willibald von Gluck, Dance of the Furies, from Orfeo ed Euridice. Premier: The Capitol Theater, Salt Lake City, Utah

1988

March 17-20, 24-27 - MATCHES: 62'. Dancers: Susan Blankensop, Douglas Dunn, Grazia Della-Terza, Jane Townsend, Bill Young. Design: Mimi Gross. Sound: Jacob Burckhardt. Lighting: Jeffrey McRoberts. Performed at The Kitchen, New York City; one night cancelled by the Fire Department.

May 1-June – DD goes to Paris lives and works on GONDOLAGES in Poissy with Jean and Wilfride

June 1 – Premier, GONDOLAGES: 32'. Co-commission: Jean Guizerix/Wilfride Piollet; Marcel Bonnaud, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. Dancers: Wilfride Piollet, Jean Guizerix, Douglas Dunn. Design: Uli Gassmann. Music: Richard Strauss, from Eine Alpensinfonie; Giacomo Puccini, Nessun Dorna from Turandot; Francesco Cavalli, Amara servitu; Captaine Tobias Hume, Touch Me Lightly, from  Musicall Humors; Fernando Sor, Study for Guitar; Robert Schumann, Kreisleriana #1, Opus 16, & Kinderszenen #1, Opus 15; Alabama, There's No Way; Enrique Granados, Spanish Dance in E Minor, transcribed and played by Andres Segovia. Lighting: Uli Gassmann & Said Fakhoury. Premier: Centre Georges Pompidou. The work continues to be performed as repertory in the group Jean Guizerix, Wilfride Piollet, Jean Christophe Pare.

July- MATCHES at the World Financial Center, New York City Workshop at Jacob’s Pillow

September 8 - HAOLE: 40'. Solo for DD. Text: Niles Eldredge & Ian Tattersall, from The Myths of Human Evolution. Music: Brian Eno, from Music for Films; Thoinot Arbeau, Branle double; Claude Debussy, Prelude #1; Bob Dylan, Going, Going, Gone; Giacomo Puccini, Nessun Dorna from Turandot;  Francesco Cavalli, Amara servitu;  Captaine Tobias Hume, from Musicall Humors; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Eine Kleine Gigue, K./KV 574; Charles Kaipo and His Happy Hawaiians, from Sophisticated Hulas. Performances: Whitney Museum's Equitable Center Theater, September 8, 1988;

HAOLE at the Painted Bride in Philadelphia, PA

September 10-24 – Judging Dance at Sala Olimpia, Il Certamen Coreographico de Madrid. September 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 & 18th 1988. Jury President - Madrid, Spain.

September 29-October 2 – DD works at New Arts in Philadelphia, PA

October- HAOLE at the Gunnery School, Washington, CT

November 19 - NOVEMBER DUET : 6'. Dancers: Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn. Music: Little Sonny. Premier: DD&D Benefit, the Douglas Dunn Studio, 541 Broadway, New York City

December - DD in Minneapolis making WILDWOOD for New Dance Ensemble

1989

March 2 - SKY EYE: 60'. Co-production: The Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church, New York City; Michel Guy, Festival d'Automne, Paris. Company Dancers: Susan Blankensop, Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn, Michael La Salata, Jane Townsend, Bill Young. Set, Ghostbreath Mountain, & Costumes: Mimi Gross. Music: Andre Campra, from Messe de Requiem; Abess Hildegard of Bingam, from Gothic Voices; from Codex Chantilly, Airs de Cour du XIV siecle; Claude Debussy, Nuages; from Music of the Rain Forest Pygmies; Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, from Miss Negra sum; Josquindes Pres, from Missa Pange Lingua; from Drums of West Africa, Ritual Music of Ghana. Lighting: Carol Mullins. Premier: St. Mark's Church, New York City

Also performs in Lisbon, Portugal & Paris, France

March 28 –  DD to Albany and back??

April 2-9 – Minneapolis, DD teaches on the 3-5

April 9 – DD to NY

April 13 – Stanford, teaches on the 14th

April 16 – Performs at the Sequoias

April 18 – DD to Seattle, teaches class at Cornish school under auspices of Brenda Daniels, then goes to Bellingham WA

April 22 – Grazia and DD perform at Mt.Baker Theater, some of NOVEMBER DUET, solo from VIEW, and solo from ELBOW ROOM

April 26 – DD teaches a class at Western Washington University

May 1 – DD to Portland, teaches workshop on the 2nd, and May 3 performs HAOLE

May 5 – DD return to NY

May 12 – HAOLE: Rockland Center for the Arts, 27 South Greenbush Road, West Nyack, NY

May 17 & 20: Excerpts from THE GREAT DINOSAUR RESCUE: The American Natural History Museum, New York, NY. Performed in The Hall of Late Dinosaurs, DD and Grazia Della-Terza performed duet from THE GREAT DINOSAUR RESCUE. Music by John Cimino and Richard Albagli.

May 20, 22-25 - THE GREAT DINOSAUR RESCUE: Work conceived by John Cimino for Associated Solo Artists, of which he is Director, and guests. DD & Grazia Della-Terza were Guest Artists in the production, making and performing material to fit the show, intended for young audiences. Music: John Cimino, Richard Albagli, Jon Klibonoff. Grazia Della-Terza & DD performed in two series of presentations, two shows a day: Imagination Celebration, sponsored by the New York State Education Department & the New York State Museum, at the New York State Museum, Albany, NY

May 25 – DD to NYC, did something with Jan Gero that night and then went back to Albany on the 26th

May 27-29, June 4 – More DINOSAUR RESCUE performances in Albany

June 3-7 – DD serves on NEA

July 1 – DD fly to Aix en Provence, France

July 6 – HAOLE: Espace Culturel Mejanes, Manufacture d'Allumettes, Festival International Danse a Aix, Aix en Provence, France

July 23 – Return to US

July 26 – DD at Jacob’s Pillow, teaches classes on 27 & 28.

July 29 - DD goes to Belfast, Maine: Triple Duo?

August 2 – Return to NY

September 8 - AHOY: 15'. Occasional Dance commissioned by the Staten Island Council on the Arts. Company Dancers: Susan Blankensop, Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn, Michael La Salata, Jane Townsend, Bill Young. Music: Selection by DD. Performed on the Staten Island Ferry, once each way.

September-October - THE GREAT DINOSAUR RESCUE: Work conceived by John Cimino for Associated Solo Artists, of which he is Director, and guests. DD & Grazia Della-Terza were Guest Artists in the production, making and performing material to fit the show, intended for young audiences. Music: John Cimino, Richard Albagli, Jon Klibonoff. Grazia Della-Terza & DD performed in two series of presentations: the second at Broward Center for the Performing Arts, Fort Lauderdale, FL

??? premier- WILDWOOD: 33'. Commission: Linda Shapiro, New Dance Ensemble. Dancers: Jeffrey D. Annis, Michael Casper, Denise Gustafson, Lisa Powers, Robin Stiehm/Denise Ptacek. Music: Gavin Bryars, from Three Viennese Dancers. Costumes: Katherine Maurer. Premier: Minneapolis, MN, 1989.

October 5-16 – SKY EYE: 60’. Performances from October 9-15th. DD in Paris with company. Festival d'Automne, Paris. Company Dancers: Susan Blankensop, Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn, Michael La Salata, Jane Townsend, Bill Young. Set, Ghostbreath Mountain, & Costumes: Mimi Gross. Music: Andre Campra, from Messe de Requiem; Abess Hildegard of Bingam, from Gothic Voices; from Codex Chantilly, Airs de Cour du XIV siecle; Claude Debussy, Nuages; from Music of the Rain Forest Pygmies; Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, from Miss Negra sum; Josquindes Pres, from Missa Pange Lingua; from Drums of West Africa, Ritual Music of Ghana. Lighting: Carol Mullins.

October 19&20 – DD performs in Syracuse

November 30 - December 3, December 7-10 & 17 – WILDWOOD: 33'. Resetting on DD&D of piece made on New Dance Ensemble, Minneapolis, MN, 1988. Company Dancers: Susan Blankensop, Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn, Michael La Salata, Jane Townsend. Design: Mimi Gross. Music: Gavin Bryars, from Three Viennese Dancers. Lighting: Carol Mullins. Performed at the Douglas Dunn Studio, 541 Broadway, New York City

PEEPSTONE: 24'. Resetting on DD&D of piece made on Repertory Dance Theater, Salt Lake City, UT, 1987. Company Dancers: Susan Blankensop, Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn, Michael La Salata, Jane Townsend. Guests: Keith Chamberlain, Kristina Harvey-Stebbins, Volker J. Schmidt, Sophia Wong. Design: Mimi Gross. Music: Claude Debussy, Prelude #1; Bob Dylan, Going, Going, Gone; Thoinot Arbeau, Branle double; John Bartlet, Whither Runneth My Sweetheart; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Eine Kleine Gigue, K./KV 574; Claude Debussy, from Sonata for Flute, Viola & Harp; Christoph Willibald von Gluck, Dance of the Blessed Spirits from Orfeo ed Euridice. Lighting: Carol Mullins. Performed at the Douglas Dunn Studio, 541 Broadway, New York City

December 7-10 WILDWOOD and PEEPSTONE at DD’s studio at 541 west Broadway

December 17 WILDWOOD and PEEPSTONE at DD’s studio at 541 west Broadway

****[this is probably Solo Film & Dance, but not sure] Studio Theater, University of California, Riverside, January 4, 1991; Pyramid Center for Visual and Performing Arts, 214 North Goodman St., Rochester, NY, May 11, 1991; Denison University, Granville, OH, Feb. 17, 1995, altered version incorporating students.

1990

January 2-27 –  Minneapolis

March 27-11 Missoula MT makes DON”T CRY NOW on students

January 25 - HAOLE: Walker Art Center, Vineland Place, Minneapolis, MN

March 4-11, Douglas Dunn & Dancers in residence at University of Montana.

March 8, SKY EYE, Performance at Montana Theater at 8pm. 60’. Company Dancers: Susan Blankensop, Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn, Michael La Salata, Jane Townsend, Bill Young. Set, Ghostbreath Mountain, & Costumes: Mimi Gross. Music: Andre Campra, from Messe de Requiem; Abess Hildegard of Bingam, from Gothic Voices; from Codex Chantilly, Airs de Cour du XIV siecle; Claude Debussy, Nuages; from Music of the Rain Forest Pygmies; Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, from Miss Negra sum; Josquindes Pres, from Missa Pange Lingua; from Drums of West Africa, Ritual Music of Ghana. Lighting: Carol Mullins.

March 10 & 11 - BLOCS: 12'. At the invitation of Barbara Barker, Chair, University of Minnesota Dance Department. Made on and for the University of Minnesota's URepCo: Mary Crimi, Nicole Grandstrand, Kris Heruth, Gary Heyer, Mathey Janczewski, Maria Loisel, Megan Mayer, Susan McKenna, Kristine Mudd, Pam Prohofsky, Aislinn Robinson, Rosy Simas, Julieanne Sorensen, Kristin Waage, Laurie Wolfson. Costumes: Todd A. Studebaker after DD. Music: Tom Waits,Temptation; Gustav Mahler, from Symphony #2; Marianne Faithfull, Times Square. Performed at Rarig Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

March 10 - DD adjudicated at American College Dance Festival in Missoula, MT. Gala Concert American College Dance Festival, Missoula, Montana. University of Montana.

March 23 – HAOLE: Commons Theatre, Drew University, Madison, NJ

April 4-8 – Company in residence at Sweet Briar College, Virginia

April 24-May 2 – DD in Palo Alto, CA. Dances at the Sequoias April 28; solo at Stanford April 29

April 26-28, May 4-5 - ROSES: 8'. Commission: Linda Shapiro, New Dance, Minneapolis, MN. Made on & for Robin Stiehm & Luc Bal. Music: Sergei Rachmaninov, Preludes Opus 23, #2 & #4. First Performed at the Cricket Theater, Minneapolis, MN; man's part sometimes danced by Jeffrey D. Annis.

May 17-20 – DD in Denton, Texas. Teaches classes on 18,19, 20. Performs parts of HAOLE on the 19th

May 30–June 2 - DON'T CRY NOW: 11'. At the invitation of Amy Ragsdale, University of Montana Dance Department. Made for students of the University of Montana, Missoula, MT. Prepared March 1990, first performed at the Montana Theater, University of Montana, Missoula, May 30-June 2, 1990, with Jeffrey Bauer, Melinda Bessler, Savitri Durkee, Gillian Hull, Wendy Mauer, Amy Ragsdale (professor), Lori Read, Amy Sennett, Mick Servoss, Nicholas Yonko. The work remains in the repertory of The Montana Transport Company, and was performed by them, (excerpted) at The Open Space, Performing Arts Building, University of Montana, April 1, 1994, and at the Flathead High School Auditorium, Kalispell, MT, April 2, 1994, with Brooke Broadhurst, Pamela Morrison, Michelle Olson, Christopher Moll, Mary Molloy. Music: Marvin Gaye, I Heard It Through The Grapevine; The Chiffons, He's So Fine; Brenton Wood, The Oogum Boogum Song; The Shirelles, Will You Love Me Tomorrow. First performed by DD&D at Informal Performance, Bennington College, Bennington, VT, August 8, 1990, with Company Dancers: Susan Blankensop, Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn, Michael La Salata, Jane Townsend, Bill Young.

June 7-15 – DD serves on NEA company panel

June 19-28 – DD at Alta

July 3-4 – DD serves on NEA company panel

July 8-15 – Lisbon, Portugal : 11th performed outdoor show of SKY EYE, 12th did lecture demonstration and show. 60’. Company Dancers: Susan Blankensop, Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn, Michael La Salata, Jane Townsend, Bill Young. Set, Ghostbreath Mountain, & Costumes: Mimi Gross. Music: Andre Campra, from Messe de Requiem; Abess Hildegard of Bingam, from Gothic Voices; from Codex Chantilly, Airs de Cour du XIV siecle; Claude Debussy, Nuages; from Music of the Rain Forest Pygmies; Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, from Miss Negra sum; Josquindes Pres, from Missa Pange Lingua; from Drums of West Africa, Ritual Music of Ghana. Lighting: Carol Mullins.

July 16-29 – Arcata, California (Humbolt State University) DD residency

July 26 – HAOLE : John Van Duzer Theatre, Humbolt State University, Arcata, CA

July 27 – Showing of the class piece at Humbolt State University

July 29 – returned home

July 29- August 11 – Residency at Bennington College: making UNREST with Bill Cole and the Company

August 3&4 – DD went to D.C. for the NEA

August- Nation wide broadcast of THE MYTH OF MODERN DANCE on PBS

August 6 – Douglas’s mother dies, DD flies to California on the 10th and returned the 11th

August 12-24 – Went to Berlin, SKY EYE at the Academie der Kunst Hebbel Theater on 16, 17, and 18th. 60’. Company Dancers: Susan Blankensop, Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn, Michael La Salata, Jane Townsend, Bill Young. Set, Ghostbreath Mountain, & Costumes: Mimi Gross. Music: Andre Campra, from Messe de Requiem; Abess Hildegard of Bingam, from Gothic Voices; from Codex Chantilly, Airs de Cour du XIV siecle; Claude Debussy, Nuages; from Music of the Rain Forest Pygmies; Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, from Miss Negra sum; Josquindes Pres, from Missa Pange Lingua; from Drums of West Africa, Ritual Music of Ghana. Lighting: Carol Mullins.

On the 19th Sans Souci??

August 24 – went to Krakow, Poland

August 29 – returned to New York

September 21-23 – Performance in Atlanta on Saturday, September 22. The Arts Festival of Atlanta Piedmont Park.  Performed DON’T CRY NOW & ROSES.

October 17 – Wednesday, 12:15 pm performance of SKY EYE Performed atThe Continental Atrium, 180 Maiden Lane, New York, NY. Series: Free Fall. Underwritten by The Continental Corporation Foundation. Programmed by The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Admission Free.

October 21-28 – Paris? On the 27th DD saw William Forsythe’s Slingerland.

Fall - THE MYTH OF MODERN DANCE : 26'. Video-dance based on Haole (1988). Co-production: Susan Dowling, WGBH New Television Workshop; Alive From Off-Center. Performer: DD. Costumes, Direction & Editing: Charles Atlas. Shot in December, 1989. First shown: Fall 1990, on Public Television's Alive From Off-Center.

November 19 – RGU received $2,000 from Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation

November 20 – RGU received $500 from New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc.

November 28 – United States Information Service panel, Washington DC

December 13, 15, 17, 20, & 23 - UNREST: 59'. Company Dancers: Susan Blankensop, Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn, Michael La Salata, Jane Townsend, Bill Young. Design: Mimi Gross. Music: Bill Cole, playing live. Lighting: Carol Mullins. Commissioned by and performed at Dancespace, St. Mark's Church, New York City

1991

(DD & D managed by SoHo Booking. Anne Ronsenthal, Anne Bradner and Jessica Baker)

January 2-6 – University of California Riverside residency

January 4 – DD Master Class

January 5 – Performances of HAOLE. Invited by Susan Foster.

January 6- DD to San Francisco; meet Marge at David Ireland’s, meet Lana at David Ireland’s, meet Susan and Diane Frank

Jan 8 - Go to Blue Lake

Jan 13 – Go to D.C.

Jan 14 – Flew to NYC for a Group

January 15– February 2 – DD at American University teaching and creating piece on the students, Washington, D.C.

February 7-March 8 – DD teaching at New Dance Ensemble, Minneapolis, MN

February 3- March 9 – DD in Minneapolis, MN; University of Minnesota residency where Douglas created HURRY UP. Guest artist of Cowles Chair

March 9 – returned to NYC

March 16-24 – DD teaches for CanalDanse. Invited by Patricia Brouilly in Paris, France.

March 21-24 - LET'S GET BUSY: 14'. At the invitation of Ann McDonald, American University Dance Department. Made on and for students at American University, Washington, DC: Nancy Anwyll, Laura Dunaway, J.M. Rebudal, Cindy Rosenfeld, Timothy Willmot. Costumes: Barbara Tucker Parker after DD. Music: John Adams, from Shaker Loops. Lighting: Mark Anduss & Mark Simpson. Prepared January, performed at The American University Experimental Theater, Washington, DC.

March 31- April 7 – Portland, OR

April 4-7 - HURRY UP: 10'. At the invitation of Barbara Barker, Chair, University of Minnesota Dance Department. Made on and for dancers of the University of Minnesota's URepCo: Julie Anne Fugate, Nicole Grandstrand, Kris Heruth, Megan Mayer, Dawn Murray, Carey Thompson. Costumes: Barbara F. Norman after DD. Lighting: J.W. Layne. Score: vocalization by dancers. Performed at University Theater, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

May 9-12 – DD in Rochester NY, on the 10th teaches class at SUNY, on the 11th Douglas performs HAOLE at the Pyramid Arts Center. Director, Larry Champaux. Lighting: Carol Mullins.

May/June - RUBBLE DANCE, LONG ISLAND CITY : 21'. Film-dance. Company Dancers: Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn, Christopher Caines, Sam Keany, Laura Oguiza, Gwen Welliver. Produced by Elizabeth Powers, Rio Grande Union, Inc. Cameras: Rudy Burckhardt, Jacob Burckhardt, Christopher Sweet. Direction & Editing: Rudy Burckhardt. Costumes: Mimi Gross. Music: Bill Cole, Warren Smith, Robert Black. Music Editing: Rudy Burckhardt. Shot in Long Island City, Queens, NY

June 3-7 – DD on NEA PANEL IN DC

July 21-26 – DD on another NEA Panel

August 8-17 – DD residency at Bates College, Lewiston, MA.  Teaching and performance

August 10 – RUBBLE VARIATIONS: 11'. Solo for DD. Arrangement of material from the film, Rubble Dance: Long Island City (1991). Music: Soviet Army Chorus & Band, conducted by Colonel Boris Alexandrov. Costume: Mimi Gross. Performed at the Bates Summer Dance Festival, Schaeffer Theater, Bates College, Lewiston, MA. Invited by Laura Faure

August 22-23 – DD & D Company Auditions

September 30 – October 10 – Douglas and Grazia dance in the Great Dinosaur Rescue presented by Associated Solo Artists Inc., John Cimino-President. Two shows a day. Ft. Lauderdale, The Broward Center for Performing Arts.

October 11-21 – To Sao Paulo with Jean Guizerix and Wilfrde Piollet and Uli Gassmann includes: GONDOLAGES as part of performance. Chaconne choreography Jose Limon, Music: J.S Bach, Performer: Jean Guizerix. Temps de Baroque sections: Chaconne, Passe-peid. Choreography, Francine Lancelot. Music: Jean-Philipee Remau. Performer: Wilfrde Piollet. Poids de Sentur Choreography: Odile Rouquet, Music: Hector Berlioz from the poem “Spectacle de la Rose” by Theophile Gautire, Costume design: Ocimar Versolato, Performers: Jean Guizerix and Wilfrde Piollet.

October 18 & 19 - RUBBLE VARIATIONS: 11'. Solo for DD. Arrangement of material from the film, Rubble Dance: Long Island City. Music: Soviet Army Chorus & Band, conducted by Colonel Boris Alexandrov. Costume: Mimi Gross. Performed at the 21st Bienal International de Sao Paulo, Theatro Municipal de Sao Paulo, Brazil

October 23-24 – DD dances at the 20th Anniversary of The Kitchen, Invited by Robert Sterns

November 14-16 – DD flies to Portland, OR. HAOLE(?)

December 6&7 - DOUBLE BOND: 21'. At the invitation of Dante Del Guidice, Chair, Rhode Island College Dance Department. Made on and performed by the Rhode Island College Dance Company: Michelle Bastien, Tone Bernard, Shellie Carr, Karen Krikorian, Donna McGuire, Laura Newell, Becky Norris, Samantha Stevens, Laurie Walmsley. Costumes: DD & Armando Perez. Music: Robert Elam, Aleatory Montage. Lighting: Michael Giannitti. Premier: Roberts Auditorium, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI

December 20 – APAP Showcase under the auspices of Pentacle at Dance Space Project, St. Marks Church. Douglas Dunn, David Ireland collaboration (STUCCO MOON in progress)

December 22 at 3:00pm, part of Holiday Showcase – Pentacle. University Settlement House, 184 Eldridge Street, NYC, NY.

1992

January 18 – DD dances at First Festival Arts at University Settlement

February 9 – “Sundays at 3” Presentation, Dance Center at 92nd Street Y, NYC

****February 10,11, 15, 16, 17, 18, 21, 25 DD leads Improvisation Workshop [not sure where; pages show IL, & dates conflict with next entry]

February 23 – DD arrives in MN, company arrives the 25th

March 15 - 17 - STUCCO MOON: 65'. Original version, Minneapolis, MN. A work designed to incorporate non-Company dancers and performers. DD makes work on each group separately, then merges the groups in the process of making the final arrangement. Material from previous versions may be used in later ones. Co-commission: Linda Shapiro, New Dance Performance Lab; John Killacky, Walker Art Center. Company Dancers: Susan Blankensop, Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn, Barbara Grubel, Sam Keany, Kari Richardson. New Dance Dancers: Matthew Brown, Michael Casper, Michael Engel, Catherine Jhung, Krista Langberg, Jane Shockley, Robin Stiehm. Design & Music: David Ireland. Lighting: Carol Mullins. Performed at Norris Gymnasium, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.

March 18 – Company flies to DC

March 21 & 22 - STUCCO MOON: 59'. Washington, DC version. At the invitation of Carla Perlo, Director, Dance Place. Company Dancers: Susan Blankensop, Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn, Barbara Grubel, Sam Keany, Kari Richardson. Design & Music: David Ireland. Lighting: Carol Mullins. Performed at Dance Place, Washington, DC.

March 22 – showing of RUBBLE DANCE and NIGHT FANTASIES (both by Rudy Burckhardt)

March 23 – Company went to Kutztown, PA for TV taping at studio in Reading, PA under the auspices of James Carroll, and same day returned to NYC

April 16 – showing of RUBBLE DANCE, LONG ISLAND CITY, NY Premier. Triple Duo and Dancers, Buildings, and People in the Street. At Anthology Film Archives, NYC

April 19 – May 19 – DD to Portland

May 3 – Company joined DD for residency

May 8 – Informal showing of RUBBLE DANCE, LONG ISLAND CITY. By Rudy Burckhardt and DD at Shattuck Hall.

May 15-17 - STUCCO MOON: 61', plus 30' Prelude in, around, and outside the theater. Portland, OR version. At the instigation of Judy Patton, Dance Department, Portland State University. Dancers: Company: Raquel Aedo, Keith Chamberlain, Janet Charleston, Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn, Sam Keany, Kari Richardson. Student performers from various departments: Erenest L. Adams, Cassie Babcock, Robin La Rue Cannalla, Rinda Chambers, Holly Chronister, James Cosper,  Catherine Egan, Sigrid Faulkner, Ritsuko Fujiwara-Smith, Stormy Gale, Tara Gerttula, Sherri Gribble, Jeriel Hargett, Mark Hayes, Jeremy Laverdure, Mary Macy, Chrysta Masterson, Angela McDonell, Kristina Michaels, Darelene Muller, Mindy Orozco, Sandra Perkins, Jenny Reeves, Amy Rose, Kayla Scrivner, Lisa M. Thompson, Lisa Ventrella, Kris Vercouteren, Astrid Villegas, Colleen Wharton, Ann Whitesides. Music: PSU Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, Directed by Joel Bluestone: Mark Bond, Teresa Dickinson, Marc Fetchen, Eric Getter, Brad Hawkins, Dan Polidori, Julia Richter, Erika Sevetson, Bethel Spooner. Design: David Ireland, with the participation of Fine Arts students. Lighting: Carol Mullins, with the participation of Theater Arts students. Presented at the Lincoln Performance Hall, Portland State University, Portland, OR

June 4 – DD to Hong Kong under the auspices of HT Chen paired as teaching duo with Sarah Skaggs, Grazia there too

June 6 – Attended the premiere performance of the Guangdong Modern Dance Company in Guangzhou

June 6-20 – DD in Hong Kong. City Contemporary Dance Company. DD teaches class. Director Willy Tsao.

June 21-July 8 – DD to Taipei. Classes at the Taipei Dance Workshop. Ping Heng Director of Dance Forum-Tapei

July 9-16 – DD teaches at the International Dance Academy

July 29 & 30 - OCTOPUS: 10'. (200 balls) At the invitation of Sally Banes and Jed Wheeler, resetting of the 1974 work. Company Dancers: Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn, Sam Keany, Kari Richardson. Guest: Connor McTeague. Costumes, Text & Tape: DD. Performed at Megadance, Serious Fun, Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, New York City

August 2-12 – DD to CA

August 14-17 – Company auditions at studio

August 25-October 11 – College of Rhode Island, in Providence, RI. DD makes dance on students. DD travels to Minneapolis, MN. DD travels to Ft. Lauderdale, FL.

October 11-22 – DD to Sao Paulo with Jean Guizerix, Wilfried Piollet and Uli Gassmann

Sept 26 – DD and Grazia NYC to Greensboro, return on the 30th

September 27-29 - THE STAR THROWER: Commission to Associated Solo Artists, John Cimino, Director, by Stanley S. Gryskiewicz, the Center for Creative Leadership, for the 1992 International Creativity & Innovation Networking Conference. Grazia Della-Terza & DD were Guest Artists, making and performing material in collaboration with ASA. Concept & Script: John Cimino. Music: John Cimino, Richard Albagli, Jon Klibonoff, Diane Legros. Performed at the Conference, Greensboro, NC.

October 8 – DD dances in benefit for Harvest Works/Studio Pass at Thread Waxing Space, invited by Brian Karl

October 21 - LANDING: 27'. Company Dancers: Raquel Aedo, Keith Chamberlain, Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn, Barbara Grubel, Sam Keany, Kari Richardson. Music: Landing, written for DD&D by Steve Lacy. Costumes: Charles Atlas. Set: Uli Gassmann. Lighting, Carol Mullins. Premier: Dance Theater Workshop, New York City, with Steve Lacy and ensemble playing live.

RUBBLE DANCE: 20'. Arrangement for stage using material from the film Rubble Dance, Long Island City (1991). Company Dancers: Raquel Aedo, Keith Chamberlain, Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn, Barbara Grubel, Sam Keany, Kari Richardson. Music: Bill Cole, Warren Smith, Robert Black. Tape Mix: Jacob Burckhardt. Costumes: Mimi Gross. Lighting: Carol Mullins. Premier: Dance Theater Workshop

SKID: 26'. Revival of 1981 work. Company Dancers: Raquel Aedo, Keith Chamberlain, Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn, Barbara Grubel, Sam Keany, Kari Richardson. Music: John Driscoll, Fishs Eddy. Costumes: Mimi Gross. Lighting: Carol Mullins after Patrick O'Rourke. First performance of revival, Dance Theater Workshop, New York City

November 1-11 – DD sets piece on dancers at Rhode Island College, Providence, RI.

November 15-23 - Festival D’Autumn. LANDING: European Premiere. Music: Steve Lacy (played live) ; SKID: 81’ (originally made for Autumn Festival) Music John Driscoll. Design: Mimi Gross; RUBBLE DANCE: European Premiere, Music: Bill Cole, Robert Black. Design: Uli Gassman (design mistakenly contributed to Mimi Gross on the initial promotional materials). Dancers: Keith Chamberlain, Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn, Barbara Grubel, Sam Keany, Kari Richardson. Musicians: Steve Lacy - soprano saxophone, Angelo Frascarelli – conductor, Richard Al Vagli percussion, Michael Canonico –trumpet, Jon Klibonoff – piano, Michael Morelli – bass, Peter Zummo –trombone.

November 4 – Company arrives in Paris

LANDING TOUR

November 17-22 – Douglas in France/ musicians names: Jon Klibonoff, Peter Zummo, Richard Albagli, Angelo Frascarelli, Micheal Canonico, Steve Lacey, Micheal Morelli

November 22 – Flew Paris to Charleroi, Belgium SKID ; RUBBLE DANCE ; LANDING

December 2 – Company returns to NYC

December 18 – LANDING (excerpt). Pentacle Showcase at Danspace Project at St.Mark’s Church, Music: Steve Lacy, Costumes: Charles Atlas, Lights: Carol Mullins, Dancers: Raquel Aedo, Keith Chamberlian, Grazia Della-Terza, DD, Barbara Grubel, Sam Keany, Kari Richardson.

1993

(DD & D managed by Carol Blanco)

January 24-29 – DD in Krakow and co.

January 30- February 4 – DD to Berlin

February 8 – DD in Champaign, IL to begin residency at University of Illinois

March 3 – DD flies Champaign to New York

April 4 – EMPTY REEL : 4'. Commissioned by Renee Wadleigh as solo for herself. Music: Traditional Scottish. Costume: Renee Wadleigh after DD. Lighting: Jim Janninck. Performed by DD as part of a DD&D Lecture Demonstration at the 92nd St. Y, New York

ROCK WALK : 16'. At the instigation of Renee Wadleigh, made on & for graduate students at the University of Illinois: Music: Yaz Shehab. Costumes: DD. Performed by Douglas Dunn & Dancers as part of Lecture Demonstration at the 92nd St. Y, New York City

April 12 – EMPTY REEL: 4'. Commissioned by Renee Wadleigh as solo for herself. Music: Traditional Scottish. Costume: Renee Wadleigh after DD. Lighting: Jim Janninck. Performed by DD at New Dance Alliance Performance Mix, Dia Center for the Arts, New York City

April 16 & 17 - ROCK WALK: 16'. At the instigation of Renee Wadleigh, made on & for graduate students at the University of Illinois: Stuart Gold, Anne Lall, An-Li Su, Olga Tragant, Ming-Lung Yang. Music: Yaz Shehab. Costumes: DD. Prepared in February, performed at the Krannert Center's Studio Theater, Urbana, IL

April 22 – EMPTY REEL: 4'. Commissioned by Renee Wadleigh as solo for herself. Music: Traditional Scottish. Costume: Renee Wadleigh after DD. Lighting: Jim Janninck. Performed by DD at the Community Education Center, Philadelphia, PA.

May 1 – DD flies NY to San Francisco; At The Djerassi Institute, DD was there until 27

May 29 - DD & Grazia to Melbourne, Australia

May 28-30 – ROCK WALK: Performed by Douglas Dunn & Dancers at the Merce Cunningham Studio, 55 Bethune St., New York City

June 30- July 3 - DANCE FOR A PAST TIME: 64'. Company Dancers: Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn. Former Company Dancer: John McLauglin. Special Guest Performers: David Ireland, Noel Sheridan. Other Dancers: Gillian Alexi, Deanne Butterworth, Elaeth Davies, Paul Gazzolla, Pascale Hanrion, Fanci Hitanaya, Hilton Jaggart, Felicity Kinsella, Elissa Meyer-Thomas, Sue Peacock, Renata Smenda, Cecille Veldhoven, Kathy Vogiatskis, Sarah Ward, Fiona Watson. Design: David Ireland. Music: Lindsey Vickery & Johnathan Mustard, playing live. Lighting: Steve Wickham. At the instigation of John McLaughlin, commissioned by and performed at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Noel Sheridan, Director, Perth, Western Australia. *During the Perth time DD made TANGLING on students there

July 5 – DD & G fly to the middle of Australia to visit Uluru. It is still legal to climb to the top. We do so.

July 11 – Sydney to Denpasar/Bali

July 27 – Sydney to Nadi

August 2 – DD flies to San Francisco

August 9 – DD flies to Seattle/Bellingham

August 23 – DD flies St. Louis to NYC

September 9-19 – DD reset PULCINELLA

October 3-11 – DD in Portland, OR for residency at Portland State University with company: Grazia Della-Terza, Sam Keany, Keith Chamberlain, Raquel Aedo, Kari Richardson, Janet Charleston, and Carol Mullins as lighting designer and Steve Lacy as musician.

Oct 4 – DD technique class

Oct 5 – DD technique class and showing of Myth of Modern Dance and Rubble Dance Long Island City

Oct 6 – DD Lecture to Portland City Club

Oct 7 – Company Lecture dem., and Steve taught Jazz workshop

Oct 8 & 9 – Performance in Lincoln Hall: RUBBLE DANCE, LANDING, SKID

October 13 - EMPTY REEL: 4'. Commissioned by Renee Wadleigh as solo for herself. Music: Traditional Scottish. Costume: Renee Wadleigh after DD. Lighting: Jim Janninck. Prepared January, first performed at the Krannert Center, Urbana, IL.

October 16 – DD fly NYC to Bordeaux France

October 31 – DD flies Paris to Washington D.C., to give lecture in Charlottesville VA at University of Virginia. Invited by Kate Nesbitt

November 2-6 - TANGLING: 12'. At the invitation of John McLaughlin. Dancers, students of Edith Cowan University. One cast: Sela Kiek, Shelley Mardon, Joanna Pollitt, Marcus Reid, Vivienne Rogis, Kathy Vogiatskis, Fiona Watson, Sascha Wilson. Another cast: Deanne Butterworth, Billie Cook, Sarah Cooke, Fiona Druskovich, Fanci Hitanaya, Alison Martin, Catherine Post, Cecile Veldhoen. Music: David Pye. Decor: Michael Betts. Costumes: Felipe Reynolds. Prepared in June, performed at Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia. DD not present.

November 1-15 – DD returns to Bordeaux

November 12,14,16-18 - PULCINELLA  variations: 29'. Resetting of 1980 original, omitting several sections, on the Grand Theatre de Bordeaux. Dancers: Emmanuelle Grizot, Gilles Martin, Nathalie Anglard, Helene Ballon, Carole Dion, Christelle Lara, Stefania Sandrin, Valerie Simmonet, Michele Verdini, Karym Amellal, Salvatore Gagliardi, Gael Lambiotte, Christopher Nicita, Jorg Rauch, Loris Zambon. Music: Igor Stravinsky, Pulcinella. Costumes: Norbert Schmucki after Douglas Dunn. Lighting: Jean-Pascal Pracht. Performed at the Grand Theatre, Bordeaux, France. Director: Alain Lombard. On a show with Danses concertantes, choreography: Ted Brandsen. Soiree Stravinsky. Le Sacre de Printemps by Erich Walter

December 18 – 4:30-5:30 pm, 541 Broadway Loft Showing and Pentacle Showcase.

1994

January 6-9 – 2 performances at Pace Downtown Theater. RUBBLE DANCE mixed program for Urban Artworks. Sponsored by Mary Bruce Blackburn of the American Dance Ensemble. Pace Theater in the Schimmel Center.

January 27-30 - STUCCO MOON: 70'. New York version. Company Dancers: Raquel Aedo, Janet Charleston, Keith Chamberlain, Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn, Sam Keany, Kari Richardson. Special Guest: Amy Ragsdale. Guests, members of the Harkness Workshop Series for Professional Dancers at the 92nd St. Y: Dorothee Caan, Kande Culver, Donna Graham, Janine Gutheil, Maja Lorkovic, Maria G. Ocanto, Michele Oppliger, Penny Price, Margaret Whalley. Costumes, set & sound: David Ireland. Lighting: Carol Mullins. Performed at LaMama, New York City

April 30 - DANCE FOR NEW DANCE: 6'. Video-dance, made on the occasion of New Dance's Going-Out-Of-Business Celebration. Company Dancers: Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn. Music: Noel Quinlan, from Middle Kingdom. Camera: Grazia Della-Terza. Sent to Minneapolis for the event.

June 17-19 – Widman Marathon retreat

July 18-22 & 25-29 - DISAPPEARANCES: 60'. Barely visible outdoor dancing for New York City. Company Dancers: Grazia Della-Terza, Kari Richardson, Douglas Dunn. Guests: Marie Baker-Lee, Dorothee Caan, Maja Lorkovic, Alice MacIntyre, Rachel Odoroff, Michele Oppliger, Mary Seidman, Margaret Whalley, Kriota Willberg, Rebekah Windmiller. Presented Noon Hours, next to the Marine Midland Bank at Broadway between Cedar & Liberty, and on the Chase Manhattan Bank Plaza at William & Cedar.

August 2-15 – DD at Alta, Grazia joining on the 10th.

Fall – DD teaching at Steinhardt NYU

November 3 & 4th – DD residency at the University of North Carolina, Greensborough, teaching and performance.  Follow this DD drove to Ashville, NC to visit Ethan

November 19 – DD danced in benefit at St.Marks church: Danspace Projects presents Chance Encounters.  WORK-IN-PROGRESS. Choreographer: Douglas Dunn. Performers: Grazia Della Terza, Douglas Dunn, Leonard Louissy, Kari Richardson.

November 28 – DD improv at Judson as a benefit for the church

December 18 - CARACOLE (excerpts): Choreography: Douglas Dunn. Dancers: Grazia Della-Terza, Kari Richardson, Lennard Louisy, Douglas Dunn. SoHo Booking 1994-1995 Roster Showcase at The Kitchen, December 18, 1994.

1995

January 7/8, 10-15, 17-20 - CARACOLE: 50'. Company Dancers: Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn, Lennard Louisy, Kari Richardson. Costumes and Design: Mimi Gross. Lighting: Carol Mullins. Music: Richard K. Walton & Robert W. Lawson, Eastern/Central Birding by Ear; (trio) Atrium Musicae de Madrid, Grogorio Paniagua, Musique de la Grece Antique; (Kari’s Solo) Flute Solo from Apurimac, Kingdom of the Sun, Peru's Inca Heritage, recorded in Peru by David Lewiston; (Grazia & Douglas): Wasawasa Ni Dodomo, Wai-Koula Kei Tavua, South Pacific Recording Limited (from Fiji); (Grazia’s Solo): Krivo Horo, A Harvest, A Shepherd, A Bride), Village Music of Bulgaria, Dances of the World, Music from the Nonesuch Explorer Series; (Finale): Llegada, Los Chiriguanos of Paraguay/Gaurani Songs & Dances, Dances of the World, Music from the Nonesuch Explorer Series. First performed at the Douglas Dunn Studio, 541 Broadway, New York City, two shows each day on the two weekends.

January 30 – At the invitation of Gill Wright Miller, Douglas begins residency at Denison University. Residency finished on February 25.

February 17 - LOST IN LIGHT: 19'. At the invitation of Gill Wright Miller, commissioned by the Dance Department, Denison University, Granville, Ohio. Dancers: Michael Estanich, Sandy Mathern-Smith (faculty), Emmely Muehlhauser, Martha Mulligan, Cheyanne Paris. Costumes: DD. Music: Keith Fleming. Lighting: Fred Kraps. First performed, enmeshed in Haole, at Denison University. Was part of residency at the university

March 29 – Eisner Lubin Auditorium NYU Lobe Student Center, danced to Five Village Scenes by Dinu Ghezzo as an informal audition for the NYU Summer Program. Dancers: Douglas Dunn, Grazia Della-Terza, Teresa Heiland

April 13-16 - ROSES: Resetting of Minneapolis version (1990), on Kari Richardson and Lennard Louisy, with new section for Grazia Della-Terza & DD to Prelude in C Sharp Minor, Opus 23, #2 & #4, by Sergei Rachmaninov, danced between the two original sections. Costumes: Grazia Della-Terza & DD. Lighting: David Herrigel. Danced at PS122 on mixed program with Tina Croll, Kenneth King, and Wendy Perron. The updated version includes an added section prelude by Rachmaninov, where Grazia and Douglas danced duet. The last piece on the program was improvised piece by DD, Tina, Kenneth, and Wendy entitled LAST DANCE.

April 18 – DD flies from NYC to Seattle

April 30 – DD flies from Seattle to Missoula, MT

May 2-4 – Montana Transport Company/Artistic Director Amy Ragsdale, performed in the Montana Theater; performance included DON’T CRY NOW (1990) BY DD, Cast included: Brooke Broadhurst, Michelle Olson, Amy Ragsdale, Renata Godfrey, Mary Molloy Music: Marvin Gaye, I Heard It Through The Grapevine; The Chiffons, He's So Fine; Brenton Wood, The Oogum Boogum Song; The Shirelles, Will You Love Me Tomorrow. (earned $1,535)

May 3-6 – DD adjudicated at American College Dance Festival in Missoula, MT. On May 4 & 6 taught technique class as part of ACDFA festivities

May 7 – DD returns to NYC

May 30 – DD flies NYC - Washington, D.C., sits on National Endowment Panel

June 9 – DD flies Washington D.C. - Columbus, OH to be judge at dance festival

June 12 – Columbus to NYC

June 17/18 – DD attends Dance Theater Workshop Retreat at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Confronting the Model, NYC

June 29 - July 16 – NYU Music and Dance in Pisa, Italy.DD arrived on July 9, Performed at the Cortile della Sapienza on July 16. Dance students: Maria Di Paola, Ciane Fernandes, Jeoung-Nam Park, Tien Hwa Yee. Part of residency with NYU

July 7 – Company show at Central Park Summer Stage. After post-show dinner, saying goodbye, DD falls, sprain ankle. Next day, a Sunday, discovers passport has expired. Gets, one, dragging leg up to Rockerfeller Center while Grazia packs whatever.

July 8 – DD to Pisa for NYU Summer Program. July 16, show in Cortile della Sapienza. July 17- August 1, program continues in Lucca. July 31, show in Teatro Poliziano, Montepulciano. Grazia arrives, she and DD drive around: Ravenna, Ancona, Assisi, Gubbio, Arezzo, Urbino, Orvieto. Rome. August 14, DD to NYC

August 29-31 – DD on National Endowment for the Arts Panel

September 5-10 – DD to LA to do business for extended family

September - December – Douglas teaches Open Structures at NYU

October 18-26 – Douglas teaches at Randolph-Macon Woman’s College under auspices of Pamela Riesenhoover, Ashland Virginia

October 27 & 28 - NYU Faculty Concert at Fredrick Loewe Theater, performed ROSES (excerpt) 1990/95

October 30-November 16 – DD at Williams College works with Joe Chaikin on FIRMAMENT.

November 18-21 – DD goes to Maryland under auspices of Park and Planning Commission.  Panel for dance competition with Murray Lewis and Jennifer Dunning

November 24 - December 2 – FIRMAMENT: directed by Joseph Chaikin, a work in progress for which Douglas was a choreographic advisor; at LaMama Theater, NYC. For 2/3 weeks leading up to this, Douglas was working at Williams College with the group.

November 14 – Douglas teaches improvisation called “Dancing as the Sun Goes Down”, at the 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Center, NYC

November 18-23 – Douglas sat on the Choreographers’ Showcase Panel with Murray Lewis and Jennifer Dunning. Under the auspices of Carolyn Tate. Maryland.

November 21 - Masterclass by DD at Dorothy Madden Studio at the University of Maryland, Dance Dept.

November 27 – Movement Research at Judson Church, collaborative improvisation, LAST DANCE. Dancers: Tina Croll, Douglas Dunn, Kenneth King, Wendy Perron

December 7-10 – H.T. Chen’s Newsteps Series at the Mulberry Street Theater for which Douglas was a judge.

December 26 – DD by train, Boston to NY

1996

January 18-25 – Grazia & DD honeymoon at Treasure Beach in Jamaica.

April 11 - RETURN DANCE: 10'. Dancers: Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn, Kari Richardson. Design: Mimi Gross. Music: Joshua Fried. Lighting: Carol Mullins. This dance was made for the Princeton Alumni Concert at McCarter Theater, Princeton, NJ

April 12 – RETURN DANCE:  presented at Dia, NYC, as part of concert produced by Tina Croll. This trio was later integrated in slightly altered form into Spell for Opening the Mouth of N.

(Did not go to summer program in Pisa, Italy)

July – DD teaches at the Instituto de Belles Artes, Mexico City, Mexico

November 7-19 - SPELL FOR OPENING THE MOUTH OF N : 75'. Collaboration with composer Joshua Fried. Dancers: Amy Baker, Janet Charleston, Derek Clifford, Georgia Corner, Grazia Della-Terza, Mark Drahozal, Douglas Dunn, Lennard Louisy, Edmund C. Melville, Kari Richardson. Singer/Actors: Hope Clark, Paula Cole, Dina Emerson, Lesley Farlow, Lisa Karrer, Gretchen Krich, Randolph Curtis Rand, Laurence Rawlins, Sheridan Roberts, Marlene Tholl, Susan Thompson, Jordana Toback, Claude Wampler. Text: Ruth Margraff. Design: Mimi Gross. Lighting: Carol Mullins. Each evening six of the singer/actors performed, plus Susan and Claude. First presented at The Kitchen, New York City

November 14 – DD teaches workshop, “Dancing As The Sun Goes Down” at the 92nd street Y, Harkness Dance Center

1997

February 23 - FAMILIAL FETCHES' USUFRUCTUARY FOOTFALLS: Solo for Douglas Dunn. Sound Collage by Douglas Dunn: Mozart, Mahler, traditional song sung by John McCormack.  Performed for Susan Leites Memorial Service, Parish Hall, St. Mark's Church, NYC

March 12 - FAMILIAL FETCHES' USUFRUCTUARY FOOTFALLS: Solo for Douglas Dunn. Sound Collage by Douglas Dunn: Mozart, Mahler, traditional song sung by John McCormack. Presented at Dixon Place, NYC

April 2 - FAMILIAL FETCHES' USUFRUCTUARY FOOTFALLS: Solo for Douglas Dunn. Sound Collage by Douglas Dunn: Mozart, Mahler, traditional song sung by John McCormack. Presented atMother, NYC, April 2, 1997. Includes phrase first danced for his mother's memorial service, 1991,

April 9 - FAMILIAL FETCHES' USUFRUCTUARY FOOTFALLS: Solo for Douglas Dunn. Sound Collage by Douglas Dunn: Mozart, Mahler, traditional song sung by John McCormack.  Performed at Edwin Denby Memorial Service, St. Mark's Church, NYC

April 28 - NYU presents the NYU New Music and Dance Ensemble. Monday, April 28, 1997 NYU Frederick Loewe Theater. Dr. Esther Lamneck, dirctor. DD, choreographer.

June 13-15 -RIDDANCE: 12'. At the invitation of H.T. Chen; DD used as inspiration the Five Element Theory of Chinese Medicine. Dancers: Janet Charleston (Metal), Grazia Della-Terza (Earth), Heather Dougherty (Fire), Douglas Dunn (Water), Kari Richardson (Wood). Sound collage by Jacob Burckhardt. Premier at Taipei Theater, NYC.

Note: Janet Charleston adopted her section, “Metal,” as a solo she performed on her own in non-DD+D shows: SEAD in Salzburg, Austria (1998); Cunningham Faculty Concert, NYC, (2003); Dancers Responding to Aids Benefit at Danspace Project (2004); The Provincetown Art Association and Museum (2004); the Playhouse Theater at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Urbana, IL (2006);  Douglas Dunn’s Salon Solos Etc. (2016); El Centro Cultural Los Talleres, Mexico City (2017). Janet also commissioned a 13-minute solo from DD, “RV”, performed as follows: the Cunningham Faculty Concert, premier (2004); University Settlement, NYC (2004); the Playhouse Theater at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Urbana, IL (2005); Ailey Citigroup Theater, NYC (2004); Douglas Dunn’s Salon Solos Etc. (2016); El Centro Cultural Los Talleres, Mexico City (2007).

June 20 – Grazia & DD NY to Zurich, 2 nights, to Brienz, 22-26, to Kanderstag, to Stresa, Lago Maggiore, to Pisa for NYU Summer Program. July 21 to NYC.

July 12 & 20 - NYU Summer Program in Pisa. New Music and Dance Ensemble, Performed on July 12 & 20 Location: Cortile della Sapienza, Pisa, Italy. DD teaches and performs.  Invited by Artistic Director: Esther Lamneck

August 13 - SPELL FOR OPENING THE MOUTH OF N: 75'. Collaboration with composer Joshua Fried. Dancers: Amy Baker, Janet Charleston, Derek Clifford, Georgia Corner, Grazia Della-Terza, Mark Drahozal, Douglas Dunn, Lennard Louisy, Edmund C. Melville, Kari Richardson. Singer/Actors: Hope Clark, Paula Cole, Dina Emerson, Lesley Farlow, Lisa Karrer, Gretchen Krich, Randolph Curtis Rand, Laurence Rawlins, Sheridan Roberts, Marlene Tholl, Susan Thompson, Jordana Toback, Claude Wampler. Text: Ruth Margraff. Design: Mimi Gross. Lighting: Carol Mullins. Presented at the Damrosh Park Bandshell under the auspices of Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, New York, NY.

September 8 - PYRRHIC PYROLA: 25’. Solo for Douglas Dunn. Sequence of bits from earlier work. Music by Joshua Fried, recorded bits from Spell. Performed at Talking Dancing Festival, Dansens Hus, Stockholm.

September 11 – Performance of LAZY MADGE. Remake by DD working August 16 to September 11, using choreographic process of the original (1976/77). Presented at Talking Dancing Festival, Dansens Hus, Stockholm, Sweden.

September 20, 21: Two site-specific works for fifteen dancers, first titled RIVEN, at baseball field at 8th Avenue & Leroy Street, NYC; The second titled FLINCH at Henoch Gallery in Soho. Original music by Joshua Fried. Part of the Downtown Arts Festival.

September 26 & 27 - As part of NYU Steinhardt Distinguished Faculty Concert, RIDDANCE: 12', as premiered on June 13 at Taipei Theater.

September 30 - October 3 WINDOW WORKS: an evolving performance/installation conceived and directed by Caterina Bartha in collaboration with others. Caterina and Douglas improvised in a store front window from noon to 1:00PM @ 135 W. 42nd NYC

November 17 – 8pm. Movement Research at Judson Church Presents: Meriwether Loofe. Choreographed and performed by the following: Amy Cox, Laura Staton, Douglas Dunn, David Alan Harris, Katherine Longstreth, Andrew Marcus, RoseAnne Spradlin, Kriota Willberg (with performers Bob Sikoryak and Roderick Murray).

December 7 - IFNY - 6th Annual Improvisation Festival of New York. Curated by Julie Carr and Sondra Loring. Sunday, December 7, 3pm DD and Danny Lepkoff at 92nd Street YWCA.

December 23 – DD & Grazia fly NYC to Eureka/Arcata

December 28 – Grazia flies Eureka to Bellingham, WA

1998

January 4 – Grazia Bellingham to NY

January 9 – DD Eureka to Orange County, CA

January 10-13 - DD attends ACDFA Orange Coast College.

January 14 – DD Orange County to NY

March 3,10,17,24 – DD leads Workshops at 92nd Street Y, NYC. Present at one or more: Caterina Bartha, Virginia Collins, Tina Desplazes, Tsofia Gal, Carolyn Gonzales, Sue Hogan, Patrick Hughes, Isadoraite, Eun Jung, Alice MacIntyre, Agamemnon Otero, Michiyo Sato, Melissa Sylvester, Scott Waldron, Nathan Whiting, & others (Tina, Grazia, Marie, Stephen, Evangelia, Terrence.

March 14 - American Museum of Craft - Cocca Mocca Excerpt - 5 on 5th.. TO DO

March 31 – Danspace at 541 event?

April 23-26 – Douglas flies to Charleston and back

April 30, May 1-3 - COCCA MOCCA: 60’. Dancers: Trio 1 - Douglas Dunn, Guadalupe Martinez, Le Minh Tam. Trio 2 - Brooke Davila, Monica Olsson, Michelle Olson. Trio 3 - Terrence Brown, Georgia Corner, Bill Hedberg. Trio 4 - Stefanie Bland, Janet Charleston, Edmund Melville. Walk-on - Grazia Della-Terza. Music: Bill Cole, Esther Lamneck, Warren Smith, & Gamelan Son of Lion: Sasha Bogdanowitsch, Darryhl Gregory, Lisa Karrer, David Simons. Set: Mimi Gross. Costumes: Charles Atlas. Lighting: Carol Mullins. Commissioned by Laurie Uprichard, Danspace Project/St Mark’s Church, NYC. Performed in the round at the Church.

May 4- NYU presents the NYU New Music and Dance Ensemble. Monday, May 4, 1998 NYU Frederick Loewe Theater. Dr. Esther Lamneck, director; DD, choreographer; Karen Lykes, mezzo-soprano.

June 1-18 – DD teaches Technique Mondays through Thursdays at 541

June 26 - July 18 – NYU Summer Program in Pisa. New Music and Dance Ensemble, Performed on July 17, 1999. Location: Cortile della Sapienza, Pisa, Italy. DD teaches and performs. Invited by Artistic Director: Esther Lamneck

August 17 – DD NYC to Reno

August 31 – DD Reno to Bellingham w/Grazia

September 15 – DD & Grazia Bellingham to NYC

September 18 – DD receives Bessie Award for Lifetime Achievement

October 2&3 - THIGMOTAXIS: 12’. Dancers: Duo 1 - Alice MacIntyre & Nathan Whiting. Duo 2 - Grazia Della-Terza & Jared Wootan. Duo 3 - Michelle Olson & Douglas Dunn. Music: J.S. Bach, Partita no. 1 in B flat major, played by Maggie Cole, Virgin Classics Ltd. London. Presented at the Distinguished Faculty Dance Concert, Frederic Loewe Theater, 35 West 4th Street, NYC

October 12- DD consulting with Bonnie Brooks

October 25- DD consulting with Elizabeth Powers

November 26 – DD visits Bill Bakaitis with Steve Shaw, and returned to NY on the 29th

December 5 - KICK: 5’. Dancers: Marie Baker-Lee, Michelle Olson, Monica Olsson, Beth Simons. Music played live by Mark Dziuba. Presented at Dancers Responding to AIDS Benefit, St. Mark’s Church, NYC

December 13 – DD teaches class for the Wellspring Project

December 18 – DD to Arlington MA, returns on19th

1999

Benefits for Dancers Responding to Aids: Collaborative work with choreographer/dancer Sara Rudner, musicians Lisa Karrer & Stella Chiu. One at Judson Church, NYC, another at SUNY Purchase. Dates unknown.

Feb 5 – DD auditing the Miami Ballet

Feb 7-11 – DD in Los Angeles consulting with Bonnie Brooks

Feb 11 - DD flies to San Francisco, sees San Francisco Ballet

Feb 16-28 – DD residence in Stockholm working on LAZY MADGE with dancers of Cristina Caprioli?

April 21 - UNTITLED: 10’. Dancers: Wellspring Project - Lara Bujold, Georgia Corner, Maryse Jacobs, Gillian Lipton, Rachel Margolis, Joy McEwen, Jessica Moss, Beth Simons. Presented at Henoch Gallery, 80 Wooster Street, NYC

May 3 - NYU presents the NYU New Music and Dance Ensemble. Monday, May 3, 1999, NYU Frederick Loewe Theater. Dr. Esther Lamneck, director; DD, choreographer.

May 13-16 - LAZY MADGE: 40’-53’. Dancers: Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn, Petra Fredrikzon, Richard Gonzalez, Helena Hultgren, Ann Kallblad, Le Minh Tam, E. Christopher Melville, Maria Ohman, Michelle Olson, Monica Olsson, Beth Simons, David Woodberry. Costume consultant, Charles Atlas. Lighting Design: Carol Mullins. Presented by Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church, NYC

June 4 - LAZY MADGE: 10’. Dancers: Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn, Le Minh Tam, Monica Olson, Beth Simons. Music played live by Lisa Karrer and Stella Chiu. Presented at Dancer’s Responding to AIDS Benefit at PepsiCo Theater on SUNY campus, Purchase, NY

June 8 – DD & Grazia fly NYC to Reno

June 11 – Ethan and Karen fly from Charleston to Reno

June 19 – E & K return to Charleston, DD & G return to NY

June 26 - July 18 – DD in Pisa, Italy for NYU Summer Program Music & Dance NYU Summer Program in Pisa. New Music and Dance Ensemble. Location: Cortile della Sapienza, Pisa, Italy. DD teaches and performs. Invited by Artistic Director: Esther Lamneck

August 4 – DD flies NYC to Bellingham

August 17 – DD flies Bellingham to NYC

September 25 - 100 WALKS 1: 10’. Dancers: Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn. Music played live by Lisa Karrer and David Simons. Presented at the Distinguished Faculty Dance Concert, Frederic Loewe Theater, NYC

November 2 - 100 WALKS 2: 5’. Dancers: Grazia Della-Terza and Douglas Dunn. Performed for the Memorial Service of Rudy Burckhardt. Music performed by GDT (song & dulcimer) & DD (song & ukulele). Rubble Dance costumes by Mimi Gross. Presented at Grand Hall, Cooper Union, NYC

November 5-7 - TRISKELION: 16’. Dancers of The Wellspring Project: Julia Baumgarten, Jacques Burgering, Lara Bujold Clouden, Georgia Corner, Valerie Green, Bruce Jones, Gillian Lipton, Rachel Margolis, Joy McEwen, Jessica Moss, Beth Simons. Music: Lisa Karrer in collaboration with David Simons. Text: Sappho, arranged by L. Karrer. Lighting design: Robert Engstrom. Presented at The Theatre of the Riverside Church, NY

November 13 - 100 WALKS 3: 3’. Dancers: Grazia Della-Terza and Douglas Dunn. Performed for Food-for-Thought, curator, Mark Haim. Music performed on maracas by GDT & DD. Presented at Danspace Project/St. Marks Church, NYC

November 14 - 100 WALKS 4: 5’. Dancers: Grazia Della-Terza and Douglas Dunn. Performed for Mad Alex Arts Benefit (Elena Alexander, director). Music performed by GDT (song) & DD (ukulele w/song). Presented at The Construction Company, NYC

November 18-21 - BACKSCATTER: 8’. Dancers of the Washington Square Repertory Dance Company: Robin Conley, Christina DiMichele, Graceann Dorse, Elizabeth Douglas, Sarah Galender, Liz Harler, Mei Chian Lim, Missy Mitchell, Lynne Schlesinger, Patricio Suarez, Tom Sullivan, Cherise Taylor. Rehearsal assistant: Beth Simons. Presented at the New York University’s Frederick Loewe Theater, NYC

December 6 - NYU presents the NYU New Music and Dance Ensemble. Monday, December 6, 1999, NYU Frederick Loewe Theater. Dr. Esther Lamneck, director; DD, choreographer; Roger Hanna, Lighting; Chianan Yen, Sound; Stacie Baker, costume design; Kim Baker, movement director.

2000

January 1 - 100 WALKS 5: 4’. Dancers: Grazia Della-Terza & Douglas Dunn. Performed at The Poetry Project’s New Year’s 2000 Marathon Reading, St. Mark’s Church, NYC

January 2 - 100 WALKS 6: 4’. Dancers: Grazia Della-Terza & Douglas Dunn. Performed at Anneliese Widman’s Group New Year’s Celebration, at the Rosen’s apartment, 86th Street, NYC

April 13 & 14 - THE POOL, SIDE-EFFECTS, MAIN DRAG: At the invitation of John McLaughlin, DD made, on students of Sam Houston State College, fragments that were integrated into a street event titled Arrival Town. The overall work was arranged by John McLauglin, and included bits by a number of choreographers. The Pool is the third in a series of Performance Exhibits by DD that includes 101 (1974) and Performance Exhibit #2 (1980). Side-Effects consisted of phrases to be performed in the narrow alleys along the main street. Main Drag was a group section to be performed in an open space. Performed on Main Street in downtown Huntsville, Texas

April 15 - PANOLAR : 15’ Dancers: Tan Temel, Aysegul Guryuksel, Faruk Kurukaya, Maral Ceranoglu, Mihran Tomasyan, Ilke Kilic, Ismet Muftuoglu, Oktay Oy, Bedia Okur, Ipek Dolaner, Eray Dolaner, Eray Gitgel, Ceren Ozkara, Gozde Begecaslan, Didem Kartay. Performed at Anadolu University, Istanbul, Turkey

March 17- April 29 – Residency in Istanbul, at Mimar Sinan University invited by Sebnem Aksan; worked at Yildiz Teknik University under Geyvan McMillen. Evaluation Report below:

     Grazia Della-Terza and I were hired to travel to Istanbul to work at Mimar Sinan University and at Yildiz Technical University in their respective Dance Departments.  We were to teach Modern Dance classes in Technique, Composition & Improvisation, to introduce various forms of body therapy, and to make a dance for each group.

Through the two directors, Sebnem Aksan at Mimar Sinan, and Geyvan McMillan at Yildiz, had collaborated in choosing to invite us, they had not by the time of our arrival agreed on how to apportion our time.  Both wanted as much as they could have.  With the help of the Consulates’s May Ann Whitten as mediator, we worked out a schedule agreeable to all, and were able to offer both groups of students considerable exposure to our work.  The two programs depend to a great extent on guest teachers.  A longer stint in either or both of the departments would have been rewarding for all concerned.

Preparation for the trip was impeccably handled by Kathryn Wainscott.  She supplied all the information we needed, and gracefully.  Every aspect of the residency, travel, housing, logistics of working went as planned, no snags.  We lived in two different abodes (three weeks in one, three in the other) offered by the universities.  Both had minor inconveniences, but Sebnem and Geyvan were responsive to our request, as was Mary Ann Whitten and her staff at the Consulate.  And beyond solving minor problems, all three of these hosts set a high standard for hospitality.  They invited us into their homes, introduced us to other artists, took us to see sights, and helped us plan jaunts of our own.  We felt well taken care of, and had an enriching exchange with them and with those they led us to meet.

The dance made for Mimar Sinan, Panolar (Screens), was performed in Eskisehir during out stay.  The dance for Yildiz, Zirve (Peak), was given a studio showing at the end of our residency.  Both will be presented in Ankara in May.  These works provide an active memory of our presence, allowing students, faculty, and others who witness them, a means to carry their experience into the future.

The interaction was lively.  We anticipate maintaining contact with the directors and through them with their students.  Sebnem and Geyvan are true pioneers, of the kind that made Modern Dance flourish in the United States in the last century.  They have provided a spark in Istanbul.  If Modern Dance is to catch fire there, serious thinking and action about venues and about financial resources must take place. Otherwise, the students who will be graduating year to year will go elsewhere to dance, or will give up the pursuit. Our only regret, looking back, is not to have made formal contact with more of the art/dance scene in Istanbul.  Grazia and I carry in us thirty years of downtown New York dance history.  More communication before our trip, about various formats in which we might have presented what we have to offer, could have led to additional use of us as a resource.  We fulfilled, we think, the expectations of us as teacher/choreographer.  We would have liked also to engage directly all those artists, dancers and appreciators, who are interested in contemporary sensibilities.

Grazia and I feel abundantly enriched from our time in Istanbul, and are grateful to all those who made the experience possible.

April 28 - ZIRVE: 13’30”Dancers: Ayrin Ozcan, Sernaz Demirel, Sanem Ozcan, Natalin Boz, Buket Deniz, Onur Topal, Didem Koban, Elif Surbahan, Senem Oluz, Burcak Senel, Pinar Ataer, Leyla Postalcioglu, Nurhan Nebioglu. Music: Server Acim. Performed at Yildiz Teknik Universitesi, Istanbul, Turkey

June 29- July 2 - THE COMMON GOOD: 55’. Dancers: Kate Cross, Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn, Monica Olsson, Beth Simons, Waka Watanabe. Music: David Lindley, Steve Winwood, John McCormack, Server Acim, Righteous Brothers, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, J.S. Bach, Domenico Scarlatti, George Frideric Handel, Buena Vista Social Club. Lights: Carol Mullins. Presented by Danspace Project at St. Marks Church, NYC

July – NYU Dance/music program in Pisa, Italy

October 2 - EXTRA SKIN: 30’. Dancers: Douglas Dunn, Alexander Gish, Alice MacIntyre, Jean Sebastien Sialleli, Beth Simons, Nathan Whiting, Christopher Williams. Music: Elliot Carter, Claude Goudimel, The Sundays. Presented by Movement Research at Judson Church, NYC

November 29-December 4 – Haverford College –Residency, Philadelphia?

November 30 - THE COMMON GOOD: 55’. Dancers: Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn, Jennifer Howard, Monica Olsson, Beth Simons, Waka Watanabe. Music: David Lindley, Steve Winwood, John McCormack, Server Acim, Righteous Brothers, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, J.S. Bach, Domenico Scarlatti, George Frideric Handel, Buena Vista Social Club. Lights: Carol Mullins. Presented by Haverford College at the Founders Great Hall, Haverford, PA. Advice for Common Good is in Studio Gig files.

December 8 & 9 - RECIPROCAL INHIBITION: 20’. NYU Dancers: Tamayo Arai, Rachel Bernier, Tricia Gooley, Catherine Green, Jin-Young Lee, Heather Lenahan, Mei Chian Lim, Denise Murphy, Yayoi Suzuki. Company Dancers: Douglas Dunn and Beth Simons. Music: John Dowland. Choreographed for the New York University Department of Education, at the invitation of Miriam Berger, Chair. Performed at the Distinguished Faculty Concert, NYU’s Frederick Loewe Theater in NYC

December 16 - IN CELEBRATION: 5’. Dancer: Douglas Dunn. Music: Gamelan Son of Lion: Barbara Benary, David Demnitz, Dan Goode, Lisa Karrer. Performed at the Washington Square Church, NYC

2001

January 1 - 100 WALKS 7: Dancers: Grazia Della-Terza & Douglas Dunn. Performed at The Poetry Project’s New Year’s 2001 Marathon Reading, St. Mark’s Church, NYC

January 31 – February 3: AEROBIA, excerpt: 15’. Dancers: Grazia Della-Terza & Douglas Dunn. Text: Jim Neu. Presented by The Kitchen, NYC, as part of Dean Moss’s Talking Dance.

April 30 - EVENT HORIZON IV, BACK TO REASON, A RIVER FROM THE WALLS, REFLETS/VITESSE (title not by DD) : Dancers: Dawn DiPasquale, Regina Felio, Tricia Gooley, Carol Johnson, Kristin Kessel, Missy Mitchell, Bonnie Platt, Douglas Dunn, Renata Celichowska. Choreographed for the New York University New Music & Dance Ensemble at the invitation of Esther Lamneck, Director. Performed at NYU’s Frederick Loewe Theater, NYC

June 2 - AEROBIA: 20’. Dancers: Douglas Dunn, Jennifer Howard, Hope Mohr, Beth Simons, Dusan Týnek. Actor: Jim Neu. Text: Jim Neu. Music: Lenny Pickett. Costume: Mimi Gross. Performed at New York University’s Frederick Loewe Theater in NYC, as part of an American Dance Guild conference.

June 8 – AEROBIA, excerpts: showing at DD&D Studio. Dancers: Douglas Dunn, Jennifer Howard, Hope Mohr, Beth Simons, Dusan Tynek. Actor: Jim Neu. Costumes: Mimi Gross. Music: Lenny Pickett.

June 26 – July 21: At the invitation of Esther Lamneck, DD leads dance component of New York University Summer Program in Pisa. Concert of short works as part of New Music & Dance Ensemble, July 20. Alisa Blokhina on oboe.

July 23-27 – Workshop at the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies, with a showcase on July 26; DD meets Alison Granucci

August 11 – 19: DD at Alta. Shows NEVADA to family on croquet court.

August 30 - EVERYTHING MUST GO: 26’. Dancer: Douglas Dunn. Music: David Lindley, Steve Winwood, George Frederic Handel, Thoinot Arbeau, Gustav Mahler. At the invitation of Priit Raud, performed at Von Krahli Teatri in Tallinn, Estonia

****August 31 – September 23 – At the invitation of Marika Blossfeldt, DD leads dance component of workshop at Polli Talu Arsts Center, Estonia, with Carol Mullins, lighting, David Simons & Lisa Karrer, music. Twelve students, each from east of Estonia: Russia, Mongolia, Azerbaijan…

***October 5 – At the invitation of Renata Celichowska, DD at Judson church for dancing and panel based on Erick Hawkin’s question “What is the most beautiful dance?” DD didn’t dance. Others did, or presented work: Renata, Susan Cherniak Hyde, Valerie Green, Gloria McLean, Nancy Zendora.

November 5 - TRISKELION, EXCERPT: 17’. Dancers: Douglas Dunn, Gillian Lipton, Rachel Margolis, Joy McEwen, Beth Simons. Music: Cousin Jusse by Wimme & Tapani Rinne; Enrico Caruso singing L’alba separa dalla luce l’ombra by Tosti & A Granada by Alvarez; Leontyne Price singing Vissi d-arte from Tosca by Giuseppe Verdi. Performed for the Movement Research’s Monday Night at Judson Church series; evening curated by Renata Celichowska.

November 15-18, 23-25 - AEROBIA: 55’. Dancers: Douglas Dunn, Jennifer Howard, Hope Mohr, Beth Simons, Christopher Williams. Actor: Jim Neu. Text: Jim Neu. Music: Lenny Pickett. Costumes: Mimi Gross. Set: Mimi Gross & Van Santvoord. Lighting: Carol Mullins. Performed at Performance Space 122, NYC

November 8, 2001 – February 3, 2002 – At the invitation of James Carroll, DD drawings on exhibit at Lehigh University Gallery, PA, as part of Dance On Paper.

December 10 - APPLE/DANTESCA/CATHARSIS: Dancers: Regina Felio, Kristin Kessel, Heather Lenahan, Missy Mitchell, Bonnie Platt, Douglas Dunn, Renata Celichowska. Choreographed for the New York University New Music & Dance Ensemble at the invitation of Esther Lamneck, Director. Performed at NYU’s Frederick Loewe Theater, NYC

2002

January 1 - UNTITLED: 2’. Dancer: Douglas Dunn. Music: Musiques des Montagnards - Central Vietnam, “Jorai”. The Poetry Project Benefit at St. Marks Church, NYC

January 25 - 27: At the invitation of Gina Gibney, DD panelist at Food for Thought/Cleveland, w/Donna Faye Burchfield & Kay Cummmings

February 16 - MUSCLE SHOALS, excerpt: Dancers: Douglas Dunn, Beth Simons, Christopher Williams. Mountain View Studio, Woodstock, NY, as part of week-long residency

February 19 - MUSCLE SHOALS, 20’. Dancers: Douglas Dunn, Beth Simons, Christopher Williams. Music: Steve Lacy. Performed as a work-in-progress at the Mountain View Studio in Woodstock on February 16 and at Bard College, NY

February 21 - DON’T CRY NOW, excerpts: Sections 2 & 3. Dancers from the Mo-Trans Dance Company: Christopher Gorney, Brian Plonsky, Kara Olson, Amy Ragsdale, Amy Sennett. Performed at the Northwest American College Dance Festival, Montana Theatre, UM Campus, Missoula, Montana

March 11 – MAY 4 - PULCINELLA: 38’. At the invitation of Brigitte Lefevre, Director, Paris Opera Ballet, re-staging of 1980 original, also for Paris Opera Ballet. Dancers: Laetitia Pujol, Lionel Delanoe, Céline Talon, Stéphane Phavorin, Gil Isoart, Benjamin Alexandre, Mirentchu Battut, Alexandre Carniato, Martin Chaix, Adrien Couvez, Kora Dayanova, Grégory Dominiak, Emilie Fouilloux, Jean-Christophe Guerri, Aurélien Houette, Lise-Marie Jourdain, Myriam Kamionka, Béatrice Martel, Christine Peltzer, Marie-Isabelle Peracchi, Ninon Raux, Cécile Sciaux, Simone Valastro, Gwenaelle Vauthier. Shows at the Palais Garnier. Preparation by DD, Beth Simons, Jean Guizerix, March 11 - May 4. Shows May 4,5,6,7,9,10,14,15,17,18,20,21, first on program followed by Balanchine’s Violin Concerto and Pina Bausch’s Le Sacre du Printemps.

****October 2 …?  DD around the world. Stockholm, St. Petersburg, Kiev (taught actors, made duet for …..), Bangkok (Elizabeth Powers; side trip to Angkor Wat), San Mateo (Evelyn, she falls down, dinner with Barbie, Penny & Bill), Grass Valley, NYC

November 22, 23 (two shows) - BALBOA, BILBAO, BALBUTIES: 9’.  New York University Distinguished Faculty Concert. Dancers: Jenny Brown, Elizabeth Doctors, Pat Dye, Marisa Impalli, Jin-Young Lee, Gila Lemont, Andrea Markus, Yara Sfeir, Josh Stein, JeongMi Wang, Steffanie White. Frederick Loewe Theater, NYU

2003

January 5 - TRISKELION : 16’. Revival of 1999 work. Dancers: The Wellspring Project: Julia Baumgarten, Georgia Corner, Valerie Green, Louis Kavouras, Gillian Lipton, Rachel Margolis, Joy McEwen, John Morris, Jessica Moss, Rod Rufo, Beth Simons. Music composed by Lisa Karrer in Collaboration with David Simons, played live by the two of them. At The 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Center, NYC

February 21 - 25 – MUSCLE SHOALS: 60’. Dancers: Douglas Dunn, Miriam Hess, Sean Mueller, Beth Simons, Christopher Williams, Kindra Windish. Music, Steve Lacy, Framework, played live by Steve Lacy & Petja Kaufman. Costumes & live video: Charles Atlas. Lighting: Carol Mullins. Theatre de la Bastille, Paris. At the request of the theater administrationg and crew, one show was cancelled in order to show solidarity with those demonstrating against government cutbacks in unemployment insurance for arts workers.

April 3-6 – MUSCLE SHOALS: 60’. Dancers: Douglas Dunn, Miriam Hess, Sean Mueller, Beth Simons, Christopher Williams, Kindra Windish. Music, Steve Lacy’s Framework played live by Steve Lacy & Petja Kaufman. Costumes & live video: Charles Atlas. Lighting: Carol Mullins. At the invitation or Laurie Uprichard, Danspace Project, NYC.

June 30 - July 18 – At the invitation of Esther Lamneck, DD leads dance component of New York University Summer Program in Genoa. July 18 - Various Short Works choreographed with the students for New Music and Dance Ensemble, presented at the Auditorium Montale, Teatro Carlo Felice, Genoa, Italy. Dancers: Patricia Dye-Asanté, Valentina Farmome, Lisa Gutman, Aline Nari, Carolina Sbrillo, Christine Thomas, Christine Trotta, Micki Weiner.

August 28 – UNTITLED IMPROVISATION: 70’. At the invitation of Alison Granucci, With poet Anne Waldman & musician Steve Gorn, the Main Hall, Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, NY.

September - December. DD teaches Open Structures at NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, & Human Development (with subs for time away).

October 12 - IMPROVISATION: 12’. With dancers Nicolas Leichter & Eric Bradley, poets Brian Kim Stefans & Melissa Ragona, at TalkTalk WalkWalk Festival curated by Sally Silvers & Jen Abrams at the Bowery Poetry Club, NYC

On Wed, Dec 17, 2020 at 10:20PM Melissa Ragona writes: This was an amazing event — Douglas Dunn came out—moving— with an ENORMOUS, FURRY, SQUARE-SHAPED CONSTRUCTION OVER HIS HEAD! It was quite astounding - he managed to move across the room, without directly seeing where he was going and, though he was constantly out-of-balance, he moved with tremendous grace and control. Brian Kim Stefans and I were already on stage. At first, we were reading some joint text we had put together quickly. Our plan was to start with this structure and, then, go OFF PAGE and improvise. I started speaking in German, but then I let the German turn into homophonic sounds — where it sounded like German, but it was more just the "sound of German," rather than any meaningful syntax.

October 26 – November 22: At the invitation of Louis Kavouras, Chair, DD in residence at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, teaching & setting work on students.

November 20-22 - DOS VEGAS: 13’. At the invitation of Louis Kavouras, Chair of the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. Dancers: Socorro Jones, Stella Kutz, Melissa Larrabee. Stephanie Naddoff, Petrina Olson, Lisa Quincy, Jewel Raquel, Kendra Seaward, Kristen Sholes, Siri Taylor. Lighting: Ben Elliot. Original score by Rylan Helmuth, played by Rylan Helmuth & Lauren Jackson. Presented at HFA Studio 111, UNLV

November 27 – DD flies Las Vegas to Sacramento

December 1 – DD flies Sacramento to Las Vegas

December 7 - 100 WALKS 8: 4’. With Grazia Della-Terza, for marriage celebration of Anne Waldman & Ed Bowes, at Dunn Studio, 541 Broadway, NYC. Music: David Simons, Setu Variations.

??? - LAMENT : 3’30. Solo by DD for Poetry Project January 1 Marathon at St. Mark’s Church. Text written and sung by DD. Costume by DD.

2004

January 1 - UNTITLED : 2’. Solo by DD for Poetry Project Marathon at St. Mark’s Church, NYC. Music: ?? Costume by DD.

March 4-7 - RELIEF :(1978: Revival 2004) 25’. At the invitation of Linda Smith, Repertory Dance Theater. Choreography: Douglas Dunn. Music: John Driscoll. Costumes: Marina Harris. Re-construction: Linda C. Smith. Lighting: Stephen Terry. Dancers: Angela Banchero-Kelleher, Nicholas Cendese, Chara Huckins, Thayer Jonutz, Josh Larson, Lynne Listing, Andrew Noble, Alissa Schirtzinger, Ching-ying Wang. Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, Salt Lake City

May 7 - RV: Premier. 14’. Solo for Janet Charleston, commissioned by her. Music: John Dowland, Fernando Sor, Francois Couperin. At the Merce Cunningham Studio, as part of the Merce Cunningham Studio Faculty Concert.

May 15, 16, 29, 30 & June 5, 6, 19, 20 THE HIGGS FIELD : 60’– Outdoor dance for six. Dancers: Douglas Dunn, Francis A. Stansky, Jessica Weiss, Kindra Windish, Christopher Williams, Ryuji Yamaguchi. At the Pinetum in Central Park, NYC. Two days in a row are expelled from my chosen, fenced-in space, end up just outside it. Un-oiled swings nearby make for good sound score. Squirrels and dogs abound. We dance the piece also 3 times on May 27 on Cannon Green, Princeton University, as part of Princeton Reunions, DD’s 40th. Donald Rumsfeld and his entourage stroll by, some of them laughing at or about us. A woman walks the long diagonal of the Green and almost into Christopher, whom she can see clearly enough. It is the seven-year cycle of the cicadas. The are high up in the tall trees that surround the Green, singing as loud as I’ve ever heard any of their species, and with two tones, a treble and a base. Very loud, Dramatic. Many die, too, and fall to the ground during the afternoon. The morning of May 27 DD on reunion panel led by Ze’eva Cohen, head of dance at Princeton. The subject, Artists on Making Art: The Creative Process. Other participants: Jeremiah Ford, ’54; Angie Day, ’94; Michael Dooma Wendschuh, ’99.

June - Poets Memorial for Steve Lacey at St. Mark’s Church.

Part One: Robert Creely, Ruth Lepson, Jim Koller, Pierre Joris & Nicole Peyrafitte, John Giorno, William Corbett, Anne Waldman, Michael Brownstein, Tom Raworth (audio piece) Part Two: Judith Melina, Suzan Frecon, Lee Friedlander, Irene Aebi, Jeremy Udden, George Lewis, Douglas Dunn, Juini Booth, Roswell Budd. Reception in Parish Hall following memorial. St. Mark’s Church, 131 E. 10th Street, New York, NY 10003.

June 12 & 13 - TITHONUS : 25’. At the invitation of Sin Cha Hong, DD dances the solo on sandy outdoors “stage at Juksan International Arts Festival, South Korea, more than an hour outside Seoul. Audience sitting on incline looks over stage to hills in distance. Night falls as pieces progress. Millions of bugs attracted by the lights attend my piece, which takes place after nightfall. This gig made possible through Tal Streeter’s suggestion so Sin Cha. We travel together and room together. He presents daytime piece with lots of red ribbon. Clownish. He raves about my dance.

September - December. DD teaches Open Structures at New York University Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, & Human Development.

October 10 - UNTITLED IMPROVISATION: 6’. At the invitation of Sally Silvers & Jen Abrams. Solo open structure danced at The Bowery Poetry Club to poem read live by Carol Marakove. NYC

2005

February 7 - 28. DD Master in residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts. Other Masters: William Gass & Larry Austin. Associates: Clarence Brooks, Jonah Bokaer, Nancy Garcia, Sari Nordman, Christine Zani. We gave two shows, one in the new building, concrete only, no ceiling, half walls here and there, in other words half built, DD wore pink, involved everyone from the three disciplines; another, open to public, in the theater at end of the three week.

May 26 - THE LIVING LIVES NOT AMONG THE DEAD. WHY SEEK IT THERE?: Premier. 60’. At the invitation of Laurie Uprichard, & at the suggestion of Bill Cole, at Danspace Project/St. Mark’s Church. Music by Bill Cole, played live by THE UNTEMPERED ENSEMBLE, with dancing accompaniment directed by DOUGLAS DUNN. Title: Bill Cole. The Untempered Ensemble: Bill Cole, Atticus Cole, Cooper-Moore, Joe Daley, Sam Kininger, William Parker, Warren Smith. Dancers: Kelvin Cooper, Douglas Dunn, Susan French, Christopher Williams, Kindra Windish. Narrator: Patricia Smith. Words: Chief Fela Sowande. Costume Design: Mimi Gross. Costume Construction: Kate McDowell. Lighting: Carol Mullins.

September - December. DD teaches Open Structures at NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, & Human Development.

2006

****(Music) June 12,13,14,15,16,17 - BRISAS DEL CARIBE: Premier. 45’. Dancers: Lauren Albert, Douglas Dunn, Hye-Won Hwang, Kyung-Ja Lee, Hyen-Joo Su. Music: At DD&D Studio, 541 Broadway, NYC

June 17 - INTERIOR DEMOLITION: Premier. 12’. Dancers: Douglas Dunn, Liz Filbrun, Matt Sweeney. Costumes: Mimi Gross. Mixed program on “Food for Thought” at Danspace Project/St. Mark’s Church

June 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 26, 27, 28, 29 - MULTIPLE UNDO: Premier. 45’. At the invitation of Nolini Barretto of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Dancers: Douglas Dunn, Sari Nordman, Liz Filbrun, Jessica Martineau, Matt Sweeney, Jessica Weiss, Kindra Windish. At Elevated Acre, 55 Water Street, NYC. Shows coincident with Elke Rindfleisch’s Other Distortions.

July 3 - 23 - At the invitation of Esther Lamneck, DD leads dance component of New York University Summer Program in Genoa. July 23 - Various Short Works choreographed with the students for New Music and Dance Ensemble, presented at the Auditorium Montale, Teatro Carlo Felice, Genoa

July 26 - August 4 – DD in Athens working with Dmitra Poulos.

August 19 At the invitation of Aviva Davidson & Joann Haigood, DD&D makes in one week & shows GLASS SEA as part of Breaking Ground: A Dance Charrette, in the courtyard of Fort Jay on Governors Island, NYC. Dancers: Benjamin Asriel, Douglas Dunn, Liz Filbrun, Jessica Martineau, Paul Singh.

September - December. DD teaches Open Structures at New York University Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, & Human Development.

October 11 - TANKS UNDER TREES: Premier. 60’. Title & text by Anne Waldman, & at her invitation for DD to participate. Gig at the invitation of Karen L. Farber, Managing Director of Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts. This was the baptismal event for the new facility. Music: Max Dyer & Charry playing live. Douglas taught classes two days in advance as audition, chose four students, (Mechelle Fleming, Catalina Gutierrez, Rachel Hodos, Rebecca Rennie) gave them instructions for the show, in which he also danced.

2007

March 3 - DD teaches Master Class with at DD&D studio for Kim Gibilisco’s students from Shenandoah University.

April 13 - ZORN’S LEMMA, excerpt. At the invitation of Renata Celichowska. 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Center Fridays @ Noon. After showing DD taught workshop.

****April 18,19,20,21 - ZORN’S LEMMA: Premier. 25’. At the invitation of Tere O’Connor. Mixed program as part of the “Nothing Festival” at Dance Theater Workshop, NYC. Dancers: Douglas Dunn, Liz Filbrun, Alexis Maxwell, Paul Singh, Gisela Quinteros, Christopher Williams. Music composed & played live by Marina Rosenfeld. Costumes: Mini Gross. Lighting: Carol Mullins. 

May 16 - June 1 - At the invitation of Esther Lamneck, DD leads dance component of New York University Summer Program at La Pietra, Florence. Show in the Limonaia on narrow stage with railings because rain prevented setting up larger platform in the garden. DD visits Anita Piemonti in Pisa for a few days, to NY June 4.   

June 29, Friday- DD&D hosts CEC ArtsLink evening for Russian dancers/choreographers Ivan Estegneev, Vitaly Glukhov, Konstantin Grouss, Irina Ivleva. Organized by Maria Pyshkina. Event for four Russian Choreographers at Studio. Program: Douglas Dunn & Liz Filbrun danced shovel section made for DD & Dimitra Poulos; Christopher Williams danced Dylan from Peepstone; Paul Singh danced Kim from Peepstone; DD danced Mom.

September - December. DD teaches Open Structures at New York University Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, & Human Development.

November 8,9,10,11 - NOTHING FURTHER: At the invitation of Michelle Audet, Executive Director of Dance New Amsterdam. A collage of early 70s work plus revival of Coquina (1979). The collage, 55’, includes material from One Thing Leads to Another (1971), duo concert with Sara Rudner; Co-Incidents (1971), duo concert with David Gordon; Time Out (1973), first DDD solo concert; Four for Nothing (1974); Part I Part II (1975), duo concert with David Woodberry. Dancers: Douglas Dunn, Liz Filbrun, Jean Freebury, Beau Hancock, Paul Singh, Christopher Williams. Lighting: Amanda Ringger. At Dance New Amsterdam, NYC.

November, Baltic Tour, TITHONUS

Nov 14, NYC Tallinn

Helsinki Ulla Koivisto

St. Petersburg

Venice

Granada

Dec 9 -Granada to NY

2008

January 1 - DD dances at Poetry Project Benefit at St. Mark’s Church.

February 24 - March 1 - At the invitation of Claudia Moor & Tom Brouillette, DD working in Toronto. February 24, live radio interview at CIUT. February 25, interview with Susan…    of the Toronto Star. February 26: teaches Master Class at York University. February 28: teaches Master Class at Toronto Dance Theater. February 28, 29, March 1, shows TITHONUS on mixed program as part of Older & Reckless at Dancemakers & the Centre for Creation, Distillery District, 55 Mil Street, Buildingj 74, Studio 313.

March 17 - 21 - At the invitation of George Sampson & Rose Pasquerello Beauchamp, DD in residence at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. March 17: screening of Secret of the Waterfall plus discussion at Lyn Rushton Warren’s Les Yeux de Monde Galler, Kate Nesbitt attends. March 18: DD guest in Dance History Class; DD addresses George Sampson’s Arts Administration Class, “Lofts as artistic communities, Soho, Grand Union; DD dances TITHONUS at Play On! Theater. March 19, DD teaches technique university technique & composition classes, & Master Class at Music Resource Center. March 20, lunch with William Dunn.

March 21 - DD Charlottesville to Charleston, visits Ethan & family, to NY March 26.

**** (dates) New York University Distinguished Faculty Concert. PULCINELLA, excerpt (Quintet). Dancers: Judy Kurjan, Bernadette Malpaya, Lynn Schlesinger, La Teesa Joy Walker, Katie Workhum

**** (dates) dancers) August…. - INFORMATIONS: 30’. Outdoor piece shown on the lawn at Elevated Acre, 55 Water Street, NYC. Produced by DD&D. Dancers: Benjamin Asriel, Kira Blazek, Allison Cave, Rebecca Chaleff, Robbie Cook, Hope Davis, Douglas Dunn, Heather Favretto, Liz Filbrun, Jordan Kriston, Brian Lawson, Ariel Lembeck, Jennifer Levy, Amber Morgan, Sari Nordman, Jerome Stigler, Juliana Tilbury, Alice Sunderland, Matt Sweeney, Justin…, Jessica Weiss

August 23 - At the invitation of Joan Arnold and Jim Paul, INFORMATIONS shown on the ball field in Ancram, NY. Afterwards, indoors, sections of Sky Eye & Pulcinella, with Grazia Della-Terza as one of the couples in the Debussy, plus a duo made for the occasion. 

September - December. DD teaches Open Structures at New York University Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, & Human Development.

September 8 - October 17 - DD teaches Audition Classes, MWF.

October 23-? – DD visits Ethan & family in Winston-Salem, NC

November 13 - Salon Then Our Why - On display, Collaborative Painting by George Schneeman and Ron Padgett; Poetry reading by Ron Padgett.

November 19 - At the French Embassy in NYC, the French Government honors DD as Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres. 

2009

January 1 - DD dances at Poetry Project Benefit at St. Mark’s Church.

February 25,26,28, March 1 – At the invitation of Renata Celichowska, as part of the 92 Street Y’ Harkness Dance Festival, at the Ailey Citicorp Theater, NYC. PULCINELLA (1980): 38’. Restaged with the help of Kira Blazek; Ailey Citigroup Theater; Dancers: Reid Bartelme, Kira Blazek, Allison Cave, Rebecca Chaleff, Hope Davis, Marielis Garcia, Liz Filbrun, Jean Freebury, Jordan Kriston Brian Lawson, Paul Singh, Juliana Tilbury, Jerome Stigler, Alex Stoll, Timothy Ward, Christopher Williams. Music: Igor Stavinsky. Costumes: Mimi Gross. Lighting: Carol Mullins. DD, Paul & Christopher, danced during overture, with shadow screen by Mimi. then boss in man?: Premier. 33’. Dancers: Kira Blazek, Douglas Dunn, Liz Filbrun, Jean Freebury, Paul Singh, Christopher Williams. Music, played live by Tali Roth: J.S. Bach, Chaconne, arranged by Tali Roth); Agustin Barrios Mangoré, Una Limosna por el Amor de Dios; Astor Piazzolla, Libertango; Isaac Albeniz, Granada. Costumes and design, including choice of exposing upstage mirror: Charles Atlas. Lighting: Charles Atlas & Carol Mullins.

April 19 to 27 – At the invitation of Leigh Dillard, DD in residence at ?. DD and Leigh perform REDOWA on program of mostly Leigh’s work. This duo, with role for Kira added, became the opening section of THEN BOSS IN MAN?

***May?? Salon Event - Showing of Entanglement by Ed Bowes.

May 29 – CLEAVE, excerpt (Trio): 10’. At the invitation of Nicky Paraiso. Dancers: Hope Davis, Douglas Dunn, Liz Filbrun Music: J.S. Bach. The Club at LaMama.  Part of “LaMama Moves! Dance Festival: The Cunningham Generation”

June 3-6 – DD & Jim Paul attend Dance USA Conference, Houston, Texas

June 6-10 – DD & GDT visit Ethan & family in Winston Salem, NC.

September - December. DD teaches Open Structures at New York University Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, & Human Development.

October 1,2,3 – SKY EYE (1989): 60’. At the invitation of Judy Hussie-Taylor. At Danspace Project/St. Mark’s Church, NYC. Dancers: Kira Blazek, Paul Singh, Liz Filbrun, Jean Freebury, Timothy Ward, Christopher Williams. Resetting of original with help of Kira Blazek. Music: See 1989. Original Costumes: Mimi Gross. Lighting: Carol Mullins. DD dances as background during the following sections: Capes, Dumb, Phrase, Drums.

October 8,9,10 – CLEAVE, 60’. Premier: At the invitation of Judy Hussie-Taylor. At Danspace Project/St. Mark’s Church, NYC. Dancers: Kira Blazek, Hope Davis, Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn, Liz Filbrun, Jordan Kriston, Brian Lawson, Paul Singh, Timothy Ward, Christopher Williams. Music: J.S. Bach. Text: DD; Seneca; Martial. Costumes: Mimi Gross. Lighting: Carol Mullins 

October 11 – CLEAVE, excerpt (Trio): 10’. At the invitation of Renata Celichowska, participation in the 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance “Marathon 75.” At 92Y Buttenwieser Hall, NYC. Dancers: Hope Davis, Douglas Dunn, Liz Filbrun. Music: J.S. Bach. Costumes: Mimi Gross.

November 1 - At the invitation of Nicky Paraiso, CLEAVE, excerpt (Diagonal): 5’. Dancers: All but Brian Lawson (see Oct 8. As part of the Celebration for Ellen Stewart & LaMama, at the LaMama Annex, NYC.

November 17 - At the invitation of Gina Gibney, as part of the “Sorry I Missed Your Show” series, a screening of CLEAVE, with Grazia Della-Terza & DD dancing live their duo in the Diagonal Section, at the same time that it was appearing on the screen, at the Gina Gibney Studio, NYC.

December 3 - SALON: John Ashbery’s Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, arranged and directed by Jim Paul. Readers: Joan Arnold, Andrea Barnet, Jan Hanvik, James Occhino, Jim Paul, Annie Walwyn-Jones. Douglas Dunn Studio, 541 Broadway, NYC

December 4 – DIVISION OF PERTURBATIONS: Premier. 10’. At the invitation of Charles Atlas & Lucy Sexton. As part of Movement Research “Fall Festival.” Dancers: Kira Blazek, Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn, Liz Filbrun, Paul Singh, Timothy Ward. Text: from Robert Burton, “The Anatomy of Melancholy.” Music: Selections from The Smithsonian Institute Folkways Cassette Series. Costumes: Dancers choice edited by DD. At Danspace Project/St. Mark’s Church.

December 13 - SALON: DD&D hosts party for Jim Paul as he leaves the company. Dancing: solo by Sari Nordman; solo by Timothy Ward; improvisation with Kira Blazek, Jordan Kriston & others.

2010

January 1 - DD dances at Poetry Project Benefit at St. Mark’s Church.

February 24 – At the invitation of Professor Esther Lamneck, DD’s NYU Class dances in Double Reed Faculty Concert presented by the Department of Music and Performing Arts Professionals at NYU’s Frederick Loewe Theater, 35 West 4th Street; DD participates, standing & sitting, slowly removing unlikely objects from cardboard box.

March 19 - VAIN COMBAT - In front of St. Mark’s Church, corner of East 10th St & 2nd Ave. 7:30pm Dancers: Jin Ju Song-Begin, Tony Bordonaro, Paul Singh, Dani Vialpando.

March 23 - VAIN COMBAT - Spring & Lafayette & Centre St. Soho NYC. Dancers: Jake Szczypek, Paul Singh, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Emily Pope, Dani Vialpando, Josh Palmer, Jules Bakshi, Jordan Kriston, Robbie Cook. 

March 25 - VAIN COMBAT - Spring & Lafayette corner in Soho Manhattan. Dancers: Jin Ju Song-Begin, Paul Singh, Emily Pope, Jules Bakshi, Robbie Cook, Dani Vialpando, Jake Szczypek, Josh Palmer.

April 7 - VAIN COMBAT - 6th Ave & Prince St in Soho, Father Fagan Square, NYC. Dancers: Emily Pope, Jordan Kriston, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Dani Vialpando, Josh Palmer, Jake Szczypek, Robbie Cook, Paul Singh.

April 23 - VAIN COMBAT - Outside of St. Mark’s Church. Dancers: Jordan Kriston, Jake Szczypek, Dani Vialpando, Jules Bakshi, Tony Bordonaro, Jin Ju Song-Begin

May 6,7,13,14 – BURIDAN’S ASS: Salon of Dance by Douglas Dunn – at DD&D studio, NYC. Dancers: Jules Bakshi, Kira Blazek, Tony Bordonaro, Raquel Calvalcanti, Robbie Cook, Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn, Christine Elmo, Liz Filbrun, Jee Yun Hong, Jordan Kriston, Joshua Palmer, Emily Pope, Maira Duarte Quiroga, Paul Singh, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Adelheid, B. Strelick, Jake Szczypek, Dani Vialpando. A mix of Vain Combat bits in silence, with pieces from the past, plus new trio for Liz, Grazia & Douglas, Il Pleut sur la Route.

June 11 - VAIN COMBAT - as part of “Figment” on Governor’s Island. Tony Bordonaro, Paul Singh, Jake Szczypek, Jordan Kriston, Jules Bakshi, Kira Blazek. 30 minute score by dancers. First run in middle of Parade Grounds field, no audience. Next two runs on sloping asphalt at ferry landing, those in line for return ferry watching, and all those arriving passing through and around the dancing.

June 12 - VAIN COMBAT - as part of Figment on Governor’s Island. Jules Bakshi & Tony Bordonaro. Order of bits by dancers. Jules writes: “Hi Douglas, I think the performances went really well, although halfway through our first run, security stopped us because they believed we would get trampled by spectators. I kept dancing until the president of Governors Island came and politely asked us to move. Tony and I were incensed, but we relocated and ran the whole score twice more full through, towards the back of the line for the ferry. We took a short break in between runs, so its possible we just missed you! My friends and family got some great footage and photos, which I will post to the Vain Combat youtube page.

June 13 - CYTHERA - as part of Figment on Governor’s Island. Gabriella Hiatt & DD in semi-open structure using four trees on Parade Grounds as frame. Light rain. Matthew of the Figment staff stands with umbrella to watch first of two runs of the fifteen-minute piece, then interprets to us what he saw with appreciation and curiosity.

July 5-11 – DD in residence at Naropa University, Boulder, Colorado, as part of the Summer Writing Program, Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. Following a thorough & praiseful introduction by Barbara Dilley, DD dances a version of TITHONUS; leads a week-long workshop called “Visual/Kinetic Language”; participates in evening reading.

July 22 - NARROW ANGLE - A special event at P.P.O.W. Gallery at 511 West 25th Street, NYC 10001 on Thursday, July 22nd, 6-8 pm. Group show titled “Young Curators, New Ideas III” Dates of show: July 22 - August 20, 2010. Gabriella Hiatt curates works by Jan Tichy alongside an opening night performance by Douglas Dunn. Dancers Kira Blazek, Liz Filbrun & Emily Pope, wearing white gauze outfits, mix with the opening’s crowd. Quote from P.P.O.W. Press Release: “…Dunn will mediate the imperceptible spaces between air and matter throughout the gallery, calling attention to the juncture of the seen and the seen through.”

September 18 to 25 – At the invitation of Jane Hawley, DD residency at Luther College, Decorah, IA; DD invents solo ZEPHYR for her; on September 25, we show the piece with live piano by Jessica Paul; also on program, NEVADA, MOM, SHOVEL, & Harlem, the last by Jane.

September 26 to October 10 – DD staying alone to take care of Romeo & Tiger at sister Susan’s house in Grass Valley, CA, while she travels to Australia. DD works on new section of Vain Combat in living room, & prepares texts for Cue Art Foundation, where he is curating Elizabeth Winton, & for upcoming presentation of Dance Magazine Award to Deborah Jowitt.

October 12 - THE SNAKE in Washington Square Park. Dancers: Jin Ju Song-Begin, Emily Bock, Cherie Burnett, Marie Zvosec, Jake Szczypek, Raquel Cavalcanti, Tony Bordonaro.

October 17 - THE SNAKE in Styvesant Park, Manhattan. Dancers: Kevin Fay, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Cherie Burnett, Raquel Calvalcanti, Maira Duarte, Marie Zvosec. 

November 1 – DD, wearing Edwin Denby’s shoes, presents Dance Magazine Award to Deborah Jowitt at Ailey Citigroup Theater

November 6 - VAIN COMBAT - In front of the Joyce Theater; Dancers: Kira Blazek, Tony Bordonaro, Emily Pope, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Paul Singh, Emily Bock, Timothy Ward, Jake Szczypek, Jules Bakshi.

November 16 - THE SNAKE - Times Square; Dancers: Kevin Fay, Dana Thomas, Emily Bock, Esme Boyce, Jin Ju Song-Begin.

November 17 - THE SNAKE - Chelsea Market; Dancers: Jin Ju Song-Begin, Rayvawn Johnson, Kevin Fay, Esme Boyce, Luke Murphy.

November 19 - THE SNAKE - Washington Square Park; Dancers: Jin Ju Song-Begin, Tony Bordonaro, Rayvawn Johnson, Dana Thomas, John Zurek, Marie Zvosec.

2011

January 1 - DD dances at Poetry Project Benefit at St. Mark’s Church to first two minutes of Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture, wielding two sword-like pieces of metal, one in each hand, Mimi Gross’s painted bird attached to his right arm.

January 27 - DD attends, as curator, opening for painter Elizabeth Winton at Cue Art Foundation, 511 West 25th Street, NYC.

January 28 - DD&D premier of SING SONG (10’) on mixed program, three readers and a musician, at Picasso Machinery, a Salon run by Pete Simonelli and Evan Rehill, 45 Broadway, Brooklyn. Dancers: DD, Tony Bordonaro, Gabriella Hiatt, Paul Singh; Music: Scelsi, Satie, Carter.

January/February/March - At the invitation of Renata Celichowska, Director of the 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Center, & of Ryan Corriston, Artistic Director of the Harkness Repertory Ensemble, DD works ten sessions with the HRE dancers as they develop for the first time their own dances.

February 6 - At the invitation of Sarah Skaggs, DD moderates discussion following her showing at 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Center.

February 18, 19, 20 – Salon Tom Brouillette. The Canadian dancer & others present work.

February 24 - DD performs, one of many, in The Horse’s Mouth, a special version kicking off the American Dance Guild Festival at Manhattan Movement & Arts Center. His successive partners were Gloria McLean & Betsy Fisher.

February 27 - DD’s ZEPHYR shown at American Dance Guild’s Festival at Manhattan Movement and Arts Center, danced by Gabriella Hiatt.

March 31 - April 2 - BURIDAN’S ASS (60’) produced by Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church, dancers: Grazia Della-Terza, Kira Blazek, Christopher Williams, Emily Pope, JinJu Song-Begin, Dani Vialpando, Storme Sundberg, Adelheid B. Strelick, Jake Szczypek, Jee Yun Hong, Joshua Palmer, Jules Bakshi, Maira Duarte Quiroga, Raquel Cavalcanti, Timothy Ward, Tony Bordonaro, Emily Bock, Esmé Boyce, Kevin Fay, John Zurek, Rei Akazawa, Marie Zvosec, Heather Favretto, Giulia Carotenuto, Cherie Burnett, Dana Thomas, Rayvawn Johnson, Douglas Dunn; Lighting: Carol Mullins.

April 29, 30 – STUDIO SALON – Cyborg on the Zattere: A Poundatorio by Anne Waldman and Steven Taylor; Personnel: Ambrose Bye, audio, sound effects; Nathan Davis, percussion; Grazia Della-Terza, dance, vocals; Douglas Dunn, choreography, dance, vocals; Marty Ehrlich, reeds; Alaina Ferris, vocals; Virginia Kaycoff, vocals; Ha-Yang Kim, cello, toy piano; Jonathan Miller, vocals; Jim Paul, management, projection; Pat Steir, waterfall paintings; Steven Taylor, composer, guitar, vocals; Anne Waldman, librettist, vocals; Holly Weiss, vocals; the short duo danced by GDT/DD was set to a chance manipulation by Steven Taylor of Satie’s Vexations.

May 16 to 20 – At the invitation of Trish Lent and Mary Lisa Burns, DD leads SPACECRAFT, a workshop in choreography at the Merce Cunningham Studio. DD’s blurb:  “You can’t teach somebody how to really dance,” says Salinger’s Holden Caulfield. True? Definitely the case when it comes to composition. I don’t presume to teach a way, or ways, to make dances: the mandate of the modern anti-tradition is not the Chinese ideal for painters of close imitation of the master. Rather, in the spirit of breakaway invention, we will share the experience of putting things together and of seeing, having begun one way or another, what happens. We won’t worry about where material comes from, but will certainly do our best to agitate the sources. Then, looking at what appears, and cultivating all points of the rational/intuitive spectrum, we will decide if we want to change it. Elements that inevitably present themselves for consideration: shape—rhythm—tempo— space—demeanor. But we won't avoid any other matters you might also want to consider.”

Students: Carmen Cáceres, Rachel Burn, Laura Cossa, Irene van Zeeland, Alessia Della Casa, Catriona Lovie, Julieta Alicata, Kiyoko Kashiwagi, Philip Foster.

May 14 – VAIN COMBAT, on sidewalk of Spring Street in front of handball courts; Dancers: Kira Blazek, Jules Bakshi, Josh Palmer, Timothy Ward.

May 25 – VAIN COMBAT, Dancers: Emily Pope, Emily Bock, Timothy Ward, Tony Bordonaro, Jules Bakshi; DD letter to Ethan: “Last evening Vain Combat was realized on the wide sidewalk on the north side of Houston between Mercer & Green, against the long high mustard-color brick wall of the south end of NYU's gym. The lowering sun cast long shadows. Folks, many and diverse, were obliged to walk around—or right through—the dancing. I observed the usual mix, the range from indifferent, through mild interest, to making-fun-of, to stand-to-watch, from a distance. I no longer even vicariously do the moves, feel quite apart, watch those watching almost as much as those dancing.”

May 26 – VAIN COMBAT, in open space on south side of arch at Washington Square Park; dancers: Timothy Ward, Tony Bordonaro, Emily Bock, Emily Pope.

June 2 – Grazia Della-Terza & DD attend Advanced Teen Dance Concert at 92nd Street Y. On the program is UPSTARTS, the piece with bits by the students arranged by DD & Emily Pope. Music: Bulgarian Folk Music; Dancers: Lilly Barany, Janae Barrett, Talia Bornstein, Sarah Botero, Allison Costa, Elise Felber, Ariana Ginsberg, Emma King, May Makki, Danielle Mullen, Aneyn O’Grady; (Mindy Toro out sick).

June 10 – THE SNAKE, at Battery Park City north; Dancers: Giulia Carotenuto, Esmé Boyce, Marie Zvosec, Kevin Fay, John Zurek.

June 14 - VAIN COMBAT, for ten minutes in overpass walkway near Battery Park City, kicked out, then nearby in space in front of Regal Cinema; Dancers: Timothy Ward, Emily Bock, Jake Szczypek, Jules Bakshi, Tony Bordonaro, Kira Blazek; challenged here, too; DD sitting against wall with bags; building guard comes over, says it’s private property (Goldman Sachs), no sitting allowed; DD stands up, guard goes away, gets cop involved; big handsome middle aged cop makes friendly conversation with DD, How much longer, etc.; then, What is it? Modern Dance, etc. sympathetic.

June 20 – THE SNAKE, at Bryant Park; John Zurek, Maira Duarte, Marie Zvosek

June 21 – VAIN COMBAT, at Madison Square Park on grass in sunny spot next to temporary sculpture of huge white elongated head, the many people there to relax on the grass paying, to DD’s surprise, extended attention; Dancers: Tony Bordonaro, Emily Bock, Emily Pope, Jules Bakshi.

June 21 – THE SNAKE, at Christopher St. Pier; Dancers: Maira Duarte, John Zurek, Marie Zvosek, Rayvawn Johnson, Kevin Fay, Dana Thomas, Heather Favretto.

June 22 – THE SNAKE, at Riverside Park; Dancers: Kevin Fay, Heather Favretto, John Zurek, Dana Thomas, Maira Duarte, Marie Zvosec.

June 24 – VAIN COMBAT, on Wall Street near Stock Exchange, just down the street from the building with lots of steps and a statue; Dancers: Timothy Ward, Kira Blazek, Jake Szczypek, Tony Bordonaro.

June 29 – VAIN COMBAT, at Columbus Circle; Dances: Emily Pope, Emily Bock, Tony Bordonaro, Dani Vialpando, Jules Bakshi, Timothy Ward.

July 12 – VAIN COMBAT, on The Highline at about 15th Street; Dancers: Jake Szczypek, Timothy Ward, Dani Vialpando, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Tony Bordonaro; guard walked through, said just don’t block the path completely, walked on unperturbed; Dani’s high school friend Hannah watched bags with DD; two or three-year old was attentive & active, his extended family giving him lots of freedom to move about, said he is already studying dance, they thanked us for the show.

July 13 – THE SNAKE, at Battery Park; Cherie Burnett, Kevin Fay, Esmé Boyce, Dana Thomas, John Zurek.

July 13 – VAIN COMBAT, at Prince & Mulberry; Dancers: Timothy Ward, Dani Vialpando, Emily Bock, Tony Bordonaro; caught in squall; Timothy writes: “Oh yes it started raining on us as we were transitioning to the final Section at which point we agreed to disperse, no sooner had we dispersed than the skies really opened up at which point we all began running back to 541. I had the keys and have the longest legs so I kept running wind and rain in my face jumping over boxes flying in the wind. I made it back before getting completely drenched. The other three got stuck at a light and were so soaked they decided to do the final Dying Solo material in the pouring rain, not sure where exactly as they did it without coming back for me.”

July 19 – VAIN COMBAT, at Bryant Park; Dancers: Timothy Ward, Emily Pope, Dani Vialpando, Tony Bordonaro, Jake Szczypek, Jules Bakshi.

July 20 – THE SNAKE, at Hudson River Park, Pier 62; Dancers: Esmé Boyce, Kevin Fay, Dana Thomas, John Zurek, Rayvawn Johnson, Marie Zvosec.

July 20 –VAIN COMBAT, at Lafayette & Spring; Dancers: Tony Bordonaro, Timothy Ward, Emily Bock, Dani Vialpando.

July 26 – VAIN COMBAT, at Washington Square Park; Dancers: Timothy Ward, Jake Szczypek, Jules Bakshi, Emily Bock, Emily Pope, Tony Bordonaro, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Dani Vialpando; Diane Frank and I watch the piece together.

July 27 - VAIN COMBAT, at The North Cove, Battery Park City; Dancers: Dani Vialpando, Emily Pope, Emily Bock, Tony Bordonaro, Timothy Ward, Jules Bakshi.

July 27 – THE SNAKE, at Tompkins Square Park; Dancers: Jin Ju Song-Begin, Kevin Fay, Dana Thomas, Rei Akazawa, John Zurek

August 2 – VAIN COMBAT, on The Highline at 15th Street; Dancers: Jake Szczypek, Emily Bock, Tony Bordonaro, Jules Bakshi.

August 3 – VAIN COMBAT, at Spring & Lafayette; Dances: Jin Ju Song-Begin, Jake Szczypek, Dani Vialpando, Tony Bordonaro, Timothy Ward.

August 9 – THE SNAKE, at Chelsea Market & on The Highline; Dancers: John Zurek, Rei Akazawa, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Esmé Boyce, Dana Thomas. After the first run, in the market, a guard said we were not permitted to dance without a permit. On The Highline a guard stopped the line after only a few minutes. She asked the dancers if a choreographer was present. They hesitated (I was out of sight), then Dana said no. The guard said that a lawsuit has led to new rules. There is no performing allowed without permit in Central Park below 86th St., in Union Square, on The Highline, and in Battery Park.

August 13 – VAIN COMBAT, in front of The Joyce Theater as audience gathering for show by ODC; Dancers: Timothy Ward, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Tony Bordonaro, Dani Vialpando, Jake Szczypek.

August 20 - THE SNAKE, in front of St. Mark’s Church.

September 15 – THE SNAKE, outside the west windows of the World Financial Center; Dancers: Esmé Boyce, Marie Zvosec, Kevin Fay, John Zurek, Rei Akazawa, Maira Duarte, Jin Ju Song-Begin.

September 26 –THE SNAKE, at Columbia University; Dancers: Rei Akazawa, Rayvawn Johnson, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Maira Duarte, Esmé Boyce, Marie Zvosec.

September 28, 29, October 3 – at the invitation of Adelheid B. Strelick, DD teaches, one each day, three of her classes at Adelphi College, one Workshop, two History.

September 30 – THE SNAKE, at Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 6; Dancers: Jin Ju Song-Begin, Maira Duarte, Rei Akazawa, Esmé Boyce, Marie Zvosec.

October 14 – Sally Silvers charges DD, Jane Comfort & Lizzie Olesker, with organizing Peggy Gould, Darrin Wright, K.J. Holmes, Claire Porter, Veraalba Santa & Robert Maynard, over twenty-five minutes, into a performance to be presented immediately during the following five; at the new location of Roulette, 509 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn, NY.

October 16 – THE SNAKE & VAIN COMBAT, as part of LaMama’s 50th Anniversary Celebration, on East 4th Street between Bowery and 2nd Avenue; Vain Combat: Christopher Williams, Dani Vialpando, Emily Bock, Emily Pope, Jake Szczypek, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Jules Bakshi, Kira Blazek, Paul Singh, Timothy Ward, Tony Bordonaro; The Snake: Cherie Burnett, Dana Thomas, Esmé Boyce, Giulia Carotenuto, John Zurek, Kevin Fay, Maira Duarte, Marie Zvosec, Raquel Cavalcanti, Rayvawn Johnson, Rei Akazawa; DD also performed Can-Goat, crawling on back & forth on the street wearing a goat mask, a gray jumpsuit with video tape streamers, & Irish Oatmeal cans attached, also a ten-foot tail of the cans. 

October 21 – DD curates Danspace Evening “Food for Thought” at St. Mark’s Church in Manhattan; calls it THE QUEST FOR EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION; pieces presented by Kira Blazek, Paul Singh, Jin Ju Song-Begin, & Mindy Toro.

November 5 – Salon Susan Dibble; her 7 Polished Hearts; Dancers: Barbara Allen, Merry Conway, Grazia Della-Terza, Susan Dibble, Reilly Hadden, Sarah Hickler, Cecil MacKinnon, Rebecca Perrin; Costume design: Anna-Alisa Belous;  two performances.

November 6 – VAIN COMBAT, across Broadway from Zuccotti Park/Occupy Wall Street; Dancers: Timothy Ward, Jules Bakshi, Emily Pope, Jake Szczypek, Emily Bock, Dani Vialpando.

November 13 - VAIN COMBAT, across Broadway from Zuccotti Park/Occupy Wall Street; Dancers: Timothy Ward, Jules Bakshi, Emily Pope, Dani Vialpando.

2012

January 1 - DD dances excerpt from CASSATIONS, to Quanto é bella at Poetry Project Benefit

January 7 – APAP Showings, same work at 12, 2 & 4; DD shows newly made sections of CASSATIONS, duo with Christopher Williams, Quintet with Liz Filbrun, Kira Blazek, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Emily Pope, Gabriella Hiatt; also showing work, Jean Butler, Sarah Skaggs, Christopher Williams; DD&D Studio

February 5 – Open Rehearsal of four sections of the developing CASSATIONS, 1 PM; DD solo from Poetry Project Benefit; Quintet from APAP, Liz Filbrun, Kira Blazek, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Emily Pope, Gabriella Hiatt; duo DD/Christopher Williams; Quintet for upcoming Picasso Machinery, DD, Emily Bock, Liz Filbrun, Emily Pope, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Dani Vialpando; DD&D Studio

February 10 - DD&D shows excerpt of CASSATIONS at Picasso Machinery, a Salon run by Pete Simonelli and Evan Rehill, 45 Broadway, Brooklyn. Dancers: Douglas Dunn, Emily Bock, Liz Filburn, Emily Pope, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Dani Vialpando. Music: Handel, Calm my soul.

April  14 & 15 - CLASH; premier on NYU Steinhardt Distinguished Faculty Concert, at NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts; Dancers: Leah Antonellis, Gabrielle Brigida, Ya-ting Chi, Maira Duarte, Jee Yun Hong, Juyeun Lee, Chrissie Leong, Melania Fernández Porras, Rachel Scott; Music: “Laudate Dominum,” W.A. Mozart, sung by Cecilia Bartoli;  “Fuego a la Jicotea,” Marvin Santiago

April 21 – SALON RUDY BURCKHARDT; at the Douglas Dunn Studio, 541 Broadway, 8 PM; produced by Douglas Dunn & Dancers/Rio Grande Union, Inc. in collaboration with Yvonne Jacquette, Jacob Burckhardt, Tom Burckhardt, & Tibor de Nagy Gallery, as launch of 3-DVD set of Rudy’s films; Talking Pictures by Simon Pettet & Rudy was also on sale; films shown: Julie, Inside Dope, Night Fantasies, 145 W 21, Eastside Summer, The Automotive Story, Central Park in the Dark.

May 4 - At the invitation of Mark DeGarmo, under auspices of Mark DeGarmo & Dancers/Dynamic Forms, at the Flamboyán Theater, Clemente Soto Vélz Cultural & Educational Center, NYC, DD presents Lifetime Achievement Award in Dance to Marie Baker-Lee.

May 7 - At the invitation of Esther Lamneck, Artistic Director of NYU New Music Ensemble, DD, as Special Guest Artist, dances at Frederick Loewe Theater during Musica per un Incantesimo by Alfonso Belfiore.

May 19 - Open Rehearsals of CASSATIONS at DD&D Studio, 1 PM & 3 PM; Dancers: Douglas Dunn, Kira Blazek, Emily Bock, Tony Bordonaro, Grazia Della-Terza, Liz Filbrun, Gabriella Hiatt, Gwyneth Jones, Christopher Williams, Paul Singh, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Timothy Ward; Costumes & Décor, Mimi Gross; Music: various recorded, mostly opera arias.

September 6 & 7 - At the invitation of Elaine Summers, DD dances her “Windows in the Kitchen” as part of the American Dance Guild Performance Festival 2012, at the Ailey Citigroup Theater, New York City, with Jon Gibson on flute.

September 21 - VAIN COMBAT, at north end of park at Houston & Christie; Dancers: Jules Bakshi, Tony Bordonaro, Emily Pope, Timothy Ward.

September 26 - VAIN COMBAT, at park at Lafayette & Spring; Dancers: Jules Bakshi, Emily Pope, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Jake Szczypek, Dani Vialpando, Timothy Ward.

October 5, 6, 7– CASSATIONS – at the invitation of Catherine Tharin, DD+D performs Cassations at the 92Y Harkness Dance Center. Choreography: Douglas Dunn, Dancers: Miguel Anaya, Kira Blazek, Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn, Liz Filbrun, Gabriella Hiatt, Gwyneth Jones, Emily Pope, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Jake Szczypek, Timothy Ward, Christopher Williams. Design: Mimi Gross, Lighting: Kathy Kaufmann, Mangement of DD&D: Jules Bakshi. Music by Section: 1) Cassation in G Major, K. 63, Anadate, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 2) “Quanto e bella,” from L’elisir d’amore by Gaitano Donizetti, sung by Guiseppe di Stefano 3) “Casta Diva,” from Norma by Vincenzo Bellini, sung by Maria Callas 4) “Ombra mai fu,” from Serse by Geore Fredrick Handel, sung by Cecilia Bartoli 5) “Amara Servitu,” from Muzio scevola, by Francesco Cavalli, sung by Glenda Simpson 6) “Calm thou my soul,” from Alexander Balus by George Frederick Handel, sung by Renee Fleming 7) Two-Part Invention, by J.S. Bach, played by Glenn Gould 8) “Core ‘ngrato,” by Cardillo-Cordiferro, sung by Enrico Caruso 9) “Mari Stanko,” Traditional Bulgarian, sung by Ellen Santaniello 10) a) “Pastoral” by George Bizet, sung by Nellie Melbab) “Soit paien,” by Georges Hue, sung by Nellie Melba c) “Sleep,” by George Frederick Handel, sung by John McCormack d) “Ombra mai fu,” from Serse by George Frederick Handel, sung by Renee Fleming 11) Sonata in E major, K380, by Domenico Scarlatti, played by Maggie Cole 12) “No me quiere tu gente,” Terremoto de Jerez 13) “Introit et Kyrie,” from Requiem by Gabriel Faure, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields 14) “Nuages,” by Claude Debussy 15) “Bailero,” from Songs of the Auvergne by Joseph Cantaloube, sung by Netania Davrath.

October 27 – 11am-6pm; at the invitation of Julia Gleich of Norte Maar, DD+D performs at the National Academy Museum, 1083 5th Avenue, NYC, as part of a durational dance event called “Cage on Vinyl on Marley”. 11:00am: FORTY KNOTS, Douglas Dunn in collaboration with dancers Jules Bakshi, Tony Bordonaro, Janet Charleston, Grazia Della- Terza, Liz Filbrun, Gabriella Hiatt, Emily Pope, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Jake Szczypek, Timothy Ward, Christopher Williams; 2:30 pm: VAIN COMBAT, Jules Bakshi, Tony Bordonaro, Emily Pope, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Jake Szczypek, Dani Vialpando, Timothy Ward; 5:30 pm: DD & Julia Gleich; Roster of Dancers/Choreographers included in the event were: Douglas Dunn, Julia K. Gleich/Gleich Dances, Molissa Fenley, Sara Rudner, Take Dance, Gus Solomons jr., Pat Catterson, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Janet Charleston, Jules Bakshi, Paul Singh, Sally Silvers, Gabriella Hiatt, Julie Fotheringham, Ara Fitzgerald, DELIRIOS Dances/ Edisa Weeks, Liz Santoro, Lynn Parkerson. The event was presented by NorteMaar. “Cage on Vinyl on Marley” was part of the National Academy Museum's Chance Encounters Series: a series of public programs, presented in conjunction with the exhibition John Cage: The Sight of Silence. 

December 9 – STUDIO SALON – DD curates Christopher Williams (Hen’s Teeth, excerpt), Jin Ju Song-Begin (Wall), Kira Blazek PEP RALLY), Paul Singh (Debt), Jules Bakshi (Aminals).

2013

DD teaching MWF morning technique, ongoing

February 7-9 – CASSATIONS – At the invitation of Judy Hussie-Taylor, DD+D perform Cassations at Danspace Project, St. Mark’s Church. Choreography: Douglas Dunn, Dancers: Miguel Anaya, Kira Blazek, Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn, Liz Filbrun, Gabriella Hiatt, Gwyneth Jones, Kihwa Kim (Thursday & Friday) Emily Pope, Jin Ju Song-Begin (Saturday), Jake Szczypek, Timothy Ward, Christopher Williams. Design: Mimi Gross Lighting: Kathy Kaufmann Mangement of DD&D: Jules Bakshi Music by Section: 1) Cassation in G Major, K. 63, Anadate, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 2) “Quanto e bella,” from L’elisir d’amore by Gaitano Donizetti, sung by Guiseppe di Stefano 3) “Casta Diva,” from Norma by Vincenzo Bellini, sung by Maria Callas 4) “Ombra mai fu,” from Serse by Geore Fredrick Handel, sung by Cecilia Bartoli 5) “Amara Servitu,” from Muzio scevola, by Francesco Cavalli, sung by Glenda Simpson 6) “Calm thou my soul,” from Alexander Balus by George Frederick Handel, sung by Renee Fleming 7) Two-Part Invention, by J.S. Bach, played by Glenn Gould 8) “Core ‘ngrato,” by Cardillo-Cordiferro, sung by Enrico Caruso 9) “Mari Stanko,” Traditional Bulgarian, sung by Ellen Santaniello 10) a) “Pastoral” by George Bizet, sung by Nellie Melbab) “Soit paien,” by Georges Hue, sung by Nellie Melba c) “Sleep,” by George Frederick Handel, sung by John McCormack d) “Ombra mai fu,” from Serse by George Frederick Handel, sung by Renee Fleming 11) Sonata in E major, K380, by Domenico Scarlatti, played by Maggie Cole 12) “No me quiere tu gente,” Terremoto de Jerez 13) “Introit et Kyrie,” from Requiem by Gabriel Faure, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields 14) “Nuages,” by Claude Debussy 15) “Bailero,” from Songs of the Auvergne by Joseph Cantaloube, sung by Netania Davrath. Evening runs approximately 90 minutes with a 10- minute intermission.

February 23 - At the invitation of Judy Hussie-Taylor, DD participates in Day of Dance at Bryn Mawr College, speaking & showing as part of an event based on a format by John Cage Event, “How to Get Started”; others on the program: Anne Waldman, Elizabeth Streb, Claudia La Rocco.

March 19 - At the invitation of Bonnie Marranca, DD+D offers “performance/demo” at Wollman Hall, Eugene Lang College, The New School, NYC; simultaneously, Nick Bakshi reads from Dancer Out of Sight, video mix plays, DD makes duo on Jin Ju Song-Begin & Jules Bakshi; then they show the duo phrase by itself; then Q&A.

April 5 - At the invitation of Catherine Tharin, DD on panel for Fridays at Noon at the 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Program regarding Merce Cunningham.

April 7 to May 4 - at the instigation of Julie Martin, DD&D at Rauschenberg Residency on Captiva, with Anne Waldman, Steven Taylor, Charles Atlas, Jules Bakshi, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Kira Blazek, Paul Singh, Grazia Della-Terza; Mimi Gross visits on her own for a few days. DD works on Comme si mornings. Afternoons dancers work on their own projects. Showing at end in large studio of bits of Comme si, Kira shows a work.

April 19, 20, 21 - COMME SI… shows as part of NYU Faculty Concerts, Loewe Theater, 35 West 4th Street, NYC; Dancers: Ako Ando, Ian Colless, Kihwa Kim; Music: Part I: Section from Sonata a mandolino e basso continuo by Domenico Scarlatti. Part II: Ciaconna per la lettera B by Giovanni Battisti Vitali. Part III: Toccata per B quadro by Francesco Maria Bassano; Janet Charleston assists DD & takes over while DD at Captiva

May 31 - at the invitation of Christopher Williams, expanded version of COMME SI... shows on mixed bill with Williams and Jordan Isadore at 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Center on the series Fridays at Noon; Dancers: DD, Jules Bakshi, Gabriella Hiatt, Emily Pope, Paul Singh, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Jake Szczypek, Timothy Ward; Music: I) Section from Sonata a mandolino e basso continuo by Domenico Scarlatti; II) Ciaconna per la lettera B by Giovanni Battisti Vitali; III) Toccata per B quadro by Francesco Maria Bassano; IV) Air tendre from Second Concert by François Couperin; V) Rigaudon from Fourth Concert by François Couperin; VI) Echos from Second Concert by François Couperin.

Jun 15 - at the instigation of Alison Granucci, DD&D shows Talk about Movement! at the Byrdcliffe Theater as part of the Byrdcliffe Festival of the Arts in Woodstock, NY; Dancers: DD, Jules Bakshi, Jin Ju Song-Begin; Video by DD & Glen Fogel; Live Reading from DD’s Dancer Out of Sight by Nick Bakshi; Music: Section from Sonata a mandolino e basso continuo by Domenico Scarlatti (Comme si… #1); Sailor’s Song sung live by Steven Taylor; Ballet (recorded) by Steven Taylor; Worm Music, live by Steven Taylor; Echos from Second Concert by François Couperin (Comme si… #6); See the Silver Moon, lullaby played on guitar by Steven Taylor as line exit.

July 11 - At the invitation of Chris Rauschenberg, for the opening of the Rauschenberg Foundation Gallery at 455 West 19th Street in Manhattan, DD&D presents NARROW ANGLE with Jules Bakshi, Gabriella Hiatt, Emily Pope; DD shows “Corner” from TIME OUT (1972).

September 16 – At the invitation of Steven Hall, Steven Taylor sings Sailor Song & DD dances at The Parish Hall, St. Mark’s Church, NYC, in benefit for poet Bernadette Mayer.

September thru December – DD Teaches at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development; December 2; DD & his students dance as part of Esther Lamneck’s New Music Ensemble concert at Frederick Loewe Theater.

July thru December – DD teaches technique ad DD&D Studio MWF mornings.

December 5 & 7 – Rio Grande Union, Inc. presents Salon Ed Bowes. Grisaille (2013) and Spitting Glass (1989-91), two films by Ed Bowes.

2014

January 1 – DD dances at Poetry Project Benefit, St. Mark’s Church, Steven Taylor guitar & voice.

January 24 to Feb 1 (6 shows) - At the invitation of Jedediah Wheeler, AUBADE (60’) is commissioned by Peak Performances, Montclair State University; World Premiere at Montclair State University, Alexander Kasser Theater; Artistic Director & Choreographer: Douglas Dunn; Lighting, Costumes and Video: Charles Atlas; Composer & Musical Director: Steven Taylor; Text: Anne Waldman; Company Manager & Production Coordinator: Jules Bakshi. Rehearsal Director: Janet Charleston; Production Manager: Natalie Glick; Assistant Lighting Designer: Laure Parrish; Video Consultants: Glen Fogel, Joshua Thorson; Costume Fabrication: Joy Havens, David Quinn; Company Dancers: Alexandra Berger, Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn, Emily Pope, Paul Singh, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Jake Szczypek, Timothy Ward, Christopher Williams; Montclair State Dancers: Julianne Cullen, Jake Deibert, Kylie Levine, Genna Mergola, Crystal Rodriguez, Mark Willis; Musicians: Steven Taylor (Vocals, Guitars, Harmonium), Jerome Begin (Piano, Computer), Ha-Yang Kim (Cello), Cleek Schrey (Fiddle).

March 6 - At the invitation of Matt Sullivan, DD dances to Benjamin Britten’s Pan, oboe solo, played by NYU undergrad Elyse Barna, as part of Generation 2014, an evening of collaborative music presented by NYU Double Reed Faculty and Students, at Frederick Loewe Theater, NYU, NYC.

DD continues MWF morning technique class, January February March April.

March 27 – At the invitation of Jacob Burckhardt, DD+D enact a Performance Demo at DD+D Studio for Jacob’s students in class of “Four Dimensions,” with open invitation to others. The format is similar to the event at the New School last year, & identical to the event at Woodstock. DD makes phrase on Jin Ju Song-Begin & Jules Bakshi while video shows & Paul Singh reads from Dancer Out of Sight. Then JJ & JB dance excerpt from Comme si… (last section). Then DD dances to Steven Taylor singing sailor song & playing harmonium. Q&A. Yvonne Rainer present.

April 11 & 12 – Salon Jacob Burckhardt; Jacob shows Marten’s Bar, 5’, with a Sonnet by Edwin Denby, & It Don’t Pay To Be An Honest Citizen.

April 25, 26, 27 – NEAR MISS: 15’. At the invitation of Barbara Bashaw, DD & Janet Charleston work with students of Rutgers University each Friday of Spring Semester (most rehearsals at DD&D studio) culminating in three performances on mixed program at the Victoria J. Mastrobuono Theater of the Mason Gross Performing Arts Center at Rutgers; Dancers: Caitlyn Barrows, Brittany Cohen, Emily Funicello, Kara Hestevold, Victoria Hughes, Daniel Levi-Sanchez, Raena Smith, Madeline Warriner, Mark Willis (graduate of Montclair State, performed in Aubade), N’Talia Wilson. (Janet replaced the injured Victoria in all three shows.); Musicians: Bill Cole, didgeridoo & wooden flute; Lisette Santiago, percussion; Lighting: Jacqueline Reid

May 4, 2014 – At the invitation of Noemi Solomon, DD participates as panelist in Dancing is Talking / Talking is Dancing: Conversations in Contemporary Choreography. Other panelists: Ryan Kelly, Jennifer Lacey, Claire Bishop; At MoMA PS1, Queens NY.

June 13 – Salon: DD+D Curates Choreographers. Friday, June 13 at 8pm. “Sakya Witches” choreographed by Jules Bakshi; Performers: Jules Bakshi, Emily, Giovine, Lulu Soni; Music by Joshua Reuben Lewis. (13’). “Does Not Disappear…”, choreographed by Jin Ju Song-Begin; Performers: Giulia Carotenuto & Jin Ju Song-Begin; Music: Byungki Hwang.(10’); “MERTSEGER”; choreographed & performed by: Kira Blazek; Music: Aaron Robinson (8’); “Tomorrow Queen”; choreographed by Paul Singh; Performers: Paul Singh & Caitlin Scranton; Music: Paul Singh (15’); “Janet” choreographed by Christopher Williams; Performers: Janet Charleston, Jason Collins, Maximillian-Cappelli-King, Zachary Denison, Robert Maynard, Jake Szczypek; Music: Stephan Micus; Costumes: Ciera Wells; (10’)

June 14 & 15 - Salon: DD+D Curates Choreographers. Saturday and Sunday, June 14th and 15th at 8pm. “Sakya Witches” Choreographed by Jules Bakshi. Performers: Jules Bakshi, Emily, Giovine, Lulu Soni; Music by Joshua Reuben Lewis. (13 minutes). “Neverend” Choreograhy and Performed by Jin Ju Song-Begin. Music: Jerome Begin. Poem: Hide and Seek by Douglas Dunn. (17 minutes). “Tomorrow Queen” Choreographed by Paul Singh, Performers: Paul Singh and Caitlin Scranton. Music: Paul Singh. (15 minutes). “MERTSEGER” Choreographed and performed by: Kira Blazek. Music: Aaron Robinson. (8 minutes). “Janet” Choreographed by Christopher Williams, Performers: Janet Charleston, Jason Collins, Maximillian-Cappelli-King, Zachary Denison, Robert Maynard and Jake Szczypek. Music: Stephan Micus Costumes: Ciera Wells. (10 minutes)

June 22 to 29 – DD in residence at Naropa University, Boulder, Colorado, as part of the Summer Writing Program, Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. DD teaches weeklong workshop called “Writing While Dancing; reads from Dancer Out of Sight; dances Shovel Dance with Steen Taylor playing live; records Shovel Dance on Video on sidewalk in front of main building, street workers in background.

July 30 – NEAR MISS; At the invitation of Barbara Bashaw, Rutgers, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Masson Gross Summer Series, Victoria J. Mastrobuono Theater; Part I: (15’); Choreography: Douglas Dunn; Music: Bill Cole & Lisette Santiago; Performers: Jules Bakshi, Caitlyn Barrows, Brittany Cohen, Emily Funicello, Kara Hestevold, Daniel Levi-Sanchez, Crystal Rodriquez, Yara Travieso, Mark Willis, N’Talia Wilson; Part II: 30’, DD+D, Choreography: Douglas Dunn; Music: Bach Cello Suites performed by Ha-Yang Kim; Performers: Jules Bakshi, Alexandra Berger, Douglas Dunn, Emily Pope, Paul Singh, Jake Szczypek, Timothy Ward.

August 18 - VAIN COMBAT at Astor Place; Dancers: Jules Bakshi, Timothy Ward, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Paul Singh.

August 20  - VAIN COMBAT at Petrosino Square, at the intersection of Spring St & Lafayette; Dancers: Jules Bakshi, Timothy Ward, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Paul Singh.

August 25 to 31 - VAIN COMBAT At the invitation of Gianni Jetzer and Chris Sharp, DD&D participates in Le Mouvement: Performing the City, a festival in Biel, Switzerland; DD & company members Jules Bakshi, Paul Singh & Jin Ju Song-Begin train local dancers to fill out the cast for Vain Combat; the dance is then shown three times a day over four days on the streets of Biel; three different half-hours scores are used. Local Dancers: Angela Stoecklin, Cosima Grand, Dominique Misterli-Terzi, Klara Morhain, Reut Nahum, Margaux Monetti, Filippo Armati, Silena Bertolino, and Jessica Haener.

September 22 - VAIN COMBAT in front of The Smoke Joint in Fort Greene, Brooklyn; Dancers: Timothy Ward, Jules Bakshi, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Emily Block, Tony Bordonaro.

September 24 - VAIN COMBAT at Petrosino Square, at the intersection of Spring St & Lafayette. Dancers: Timothy Ward, Jules Bakshi, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Emily Block,Tony Bordonaro.

September 26 - VAIN COMBAT at 9th Street and 6th Avenue. Dancers: Timothy Ward, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Emily Block, Emily Pope.

September 29 - VAIN COMBAT at Union Square. Dancers:  Timothy Ward, Jules Bakshi, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Emily Block, Emily Pope.

September 30 - VAIN COMBAT at Petrosino Square, at the intersection of Spring St & Lafayette. Dancers: Timothy Ward, Jules Bakshi, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Emily Block, Emily Pope.

October 18 – Salon James Klosty; Book Launch for his new book titled John Cage Was; Musicians: Cleek Schrey, fiddle; Ivan Goff, uilleann pipes; Judith Berkson, pump organ; Dancers: dancing NARROW ANGLE: Jules Bakshi, Jin Ju Song-Begin, and Yara Travieso; October 19th Birthdays of DD & Alison Granucci also noted with cakes, & they dance together for two minutes to music.

October 24 - VAIN COMBAT at Petrosino Square, at the intersection of Spring St & Lafayette. Dancers: Jules Bakshi, Tony Bordonaro, Emily Block, Emily Pope, (DD in Antennae costume).

October 29 -VAIN COMBAT at Petrosino Square, at the intersection of Spring St & Lafayette.

October 30 -VAIN COMBAT at Petrosino Square, at the intersection of Spring St & Lafayette.

November 1 & 2 - At the invitation of Claudia Moore, assisted by Natasha Powell of Dance Umbrella, DD & Steven Taylor lead workshop, Music & Dance: Friends or Enemies?, at Dancemakers Centre for Creation, 9 Trinity Street, Toronto ON, both days 11AM - 4PM; participants: Musicians: Adele Armin, Pierre Mongeon, Laurel MacDonald; Dancers: Amanda Davis, Jennifer Dick, Emma Letki, Sara Porter, Brenda Rundle, Megan English; Claudia Moore participated on Sunday; workshop organized, as are the Older & Reckless shows, by Dance Umbrella of Ontario, Natasha Powell, facilitator.

November 3 - At the invitation of Pat Fraser, DD & Steven Taylor lead Workshop at Toronto Dance Theater, 80 Winchester Street, Toronto; Pat Fraser the facilitator; 2:15 - 4:15; 55 students in studio theater.

November 5 - At the invitation of Carol Anderson DD leads Colloquium, 1 - 2:15, & Workshop, 2:30 - 4, at York University, Toronto; Carol Anderson, facilitator; first session, DD shows Secret of the Waterfall.

November 6 to 9 - At the invitation of Claudia Moore, DD & Steven Taylor present five shows of another iteration, (15'), of NEAR MISS, as part of Older & Reckless, at Berkeley Street Theater, 26 Berkeley Street, Toronto ON; for DD's required intro he recites "My dancing making fun..." paragraph from I'm Dancing; then dancing "ugly/ambivalent," then Shovel, then Aidos Trio Phrase, & on as necessary to fill ST's 12-minute score; shovel provided by Claudia Moore.

November 4 -VAIN COMBAT at Petrosino Square, at the intersection of Spring St & Lafayette.

November 5 -VAIN COMBAT at Petrosino Square, at the intersection of Spring St & Lafayette.

November 6 -VAIN COMBAT at Petrosino Square, at the intersection of Spring St & Lafayette.

November 7 -VAIN COMBAT at Petrosino Square, at the intersection of Spring St & Lafayette.

November 16 – At the invitation of Sylvère Lotringer, DD & Steven Taylor show 10-minute version of NEAR MISS in the tent at MoMA PS1 as part of The Return of Schizo-Culture; includes Shovel Dance.

December 1 - At the invitation of Music Professor Esther Lamneck, DD and nine out of thirteen of the students in his Fall Semester New York University Open Structures Class dance in three pieces of the NYU New Music Ensemble evening entitled "Florence to New York Project 2014," presented by NYU's Steinhardt Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions, in the Frederick Loewe Theatre, 35 West Fourth Street, NYC. Dancers: DD, Tanja Andersson-Lidberg, Tal Aronson, Sarah Dahlin Klein, Etsuko Hamada, Ida Linner, Linda Lundqvist, Maria Malanga, Danielle Anne Staropoli, Maria Kristina Wennberg, Kimberly Yancheson.

December 4 & 6 – DD being honored with Lifetime Achievement Award, DD&D show yet another version of NEAR MISS as part of American Dance Guild Performance Festival at The Ailey Citigroup Theater, NYC; Dancers: DD, Jules Bakshi, Alexandra Berger, Emily Pope, Paul Singh, Jake Szczypek, Timothy Ward. DD in cardboard “penguin” with WWI helmet, desultory plaintive vocalization; Emily Pope solo to aria “Je ne sais quelle ardeur” from Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro sung by Leïla Ben Sédira; Aidos Men’s Trio; Aidos Sextet, DD entering near end in hat and top of Pulcinella costume.

December 4-7, - RV: Solo for Janet Charleston, commissioned by her. Music: John Dowland, Fernando Sor, Francois Couperin. Part of the American Dance Guild Performance Festival 2014 at The Alvin Ailey Citigroup Theater, NYC.

December 11 – Salon; Screening of The Myth of Modern Dance (1981), video collaboration between Douglas Dunn & Charles Atlas; Q&A; NYU Open Structure students in attendance.

2015

January 9 – Salon AIDOS; Preview at 541 Broadway at 8pm; Dancers: Douglas Dunn, Jules Bakshi, Alexandrea Berger, Jessica Martineau, Emily Pope, Paul Singh, JinJu Song-Begin, Jake Szczypek, Timothy Ward. Sections performed: Quartet – Suite 1, Allemande – Jules, Alexandrea, Emily, Jake. Trio – Suite 1, Sarabande – Douglas, Paul, Timothy. Arm Circles w/ Duo – Suite 4, Prelude – All but DD. Duo continues – Suite 5, Sarabande – Jessica, JinJu. Crossing Duo- Suite 6, Sarabande – Jules, Timothy. Sextet – Suite 6, Allemande – All. Audio: CD Bach Cello Suites recording by Guido Schiefen. For this preview dancers wear rehearsal clothing.

February 11, 12, 13, 14 & 15 - AIDOS (70’); at BAM Fisher, Brooklyn, NY; 6 performances. Choreography: Douglas Dunn; Dancers: Douglas Dunn, Jules Bakshi, Alexandra Berger, Jessica Martineau, Emily Pope, Paul Singh, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Jake Szczypek, Timothy Ward; Musician: Ha-Yang Kim; Music: J.S. Bach; Costume & Set Piece Design: Andrew Jordan; Costume Construction: Quinndustry; Lighting Design: Carol Mullins; Company Manager & Production Coordinator: Jules Bakshi; Assistant Company Manager and Front of House Manager: Janet Charleston; Production Stage Manager/Assistant Lighting Designer: Lauren Parrish; Assistant Stage Manager: Rachel Jacquin; Company Rehearsal Assistant: Grazia Della-Terza; Sections for Aidos from Cello Suites by Johann Sebastian Bach, performed by Ha-Yang Kim in the following order: Suite 2, Sarabande; Suite 4 Sarabande; Suite 1 Sarabande; Suite 1, Allemande; Suite 6, Sarabande, Suite 6, Allemande; Suite 4, Prelude; Suite 5, Sarabande; Suite 1 Menuett; Suite 1, Prelude; Suite 3, Sarabande; Suite 2, Courante. 

February 28; 6-10 pm; Elaine Summers Memorial, “Absence & Presence” at Judson Memorial Church, New York, NY; DD dances with Jon Gibson live on flute to Elaine Summers film titled “Windows in the Kitchen” from 1977.

March 14 & 15 - Salon, 541 Broadway, NYC "Jaguar Harmonics" - a collaborative performance featuring Anne Waldman; Musicians: Daniel Carter, Ha-Yang Kim, Devin Brahja Waldman, Ambrose Bye, Michael Bisio; Dancers: Jules Bakshi, Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn; Images by Kiki Smith.

March 22 - At the invitation of Sally Silvers, DD appears in cameo role improvising briefly with Sally in her evening length company piece “Actual Size Plus," part of the 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Festival, March 20-22. Choreography/Direction: Sally Silvers; Sound Design & Text: Bruce Andrews; Composer/Musician: Michael J. Schumacher; Scenic Design & Video: Ursula Scherrer; Lighting Design: Joe Lavasseur; Costume Design: Elizabeth Hope Clancy. Cameo Performances on Friday: John Jasperse; Saturday: Jennifer Monson; Sunday Matinee: Douglas Dunn.

April 17, 18, 19, TWO STEP (6’) -  premier; part of NYU Distinguished Faculty Dance Concert held at the Frederick Loewe Theater in New York City, featuring works by Martie Barylick, Kelvin Cooper, Deborah Damast, Diane Duggan, Douglas Dunn, Kim Elliott, Carla Flores, Susan R. Koff & Belinda Saenz; Guest faculty: Bagonza Herman. Rehearsal Director: Janet Charleston. DD’s piece danced by Michelle Cole & Meggi Sweeney Smith; Music, “Les Barricades Mystérieuses” by François Couperin.

April 28,  Salon - Film screening of documentary “Interlaced Dance Journey” featuring Wilfride Piollet & Jean Guizerix; Presented by Micheline Lelièvre, Jean Guizerix & DD. Dancing by DD, Jules Bakshi, JinJu Song-Begin.

June 11 – Salon: Nepal Relief Benefit Salon hosted by the Bakshi Family; an evening of photography, music and choreography to benefit Nepal; photos by Jules & Ken Bakshi; performances by DD, solo, & Subtle Details Dance Theater: Jules Bakshi, Emily Pope & Lulu Soni; projections by Avery McCarthy & music by Elias Meister. $6,000 raised.

June 26, 27 & 28 , RUINS (20’) - premier; part of an evening presented by Christopher Williams Spirits of The Air & Heroes held at 92Y in New York City at Buttenweiser Hall; performances on Friday, June 26 & Saturday, June 27 at 8pm, Sunday, June 28th at 3pm; Dancers: Douglas Dunn, Jules Bakshi, Tony Bordonaro, Alexandra Berger, Giulia Carotenuto, Peter Chamberlin, Grazia Della-Terza, Jessica Martineau, Emily Pope, Jake Szczypek, Paul Singh, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Timothy Ward, Mark Willis; Rehearsal Director: Janet Charleston; Music: Steven Taylor; Musicians: Jessica Schmitz on flute, Alicia Lee on clarinet, Ha-Yang Kim on cello, Steven Taylor on guitar.

June 29 to July 15 – DD in Vietnam with John & Felicity McLaughlin to meet musicians of the Gong Culture for performance in Perth, Australia, February 6, 2016.

September 25 to 27 – DD accompanies Charles Atlas to for opening of latter’s installation of work featuring DD; hosted by the presenter, The Contemporary Austin, Austin TX. Title of exhibition: “Strange Pilgrims,” September 27, 2015 to January 24, 2016.

October 6, Salon - at the invitation of Princeton Alumni New York City (PANYC), headed by Tom Gerson; catered meal by Marja Samsom; Paul Singh dances Aidos trio phrase as solo to Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1, Sarabande; Alexandra Berger dances No Man’s Land, solo made for Ella Rosewood, to Clint Black’s A Bad Goodbye; DD dances to Anton Karas’s Third Man Theme; Alexandra & Paul dance Two Step to Couperin’s Les Barricades Mystérieuses; pause, move chairs to face screen; showing of Bio video put together by Sandra Gibson & Jules Bakshi, DD narrates live.

October 25 – DD&D at WeisAcres, hosted by Cathy Weis, 537 Broadway, Third Floor; variation on lecture dem format used at The New School & in Woodstock; Order of Bits: as audience enters, Bio video rolling (no sound), directly into Shovel video (no sound), all the while DD making new phrase on Jules & Jin Ju & Tom Haviv reading from DD’s Aidos & Genoese Days---we hold while Cathy introduces the evening---DD adds to phrase as Glen Fogel’s edit rolls (with sound); when Glen Edit finishes, Jules & Jin Ju show the new phrase twice---Alexandra & Paul dance Two Step---DD solo to Anton Karas’s Third Man Theme---31 minutes of Vain Combat with Steven Taylor new score---Discussion.

October 28 - DD one-hour interview with James Carroll for New Arts Live, at BCTV, Reading, PA (drove down with Steve Shaw); in anticipation of gallery exhibit & performance presented by New Arts Program, Fall 2016. DVD of interview in archive and program is also on the web as of November 6, 2015.

November 14 – Salon Ed Bowes; he shows Gold Hill & Against the Slope of Social Speech.

December 4 & 5,  Salon - Douglas Dunn Curates Choreographers, Friday & Saturday December 4th &  5th, 2015 at 8pm. Order of program: ROOT (excerpt), Choreography: Jin Ju Song-Begin Dancers: David Gonsier (USA), Camille Lélu (France), Pavel Machuca (Belarus), Marija Obradovic (Serbia), Erke Roosen (Netherlands) Music: Jerome Begin, Violin Jennifer Choi, 12 min;  Il Giardino d’Amore (excerpts), Choreography: Christopher Williams, Dancer: Andrew Champlin Music: Excerpts from Il Giardino di Amore by Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725) featuring Catherine Gayer recorded with the Munich Chamber Orchestra conducted by Hans Stadlmair, Costume Design: Andrew Jordan, 6 min; Eternal, Choreography, Dance and Sound: Paul Singh, Special Thanks: Jye-Hwei Lin, 7 min; BUCKET BATH, Choreography: Jules Bakshi Dancers: Jules Bakshi and Lulu Soni, Music: Jules Bakshi + Alexander Mintz, Costumes and Set: Nanse Kawashima, 7.5 min; phrase in progress, choreography: Douglas Dunn, dancer: Alexandra Berger, music: Clint Black, A Bad Goodbye.

2016

January 17, Salon - Tour Preview, Sunday, January 17th, 2016 at 1, 3, & 5pm. 541 Broadway, NYC. In anticipation of the Company tour to San Francisco (January 21-29, 2016) that celebrates the collaborations of Douglas Dunn & David Ireland (1930 – 2009), DD+D shows excerpts of a revived version of Stucco Moon for six dancers & excerpts from two dances to be performed at the Canning World Arts Exchange in Perth, Australia on February 6, 2016. Choreography: Douglas Dunn; Dancers: Jules Bakshi, Alexandra Berger, Douglas Dunn, Emily Pope, Paul Singh, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Timothy Ward; Rehearsal Director: Janet Charleston; Music for Stucco Moon: David Ireland, reworked by Steven Taylor, Music for Perth I: the Ede. Music for Perth II: Taikoz; Costumes: Andrew Jordan; Management: Jules Bakshi; Archivist: Sandra Gibson; Historian: Grazia Della-Terza.

January 22, 6-8pm, DIVERSIONS - DD+D mix with the public, dancing bits made for the occasion, at opening of show of work by David Ireland at Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco Art Institute (where DI attended & later taught), San Francisco, CA; Costumes: David Ireland; Dancers: Douglas Dunn, Grazia Della-Terza, Timothy Ward, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Alexandra Berger, Emily Pope, Jules Bakshi, Paul Singh.

January 24, VAIN COMBAT - danced on the sidewalks & streets outside David Ireland’s house at 500 Capp Street, San Francisco, followed by reception inside the house, now a museum; Dancers: Jules Bakshi, Alexandra Berger, Timothy Ward, Paul Singh, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Emily Pope. 

January 26 - Practicum/movement workshop for Helina Metafaria’s “The Artist Body” San Francisco Art Institute graduate class. Douglas Dunn, Grazia Della-Terza, Jules, Bakshi, Paul Singh.

January 27 - STUCCO MOON - performance of reworked version of Stucco Moon at PianoFight, 144 Taylor Street, San Francisco; Dancers: Douglas Dunn, Grazia Della-Terza, Timothy Ward, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Alexandra Berger, Emily Pope, Jules Bakshi, Paul Singh; Costumes: David Ireland; Score, David Ireland, reworked by Stephan Taylor.

January 28, HIDE AND SEEK – DD+D among guests dancing bits made for the occasion inside David Ireland’s house/museum at 500 Capp Street, San Francisco; Dancers: Douglas Dunn, Grazia Della-Terza, Timothy Ward, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Alexandra Berger, Emily Pope, Jules Bakshi, Paul Singh.

January 29 - Lec/dem for graduate students and public at San Francisco Art Institute lecture hall; Grazia narrates early life of David Ireland with projections; DD & GDT narrate collaborations with DI as video continues; showing of excerpts from revised version of Stucco Moon; Dancers: Timothy Ward, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Alexandra Berger, Emily Pope, Jules Bakshi, Paul Singh; Q&A.

February 6 – Outdoor Performance at The Canning World Arts Exchange Festival City of Canning, Perth, Australia. 12-minute dance with Taikoz Drummers of Sydney; 12-minutes dance with Ede Gong Group of Vietnam; as part of Canning World Arts Exchange, UNESCO Vietnamese Ede Gong Culture Festival; Costumes: Andrew Jordan; Dancers: Douglas Dunn, Grazia Della-Terza, Jules Bakshi, Alexandra Berger, Timothy Ward, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Emily Pope, Paul Singh; also on program: Link Dancers from Perth, and Canning's own Community Choir.

March 4 & 5 – Salon Sara Porter, “Sara Does a Solo”. Evening length solo by Canadian dance artist Sara Porter.

April 2 & 3,  NO MAN’S LAND (8’) - premier at 92 Y, NYC; made by DD on commission for, and danced by, Ella Rosewood. Rehearsal Director: Janet Charleston.

April 3, 10, 17 – WINDOWS, part of "Time Travel with Madame Xenogamy" DD+D Participation in Cathy Weis’s Sundays On Broadway event, 537 Broadway. Participants: Kevin Lovelady, & Douglas Dunn + Dancers: Jules Bakshi, Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn, Kevin McKewan, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Jessica Martineau, Tim Ward; Costumes: Andrew Jordan.

April 15, 16, 17, JUNIPER (8’) - premier at NYU Steinhardt Distinguished Faculty Concert; on mixed program; at the Frederick Loewe Theater, 35 West 4th Street, NYC; Dancers (NYU graduate students): Brittney Brown, Gabrielle Gilchrist, Chie Kurokawa, Kevin McEwen, Yeji Moon, Wipavee Patoompong. Rehearsal Director: Janet Charleston. Music: Lionheart, singing Ojos Claros & Serenos and Sancta Et Immaculate byFrancisco Guerrero, and Offertory: Ave Maria, a Gregorian Chant.

May 16 – Tour Review Party, 6-9pm, 541 Broadway. A show & tell about tour to San Francisco and Perth; company members & friends.

May 22 – “Evolving Collaborations”, 6pm at Cathy Weis’s Sundays On Broadway event at 537 Broadway. An evening exploring 40 years of collaboration between Mimi Gross & DD.

May 31, June 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5,  SOLO SALON, ETC - Two shows each evening, 7pm & 9pm; this Salon presents fluctuating arrays of solos, duets and trios drawn from Douglas's 45 years of organizing bodies aesthetically to be viewed; Dancers: Douglas Dunn, Grazia Della-Terza, Jules Bakshi, Alexandra Berger, Janet Charleston, Emily Pope, Paul Singh, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Jake Szczypek, Christopher Williams. Lighting by Carol Mullins, Set by Mimi Gross.

June 9 – DD+D collaborates with composer/musician Bill Cole as part of the Vision Festival at Judson Church, 55 Washington Square South. UnTemperd Trio “Revisions”; Dancers: Douglas Dunn, Jules Bakshi, Jessica Martineau, Emily Pope, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Paul Singh. Music: Bill Cole – double reeds, didgeridoo, Ras Moshe – reeds, Lisette Santiago – percussion.

July 11 to 15 & 18 to 22,  DISAPPEARANCES - each day, noon to 12:30 at plaza at Cedar & Broadway, 12:30 to 1 at Chase Plaza. Performers, not all each day: Douglas Dunn, Michelle Applebaum, Jules Bakshi, Grazia Della-Terza, Carlye Denice, Dina Denis, Maira Duarte, Chie Kurokawa, Maja Lorkovic, Pavel Machuca, Alice MacIntyre, Alex Pfister, Emily Pope, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Danielle Staropoli, and Lex Stavrou.

“It’s 1994 and Douglas Dunn + Dancers is short of money. I think of Wall Street, right down Broadway from the studio, no shortage there. How address a whopping discrepancy of available wealth? Disappearances emerges. The instructions for the piece are to mix with the lunchtime crowd in the plaza at Broadway and Liberty for half an hour, then move to the Chase Plaza one block east for another half hour. Any behavior, dance or otherwise, is acceptable, but you are obliged not to be noticed as performer.  If you are so noticed, you are to dissolve into a position or gesture or movement that reestablishes you as worker-on-break, or as tourist. If asked what you are doing, you are to lie your way back into contextual familiarity.

Impecuniousness strikes again like lightening here in 2016. Should Company operations cease completely? No. What, therefore, could be more felicitous than to remount this insubstantial protest, this wan gesture meant through contradictory evanescence to fulfill the promise to myself never to complain? A second time around, twenty-four years of living and dancing later, are we not better prepared to appreciate the subtleties of the interactions? Our attitude, the facial expressions with which we move, for example, often determine whether we remain acceptable as legitimate personae within New York City’s glorious anonymity, or suddenly stick out, like that phantom limb of the body politic, the Dancer. 

Further writing on Disappearances will appear in a forthcoming issue of Tether.  tether-magazine.com”

 August 5 - VAIN COMBAT - As one of the inaugural recipients of The Washington Square Park Conservancy Arts Mini-Grants, DD+D performed Vain Combat at Washington Square Park. Dancers: Jules Bakshi, Alexandra Berger, Emily Bock, Douglas Dunn, Tony Bordonaro, Emily Pope, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Jane Szczypek and Timothy Ward. Janet Charleston, Grazia Della-Terza as Space Chickens. Sandra Gibson as Zebra, Luis Recoder as Antennae Man: Costumes/Wranglers: Andrew Jordan & Kara Hestevold.

September 9 & 10 – At the invitation of James Carroll, New Arts Program, Kutztown, PA; hour-long, one-on-one conversations between students and DD. 9am to 4:30pm.

September 9, 6-9 pm – At the invitation of James Carroll, artists opening reception for Douglas Dunn: American Modern Dancer exhibition at NAP Space Gallery, Kutztown, PA.

September 9 – October 30th At the invitation of James Carroll, exhibit of DD+D archival materials in NAP Space Gallery; title of exhibition, Douglas Dunn: American Modern Dancer. Gallery hours: Friday/Saturday/Sunday 11-3pm.

September 17 – At the invitation of Judy Hussie-Taylor of Danspace Project, DD+D dance VAIN COMBAT as part of the Astor Place Astor Alive Festival! Dancers: Timothy Ward, Jake Szczypek, Emily Bock, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Alexandra Berger, Emily Pope; Grazia Della-Terza & Andrew Jordan perform in his Space Chicken costumes, Kara Hestevold in his Zebra.

September 23 & 24, INFOLDING (60’); - at the invitation of Ted Wojtasik, DD+D dance on the occasion of the Black Mountain College Music Festival in Laurenberg, NC, at the Morris Morgan Theater, LA Building, Dancers: Douglas Dunn, Grazia Della-Terza, Jules Bakshi, Alexandra Berger, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Emily Pope, Timothy Ward, Jake Szczypek.

October 1, INFOLDING -  at the invitation of James Carroll, New Arts Program, DD+D dance at St. John’s UCC, performance at 7pm followed by a reception.

October 18 – At the invitation of Jack Waters & Peter Cramer, Paul Singh & Christopher Williams dance a shortened version of their floor duet from Aubade, as part of the PLATFRM 2016 - LOST & FOUND; Music: Steven Taylor, live.

October 28, Salon Steven Taylor - Steven Taylor sings selections from William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience showing The Two Contrary States of the Human Soul (published 1794)

December 12 – At the invitation of Professor Esther Lamneck, DD dances with members of his NYU Steinhardt Open Structures class: Lauren Alzoz-Benke, Daria Margaret Fitzgerald, Paula Katsanos, Aliya Kerimujiang, Jacqueline Ledesma, in concert of NYU Music and Dance Ensemble in NYU’s Loewe Theater, 35 West 4th Street, NYC.  

2017

January 1 – DD dances at Poetry Project Benefit, St. Mark’s Church, with Steven Taylor guitar and voice.

February 2, 3 & 4, on commission, at the invitation of Judy Hussie-Taylor, ANTIPODES (65’) - at Danspace Project, St. Mark’s Church, NYC; Dancers: Douglas Dunn, Grazia Della-Terza, Timothy Ward, Christopher Williams, Jake Szczypek, Jules Bakshi, Emily Pope, Alexandra Berger, Jin-Ju Song-Begin; Rehearsal Director: Janet Charleston; Design, costumes & set (birds): Mimi Gross; DD costumes by Andrew Jordan after ideas by DD; original music played live by Steven Taylor & Laura Brenneman; Additional Music: Shawn O’Sullivan, Katie O’Sullivan; Lighting: Carol Mullins; with Grazia Della-Terza as The Moon, & DD as The White Dwarf.

February 10,11,12 - Metal and RV,a commissioned solo performed by Janet Charleston, at El Centro Cultural Los Talleres, Mexico City.

March 10 - Grazia & Douglas dance one-minute duo for Larry Fagin at Beth Israel Hospital, New York City

April 14 & 15, RAIN SHADOW (8’) - for some of DD’s 2016 NYU students, on the NYU Distinguished Faculty Concert, at Loewe Theater, 35 West 4th Street; Dancers: Whitley Green, Jacqueline Ledesma/Kara Hestevold, Miguel Lerma, Aliya Kerimujiang, Belle Ritter. Rehearsal Director: Janet Charleston. Music: Steven Taylor.

April 29 – At the invitation of Deborah Riley, Grazia Della-Terza & DD dance for a few minutes on a mixed program in celebration of Deborah’s retirement as Director of Dance Place, Washington DC; Deborah was a member of DD+D in the 1970s & '80s.

May 20 – WHILE AWAY (4½’) - At the invitation of Catherine Tharin, DD+D participates in “Dig Dance: Thirty year Fridays at Noon Celebration,” at 92Y, NYC. DD dances to David Simons’ Estonian piece as Jules Bakshi, Alexandra Berger, Emily Pope, Paul Singh, Timothy Ward, Christopher Williams wait on floor in couples; DD ends, they get up slowly in silence using new material, then dance Codex from Sky Eye. Rehearsal Director: Janet Charleston.

May 31 – DD participates in Thematic Roundtable Event at the Italian Cultural Institute as part of IDACO: The Italian Dance Connection 2017; discussion facilitated by Cecilia Fontanesi.

June 2 – OH ACIS (10’); premier; on mixed program as part of The Italian Dance Connection 2017; at the Baruch Performing Arts Center, NYC. Dancers: Douglas Dunn, Emily Pope, Paul Singh; Music: excerpts from Polifemo by Giovanni Battista Bononcini.

June 3 – At the invitation of Jordan Andrew & Julia Gleich of Norte Maar, DD+D participate, with other groups, in Brooklyn Performance Combine at The Muse in Bushwick, Brooklyn; Dancers: Douglas Dunn, Grazia Della-Terza, Jules Bakshi, Alexandra Berger, Janet Charleston, Kara Hestevold, Emily Pope, Paul Singh, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Jake Szczypek, Timothy Ward; Mimi Gross sat at a station from which her ongoing drawing was projected. 

June 6 -  Showing of The Myth of Modern Dance & Secret of the Waterfall at Spectacle Theater in Williamsburg, Brooklyn; Charles Atlas & DD present; Q&A.

August 7-11, OH ACIS (10’) - the trio shown as part of Susana B. Williams’ Dance-Forms Production’s 24th International Choreographer’s Showcase at the Emerald Theaters/Greenside Venues, as part of the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh; Dancers: Douglas Dunn, Emily Pope, Paul Singh; Music: excerpts from Polifemo by Giovanni Battista Bononcini; the five shows on consecutive days were at 9:15am.

September – VAIN COMBAT; the month dedicated to the outdoor dance, the number of outings was reduced in order to rehearse for the tour to Milton; Kelsie Koontz stayed at the loft & facilitated the work; the outings were advertised on the website & via social media; the be-there-when-you-can cast: Timothy Ward, Christopher Williams, Jake Szczypek, Paul Singh, Dare Ayorinde, Emily Pope, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Alexandra Berger, Jules Bakshi, Kara Hestevold; Shows: 1st, south & north ends of Union Square Park; 2nd, south end & north end of Sheep Meadow, north end of The Great Lawn; 7th, plaza at Cedar & Broadway, Battery Park Waterfront; 9th, Father Demo Square, Christopher Street Pier, in front of Whitney Museum; 14th, Washington Square Park, 2 runs; 16th, Tomkins Square Park, 2 runs; 18th, Astor Place in front of Chase Bank; 23rd, Brooklyn Museum, plus two locations in Prospect Park, the large field south of Grand Army Plaza, & City Green Space west of Boat House; 25th, Madison Square Park, 2 runs; 27th, in front of Barclay’s Center.

September 29 – CONTOURS (60’); at the invitation of Brice Brown, DD+D dances in the Milton Art Bank in Milton, PA; the piece includes Oh Acis & bits of Antipodes worked to fit the space, in which there is an installation, Electric Shadows, by Sandra Gibson & Luis Recoder; Dancers: Douglas Dunn, Grazia Della-Terza, Kara Hestevold (dancing some of Jin Ju Song-Begin’s parts), Jules Bakshi, Alexandra Berger, Emily Pope, Paul Singh, Jake Szczypek, Timothy Ward, Christopher Williams; Live Music: Steven Taylor.

September 30 – VAIN COMBAT; again at the invitation of Brice Brown, on the streets of Milton, PA; beginning at 140 South Front Street, audience follows the dancers, five locations, about five minutes of dancing at each; at the last, Steven Taylor is set up on the street with music; Dancers: Kara Hestevold, Jules Bakshi, Alexandra Berger, Emily Pope, Paul Singh, Jake Szczypek, Timothy Ward, Christopher Williams, Jin Ju Song-Begin; Grazia Della-Terza & Kelsie Koontz as Space Chickens, DD as Zebra, the costumes by Andrew Jordan.

October 26 - 6pm; at the invitation of Sandra Gibson & Luis Recoder, DD choreographs, at a distance, via video, for students of the Performance Art department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago for a live 70-minute dance performance for Tense Nature: The Changeover System. This event was hosted by Conversations at the Edge Series at the Gene Siskel Theater in Chicago. Performers: Helen Lee, Katie Lynn O’Neill, Zachary Sun, Angeliki Chaido Tsoli, Cherrie Yu Concept: Gibson + Recoder Audio: Brian Case.

November 29 – OH ACIS; at Dixon Place, NYC, as part of “8 in Show”; Dancers: Douglas Dunn, Emily Pope, Paul Singh; Music: excerpts from Polifemo by Giovanni Battista Bononcini.

December 4 - At the invitation of Professor Esther Lamneck, DD dances with members of his NYU Steinhardt Open Structures Class; Dancers: Ashley Girgenti, Dong Li, Wei Lu, Tara Pederson, Alycia Perrin-Rodriguez, Danielle Peters, Chanda Thornton, Yuting Wang, in concert of NYU Music and Dance Ensemble in NYU’s Loewe Theater, 35 West 4th Street, NYC.  

December 9 – Salon Ed Bowes; premiere screening of Seahorse Power Room with Q&A followed by Q&A.

2018

Jan 1 – DD performs with Steven Taylor at the Poetry Project Benefit at St. Mark’s Church; Steven plays guitar & sings Dowland’s Come again, sweet love doth thou invite; during first verse, DD, in very fake reddish wig, moves in, & removes, fur coat; second verse, he moves in, & removes, ankle length brown dress, revealing bright red tights & top with falsies; third verse, Grazia has strolled down the aisle, offers male arm position for social dancing, they lamely dance a bit.

April 2-7, DD performs solo TIME OUT (1973) (60’), part of the April Festival - Early & Late, at 541 Broadway. Q&A with Deborah Jowitt & DD after first Time Out performance on Monday, April 2, 2018.

April 13-15, TANDEMETTE (10’) NYU Steinhardt Distinguished Faculty Concert; premiere; on a mixed program with works by other Faculty members. Dancers: NYU dance education students Hannah Castoro, Jacqueline Ledesma, Jessica Moore Ruhlin, Chie Shultz. Rehearsal Director: Janet Charleston. Music: Peer Gynt Suites Nos. 1 & 2 by Edvard Grieg. Frederick Loewe Theater, 35 West 4th Street, NYC. In first two shows Janet Charleston replaces Jessica Moore Ruhlin.

April 19, Salon Larry Fagin Memorial at 541 Broadway; DD+D dance as audience enters the room: DD, Jules Bakshi, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Janet Charleston, Jake Szczypek, Kara Hestevold, Paul Singh, Emily Pope, Christopher Williams, Grazia Della-Terza. Readers: Susan Noel, Barbara Stone, Ron Padgett, Carol Mullins, Charles North, Gillian McCain, Miles Champion, Carol Szamatowicz. Video: Joe E. Jefferys and Ken “Angel” Davis, Jenni Quilter, Alan Bernheimer, Tetra Balestri, John Godfrey, Sylvia Mae Gorelick, Porter Fox. Organizers: Kostas Anagnopoulos & Anne Stevenson.

April 20, Friday’s at Noon 92Y, NYC. Stephen Petronio Company dances Merce Cunningham’s Signals followed by conversation with Nancy Dalva, DD, Rashaun Mitchell and Valda Setterfield. 

April 23-28, TANDEM, Premiere at 541 Broadway. Part of the April Festival - Early & Late. Dancers: DD, Jules Bakshi, Alexandra Berger, Emily Pope, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Paul Singh, Jake Szczypek, Timothy Ward, Christopher Williams. Q&A with Wendy Perron & DD after second show on Tuesday, April 24, 2018. Rehearsal Director and Sound & Lighting Technician: Janet Charleston. Music: Inedit Musique de l’Islam d’Asie; Italian Treasury: Calabria; Folk Music and Song of Italy; Music Mexico & Kahlo; IRAK: L’art du ‘oud – Munir Bashir; Syrian Orthodox Church; The Secret of the Roan Inish.

May 17 – 19, at the acceptance of Amanda Selwyn, TANDEMETTE (10’); on mixed program at the Footprints Fourth Annual Modern Dance Festival, in the Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater, 5 West 63rd  Street, NYC; Dancers: Timothy Ward, Jake Szczypek, Emily Pope, Alexandra Berger; Rehearsal Director: Janet Charleston. Music: fading in & out of Calabrian folk singing. Costumes: all yellow; yellow backdrop that turns red in three panels, stage right to left, in last few minutes.

May 25 – At the invitation of Patricia Parker, DD+D dances in the aura of the live music of Critical Response Trio: Jason Kao Hwang, violin; Anders Nilsson, guitar; Michael TA Thompson, drums; as part of the Vision Festival at Roulette, Brooklyn, NY; Dancers: Douglas Dunn, Grazia Della-Terza, Jules Bakshi, Timothy Ward, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Jake Szczypek, Emily Pope, Alexandra Berger, Janet Charleston, Kara Hestevold; 30’; Format: dance any material by DD that you know. 

May 26 & 27, Douglas Dunn Salon, Dance and Film 1960-80 Film Screenings, Part of La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival. Screened films by Yoshiko Chuma, Pooh Kaye, Elaine Summers, Joan Jonas, Yvonne Rainer, Henry Hills, Phill Niblock, John Ashbery, Rudy Burckhardt & Douglas Dunn.

June 11 – 18, at the invitation of David White, DD+D in residence at The Yard on Martha’s Vineyard; two shows of TANDEM, June 14 & 16, at the Patricia N. Nanon Theater; Dancers: Douglas Dunn, Christopher Williams, Timothy Ward, Jake Szczypek, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Paul Singh, Emily Pope, Alexandra Berger, Jules Bakshi; DD teaches morning Workshop, “What Am I Doing?”, in Studio, all ages; showing of Secret of the Waterfall at Chilmark Library with Q&A; Janet Charleston on trip as Manager, Rehearsal Director, Sound and Lighting Technician.

June 23, at the invitation of Robin Schatell, Curator of Public Programs at Van Alen Institute, DD+D show Wandering Duo from TANDEM (billed as TANDEMETTE) on damp grassy earth in front of temporary stage as part of FIGMENT on Governor’s Island; Dancers: Jin Ju Song-Begin, Jules Bakshi, Emily Pope, Alexandra Berger, Paul Singh, Timothy Ward, Jake Szczypek, Janet Charleston (taking Christopher Williams’ role); DD danced one-minute solo before the other began; Kara Hestevold was also present, as we were all supposed to show DISAPPEARANCES as well, but there were no crowd scenes to provide context; Joshua Fried shared the program, as did several others.

July 1, at the invitation of Nick Cave, DD+D gathers fifty friends & acquaintances to participate in his The Let Go at the Park Avenue Armory, NYC, 3:30 – 5:30pm; Performers: Christopher Williams, Ana Karimi, Atillio Rigotti, Alexandra Berger, Astrid Brucker, Barbara Campisi, Brittany Murphy, Steven Hall, Peter Chamberlin, Christine Elmo, Clive Zheng, Douglas Dunn, Breckyn Drescher, Fareen Islam, Fumihiro Kikuchi, Gabrielle Riera, Gabrielle Garevlock, Julia Gleich, Grazia Della-Terza, Richard Gomez, Hsia-Jou, Jacob Burckhardt, Janet Charleston, Jacqueline Ledesma, Jonathan Hulland, Judy Hussie-Taylor, Kimberly Erin Quillan, Maya Lorkovic, Mark Hayes, Marlaine Glicksman, Masako Uetani, Michael Esteras, Annabel Lee, Carol Mullins, Nobuko, Orsolya Sanchez, Paul Engler, Philip Foster, Dan Reardon, Robin Schatell, Emmett Schatell-Prince, JinJu Song-Begin, Sophia Isidore, Jill Twohig, Ildiko Viczian.

July 2 - 20, MWF, DD+D Company Members Timothy Ward, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Janet Charleston, Alexandra Berger, Emily Pope, Jules Bakshi, individually teach morning technique classes as auditions for INSITU cast.  

July 21,23, 25, 27, 28, 30, 31, August 1, 3, Workshops to prepare INSITU shows; Janet Charleston, Jin Ju Song-Begin & Christopher Williams, on whom DD has already made most of the material, assist DD in running the workshops & in teaching the steps; the cast is divided into three groups, each one led by one of these company dancers; in the shows, each group has its own score, sometimes overlapping with one or both groups. 

August 4 & 5, having applied and been invited by Svea Schneider, Director of INSITUSite-Specific Dance Festival, DD+D plus guest dancers show ten-minute dance PORTAL, made for, and danced on, the arbitrary stairway & asphalt ramps, & around the lonely flagpole, of Queensbridge Park, Queens, NY; three times on Saturday (first show cancelled because of rain) & four times on Sunday, three other dance groups showing in sequence in same park, three other parks along the East River also dance-inhabited under INSITU’s auspices; Dancers, wearing white shorts & white t-shirts: Company: Janet Charleston, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Christopher Williams; guests: Cherie Burnett, Maira Duarte, Rosy Gentle, Kara Hestevold, Lauren Kravitz, Fumihiro Kikuchi, Maya Lee-Parritz, Jacqueline Ledesma, Jenny Levy, Cassie Roberts Rossi, Ella Rosewood, Deborah Schneider, Rebecca Van Dover, Vanessa Vargas, Anna Witenberg, Manatsu Tenaka; Music: Jean-Philippe Rameau, Gavotte et ses Doubles; for several of the runs music is blasting from speakers brought in by picnickers, so we do not play the Rameau.

August 13, having applied & been accepted by Battery Dance Festival, DD+D dances excerpts from AIDOS on a mixed program on an outdoor platform in Battery Park City; Sections (25 minutes): Quartet; Sextet (to point where the six scurry to upstage right corner); Three Pairs; She Walks & Finale, including DD’s down left to up right crossing in red pants, red shirt, red shoes, entering as if from the audience, and & disappearing over the back edge of the platform as exit, as Jin Ju & Jessica settle in the chairs in silence; used CD, Guido Schiefen playing, Arte Nova 1996 recording, as we have no recording of Ha-Yang Kim’s version at the concerts at BAM Fisher; wore Andrew Jordan’s original costumes; Dancers: Jin Ju Song-Begin, Jessica Martineau, Jake Szczypek, Alexandra Berger, Emily Pope, Timothy Ward, Jules Bakshi, Jared Brown (dancing Paul Singh’s part).

September 12 - At the invitation of curator Sarah Möller, Rubble Dance - Long Island City (1991), the film collaboration between Rudy Burckhardt & DD, shows at SHINE / NEW YORK TRACES, -EXPANDED, Tanz und Film in New York 1960-90, one of many events in the POOL 18 Internationales TanzFilmFestial, Berlin, Dock 11. Other DD&D films on view as gallery installations are Celeste (1977) and Dancers, Buildings, and People in the Street (1986); DD present for the events from September 12 to 14.

October18 – DD’s NYU students dance at the Frederick Loewe Theater, 35 West 4th Street, as part of Ozark Henry’s on the Holodeck: maps to the Stars, an evening organized by Agnieszka Roginska of the Steinhardt Music Department; Dancers: Takako Amitani,Trashina Arwanda Conner, Shaune Myah Culmer, Christine Marie DiBrita, Nyasia Fraser, Zoe Mae Patack, Rachel Janell Schemenaur, Delaney Shorb, Brigida Valenzuela, Jai Marie Williams.

October 26 – TANDEMETTE (11') – on mixed program at the Alvin Ailey Theater, NYC, as part of the American Dance Guild Annual Festival; Dancers (wearing yellow): Alexandra Berger, Emily Pope, Jake Szczypek, Timothy Ward; and DD, who added (wearing red) a diagonal of about 30 seconds, starting upstage left and ending passing through the four standing still dancers downstage right; Music: Calabrian Folk Song.

November 7 - DIAGONAL GAIT (15’) – On a mixed program at Dance@DMAC (Duo Multicultural Arts Center), 62 East 4th Street, NYC; Recorded music: Bach played by Segovia, plus three verses of Boots of Spanish Leather by Bob Dylan sung by Nanci Griffith; Dancers: Jake Szczypek, Emily Pope, Timothy Ward (replacing Paul Singh, out with injury), JinJu Song-Begin, Kara Hestevold, Acée Francis Laird, Christopher Williams, Janet Charleston, Douglas Dunn.

November 18 – At the invitation of Cathy Weis, DD dances brief solo, brief duo with Vicky Shick, & briefly in the finale mix, at Weis’s Sundays on Broadway, 537 Broadway, NYC. Others on stage for this thrown-together-last-minute show: Jennifer Miller, Wendy Perron, Maura Gahan, Jonathon Gonzalez, Christine Elmo, Ashley Renee Watkins, Patrick Gallagher, Maddie Irmen, Fumi Kikuchi, Jon Kinzel, Cathy Weis. 

December 3 - 8, Curated Salon, DD+D Studio, 541 Broadway, NYC - Dances by Jin Ju Song-Begin, The Path Which Empties Me (108), Dancer: Jin Ju Song-Begin; Cori Kresgi, Most Real (excerpts), Dancers: Breckyn Drescher, Cori Kresge; Emily Pope, The Albatross, Dancer: Emily Pope; Christopher Williams, Narcissus  (excerpts from work-in-progress), Dancers: Cemiyon Barber, Casey Hess, Gildas Lemmonier, Alexander Olivieri, Logan Pedon, Joshua Tuason; Costumes: Andrew Jordan & Iggy Soliven. 

December 13, Final NYU Class held at DD+D Studio; each of the eleven students shows work; class this year shared with Randi Sloan, each taking half, seven, of the 3-hour classes.

2019

January 6 & 7, DD+D / Rio Grande Union hosts two APAP evenings; work by DD, Jody Oberfelder, and Molissa Fenley. DD shows two fragments: Wandering Duo from Tandem; Dancers: Christopher Williams, Timothy Ward, Jake Szczypek, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Paul Singh, Emily Pope, Janet Charleston, Alexandra Berger; and DMAC, the affectionate, unofficial name for the four duets presented at DMAC last November 7, soon to be the opening section of new piece for 92Y March 8 & 9; Dancers: Douglas Dunn, Christopher Williams, Jacob Szczypek, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Paul Singh, Emily Pope, Acée Francis Laird, Kara Hestevold, Janet Charleston; both sections, new music, live, by Steven Taylor.

February 16 – Rehearsal of sections of Crag shown to invited guests at studio. Dancers: Douglas Dunn, Grazia Della-Terza, Christopher Williams, Paul Singh, Jake Szczypek, Acée Francis Laird, Emily Pope, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Janet Charleston, Kara Hestevold; Music: Steven Taylor; Andrew Jordan, costume designer, showed drawings. 

February 22 – 23, Grazia & DD travel to Winston-Salem, NC, to see DD’s PULCINELLA remounted by Kira Blazek at University of North Carolina School of the Arts (some sections omitted to fit timing of evening of four dances). On Friday, DD speaks with roomful of students, some of whom are in the Pulcinella cast; Kira moderates DD curtain talk for donors before Friday show (performances Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday); the dance is second on the program following Balanchine’s Concerto Barocco; Pulcinella on the heels of such sustained symmetry comes off as a dance gone crazy, as if meant to challenge classical form, though DD at the Paris Opera in 1980 had no such conscious intent; DD’s son Ethan & grandkids Dylan & Roan arrive Saturday, socialize & take in the evening show; Costumes: Mimi Gross, reusing 1984 version; Dancers on Feb. 21 & 23: Mariah Anton, Sofia Baeta, Madalyn Bailey, Zach Burrows, Emma Cumpston, Ethan Digby-New, John Gardner, Jordan Hooks, Grant Kennedy, Blythe Koster, Molly McGlennen, Teresa Noonan, Dylan Parton, Emmanuel Patterson, William Thompson. Dancers on Feb. 22: Madalyn Bailey, Jacob Barker, Zach Burrows, Ethan Digby-New, Eliza Engstrom, John Gardner, Elena Gimenez, Jordan Hooks, Grant Kennedy, Taylor McCain, Teghan Murphy, Emily Sanchez, William Thompson, Samantha Willins, Jacquie Whitmore.

March 2, Douglas Dunn participates in the Harkness Dance Festival Conversation, “Drawing Dance: On Tour with The Merce Cunningham Dance Company” at the 92Y.

March 8 & 9 – At the invitation of Catherine Tharin, DD+D shows CRAG, 60’, one show on Friday, two on Saturday, as part of the Merce Cunningham Centennial Festival at 92Y; Music: Stephen Taylor; Costumes: Andrew Jordan; Lighting: William Schaffner; Dancers: Douglas Dunn, Grazia Della-Terza, Christopher Williams, Jake Szczypek, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Paul Singh, Emily Pope, Acée Francis Laird, Kara Hestevold, Janet Charleston.

March 22 & 23 – At the invitation of Tina Croll and Jamie Cunningham, DD participates in two of the four shows of a season of The Horse’s Mouth honoring Deborah Jowitt, at The Theater at the 14th Street Y, NYC.

April 1 – 13, at the invitation of Trish Lent of the Merce Cunningham Trust, DD spends two weeks in Seattle working with Cornish College of the Arts and with the University of Washington. He enters a wide variety of kinds of classes, dance and otherwise, being an emissary of Merce Cunningham’s legacy, as well as a representative of it by virtue of his continuous dance career of forty-eight years following his time in the Cunningham dance company. Here is a list of the professors whose classes he leads. UW: Jennifer Salk. Cornish: Alia Swersky, Melanie Burgess, Jarrad Powell, Wade Madsen, Bob Campbell, Alana Isiguen, Deborah Wolf, Tonya Lockyear, Dayna Hanson, Laura Ann Smyth, Lodi McClellan.

April 22 – VAIN COMBAT: Dancers: Alexandra Berger, Tony Bordonaro, Kara Hestevold, Emily Pope, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Jake Szczypek, Timothy Ward; plan is three half-hour runs near the arch at Washington Square Park, but it begins to rain after the first one, so we stop; Dr. Jerry Clements and one of his office workers are there to watch on their lunch hour, this one of the few times we advertised the outing.

April 26, 27, 28 – WREST (8’), premier made, with the rehearsal assistance of DD+D dancers Janet Charleston and Jin Ju Song-Begin, for the 2019 Distinguished Faculty Concert of New York University’s Dance Education Program; Student Dancers: Takako Amitani, Melanie Coats, Trashina Conner, Nyasia Fraser, Jacqueline Ledesma, Jai Marie Williams; Music: Excerpts from “Serenade for String Orchestra in C major, op. 48,” by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and “Ilahi Dostum Bagina,” played on the bagiama and sung by Ali Akber Cicek. 

April 29 – VAIN COMBAT: Dancers: Alexandra Berger, Tony Bordonaro, Kara Hestevold, Emily Pope, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Jake Szczypek, Timothy Ward; three half-hour runs near the arch at Washington Square Park; Joseph Lennon watches one run with me. 

May 3 – At the invitation of Edwin Torres, DD+D dancers Emily Pope and Jin Ju Song- Begin dance their 5-minute duo from Stretch Duo Section of Tandem (2018), while DD moves around them; in the Parish Hall at St. Mark’s Church, as part of the launch of Edwin’s The Body in Language: An Anthology, in which DD has an entry. 

June 3 -28 - DD leads Technique Classes at 541 Broadway, 3rd Floor, Monday, Wednesday, Friday mornings.

August 12, 15, 16, 17 – INCLINATIONS: 15’. Dancers: Alexandra Berger, Emily Pope, Cassie Roberts, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Vanessa Vargas; dance made for Manhattan stairways, some material from Portal, some new; August 12, shown on US Post Office stairs, 8th Avenue between 33rd and 34th Streets; August 15, stairs at NY Public Library, 5th Avenue at 42nd Street; August 16 & 17, stairways at Bethesda Fountain, Central Park.

September, DD teaches Technique at DD+D Studio Monday Wednesday & Friday mornings.

September 29 – Rio Grande Union, Inc. presents Salon Maurizio Saiu & Marco Cappelli. The two of them show We Never Played Together, Maurizio singing & dancing, Marco making music; in the DD+D Studio; the-first-time-ever-show with audience facing the Broadway windows. The big Ficus is center stage, Maurizio beginning sitting under its branches. True to the title, never having performed together, they offer nevertheless a cohesive 40 minutes. 

October 17 to 20 – At the invitation of Kelly Knox, DD & Grazia Della-Terza in residence at Bucknell University; to Kelly’s students we teach Changeover material made for Chicago a few years ago, & with Sandra Gibson & Luis Recoder present, on October 20, Changeover in Bucknell-owned downtown Lewisburg Art Deco “Campus Theatre”, with launch of Douglas Dunn / Gibson + Recoder’s Corner Book following, including brief Q&A; during previous three days: DD speaks at Dance History Class; DD teaches Technique Class; Grazia teaches Qi Gong Class; & DD makes new piece, HOW TO SINK BACK INTO YOURSELF, on same students, to be shown after our departure. Student cast: Paige Braun, Mikki Du Bois, Maddy Kho, Tyler Luong, Shaun Parrish, Rosemary Reng, Aisling Sullivan, Lauren Sullivan, Emma Smith, Allison Wagner.

November 1, Salon Alessandro Carboni Context-ere (Open Studio)(in the Frame of Amina); the artist speaks & moves minimally in relation to sculptural setups; produced by Valeria Orani; AMINA>ANIMA (Soul) is a project created by 369gradi and directed by Valeria Orani to achieve a contemporary prospective through the ancestral roots of Sardinia’s cultural identity and developed by the funds of Unione Europea PO FESR 2014-2020 – RAS - Regione Autonoma della Sardegna.

November 8 & 9 – At the invitation of Annie-B Parson, DD, after a month of rehearsal, dances & acts as a member of Big Dance Theater in her The Road Awaits Us (2017) at NYU Skirball Center; Performers: Paul Lazar, Brian Bertscher, DD, Betsy Gregory, Meg Harper, Paul Lazar, Bebe Miller, Keith Sabado, Sheryl Sutton, and Black-Eyed Susan.

November 19 – at the Invitation of Patricia Nicholson, DD dances with her and others at her 70th Birthday Celebration at The Clemente, 107 Suffolk Street, NYC.

November 23 – Open Rehearsal in DD+D studio in preparation for presentations of VAIN COMBAT & TANDEMETTE in Guatemala City; invited audience, donors & others. DD adds himself to TANDEMETTE. 

November 27 & 28 – At the invitation of Susana Williams of Dance-Forms Productions, DD+D show TANDEMETTE at the Teatro Abril in Guatemala City; DD inserts himself as part in the piece, dancing in & out in red midst their yellow; Dancers: Alexandra Berger, Douglas Dunn, Emily Pope, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Jake Szczypek; we also twice dance fifteen-minute version of VAIN COMBAT on November 26 as part of the RAMBLA OUTDOORS DANCE FESTIVAL.

December 8 – At the invitation of NYU Professor Esther Lamneck, DD dances with his NYU "Open Structure" students amid her on-stage music students to Alfonso Belfiore’s La Città Sommersa in Loewe Theater as part of her NYU "New Music Ensemble’s Florence to New York Project 2019.

December 12 – DD hosts end-of-semester NYU Open Structures Class, taught in collaboration with Randi Sloan; students present their work.

December 15 – At the invitation of Cathy Weis, DD dances in “Shorties,” a mix of open structures: solos, duos, trios, quartets, as part of her Sundays on Broadway at WeisAcres Salon Series, 537 Broadway, NYC; the other dancers: Emily Climer, Patrick Gallagher, Fumi Kikuchi, Jon Kinzel, Luis Lara Malvacías, Dustin Maxwell, Jennifer Miller, Jennifer Monson, Wendy Perron, Vicky Shick, and Cathy Weis; there are two other presentations, one by Carolyn Hall, one by Ellen Fisher.

2020

January 1 – For the Poetry Project Marathon at St. Mark’s Church, DD dances with Jin Ju Song-Begin & Kara Hestevold, Steven Taylor & Laura Brenneman playing & singing Beetles songs, 4’30”. Steven says:

The arrangement I made for the 2020 Poetry Project Marathon is a mashup of two John Lennon's songs from the Beatles'  Abbey Road album: "Sun King" and "Because." My score is titled Sun King Because.

On the album, Because comes first as the second cut on Side B. Sun King is cut four. In between there is a McCartney bit.  In joining the Lennon bits, I put Sun King first because in such a miniature, Louis has to be there at the start.

January 10 & 11 – The Cattle, a collaboration allowing choice during performance; Michael Hammond, Text; Cleek Schrey, Music, playing an harmonium lent by Dick Connette, & other instruments; Jacob Burckhardt, Live Video, projected on newly painted white brick wall; DD, Dance, seven entrances, including use of Andrew Jordan’s Zebra Head and his Space Chicken; at DD+D studio, 541 Broadway; Leo Janks handled lighting; Grazia Della-Terza & Janet Charleston handled audience. 

February 6, 7, 8 – Salon Karen Bernard; she rents the studio to present Lakeside, a 45-minute collaborative duet with Lisa Parra; Dramaturg, Andi Villa Stover; Sound Score, Karen Bernard in collaboration with Boris Billier; Yellow/Black Costume, created for Karen Bernard late ‘70s; Lighting Consultant, Emma Rivera; Stage Manager, Leo Janks.

March 14 - CORNER BOOK LAUNCH, 25-minute dance to be the centerpiece of the celebration and launch, at the DD+D studio, 541 Broadway, NYC, of the new book Corner. Dancers: Alexandra Berger, Janet Charleston, Douglas Dunn, Kara Hestevold, Acée Francis Laird, Emily Pope, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Jake Szczypek, Christopher Williams; Music: Norman Westberg; the Salon was cancelled because of Covid 19.

June 22 – August 10, DD teaches Technique twice a week via Zoom.

September through December - DD and fellow adjunct Randi Sloan lead class Open Structures at NYU Steinhardt via Zoom.

October 21 - At the invitation of Jay Wegman of Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, DD joins Jay, Sean Curran, and Wendy Perron for a one-hour webinar chat about Wendy's new book, The Grand Union.

October 31 - We broadcast via Constant Contact EN DEHORS, 3:30, online Vimeo of DD posing in kitchen doorway; Costumes: Charles Atlas, Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn, Mimi Gross, David Ireland, Andrew Jordan; Production: Grazia Della-Terza, Sandra Gibson; Music: Sarabande, "La Mignarde," by Jacques Gallot.

November 9 -15 - At the invitation of Gloria McLean of the American Dance Guild, video documentation of Douglas Dunn + Dancers RV and Near Miss from the 2014 ADG Festival were available to view to the pubic online for one week. This was part of the 2020 American Dance Guild Performance Festival, 10 Years Over 10 Weeks, with works by Joan Myers Brown, Douglas Dunn and Bill Evans featured as part of the virtual online festival.

November 29 - At the invitation of the 500 Capp Street Foundation, to celebrate the occasion of David Ireland purchasing his house at 500 Capp Street 45 years ago, Douglas called in this memory below to FOXY 1-833-621-3479.

This is Douglas Dunn calling. My numbers are: 212-966-6999 and 917-288-4887. Douglas Dunn + Dancers company member Grazia Della-Terza is a distant relative of David Ireland. They both emerged from clans in Bellingham, Washington, where everyone knew everyone. Grazia introduced me to David in the early 1980s, and he and I worked together on several large projects in New York City, around the US, and in France…around the US, in France, and In Perth, Australia. During the 100th anniversary of 500 Capp Street, David invited Grazia and me to dance in the already famous house. He hung cassette tape recorders, which played his sound scores, from the ceilings in all the rooms. The event took place at 11am on Sunday, July 20th, 1986. The audience, which included my mother and sister, I having been born and raised in Palo Alto, California, migrated from room to room, more than filling each one, as Grazia and I danced amidst them. David was most satisfied with the celebration, as were we all. In keeping with other collaborations between David and me, the interaction produced intensified aesthetic inspiration on both sides. On January 28th, 2016, from 6 to 8 pm, we had another opportunity to inhabit the house, this time with the full company. We called the event Diversions. The troupe included me, Grazia Della-Terza, Timothy Ward, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Alexandra Berger, Emily Pope, Jules Bakshi, and Paul Singh. Using small units of movement made for the occasion, the dancers dispersed throughout the house, choosing where to be and which bits of the material to show. The audience likewise was free to roam. Grazia and I miss David dearly, and wish the best for the continuing active presence of 500 Capp Street.

December 30 - restricted showing - Unable because of the pandemic to offer a live season, Linda Smith, director or Repertory Dance Theater of Salt Lake City, conjures a video that shows work of many of the choreographers who have set work on the RDT dancers over the years. The ninety-minute edit also narrates significant moments in the company's history. DD made PEEPSTONE for them in 1987, and now gives permission to excerpt a quartet from the piece, danced to Mozart's "Eine Kleine Gigue." The section was made for four men. Ms. Smith, however, with DD's encouragement, sets it on two casts, one all men, the other all women. Both versions are on the video, as is, during the credits, an overlay of the two casts. RDT dancers: Jaclyn Brown, Lauren Curley, Trung Dniel Do, Dan Higgins, Elle Johansen, Jonathan Kim, Kareem Lewis, Ursula Perry.

2021

April 8 - At the invitation of Renata Celichowska, Director of Dance at Tufts University, DD leads a Zoom session in Open Structures as a guest teacher of her "improv class."

May 3- June 9 - Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday Company Archivist Sandra Gibson and Company Historian Grazia Della-Terza post on the DD+D Social Media platforms, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, excerpts from Vimeos of the DD+D repertory chosen to feature a particular dancer. The featured dancers are: Dare Ayorinde, Jules Bakshi, Alexandra Berger, Kira Blazek, Emily Bock, Tony Bordonaro, Janet Charleston, Liz Elmquist, Kara Hestevold, Acée Francis Laird, Jessica Martineau, Emily Pope, Paul Singh, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Jake Szczypek, Timothy Ward, Christopher Williams.

May 10-28 - DD teaches Technique every Monday, Wednesday and Friday via Zoom.

July 8,9,10, 6pm - CORNER BOOK LAUNCH: RECRUDESCENCE - DD+D Studio, 541 Broadway, Third Floor; this event having been cancelled just as the pandemic hit in March, 2020, we present the twenty-minute dance made for that occasion without book sales; Dancers: Alexandra Berger, Janet Charleston, Douglas Dunn, Kara Hestevold, Emily Pope, Paul Singh, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Timothy Ward, Christopher Williams; Music: Norman Westberg playing live; all spectators vaccinated and masked; twenty-two chairs in the round spaced evenly. Great thanks to Brice Brown for his enthusiastic producing of Corner book.

August 31-September 28 - DD teaches Technique every Tuesday and Saturday via Zoom.

September through December - DD & Randi Sloan lead the Open Structures Class at Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development - a School within New York University.

October 2-November 20 -DD teaches Technique every Wednesday and Saturday via Zoom.

November 5 - NOTHING IS ENOUGH (7'19") - Video by DD. DD dancing & playing gorilla. Production: Grazia Della-Terza, Sandra Gibson, and Zach Elmblad.

November 19, 20, 21 - ROUNDELAY - 8'20" - First showings, presented at the Frederick Loewe Theater, 35 West Fourth Street, as part of the New York University Steinhardt School Distinguished Faculty Concert; Choreography: Douglas Dunn; NYU Student Dancers: Nico Archambault, Eilish Henderson, Shuning Huang, Katherine Jimenez, Ashlee Rapoza; Music: "Concierto de Aranjuez" by Joaquín Rodrigo, excerpt, with Pablo Sáinz Villegas on guitar; Rehearsal direction: Vanessa Knouse; Costume consulting: Janet Charleston.

2022

January 1 - Poetry Project Marathon (2'30") - Tripartite video for virtual Poetry Project Marathon; Steven Taylor singing & playing guitar; Grazia Della-Terza & DD dancing in separate takes on either side of him: three separated vertical panels on black backgroud.

April 4 -10 - SALON I JUST WANT TO DANCE MY WAY THROUGH LIFE YOU KNOW; seven nights of a one-hour Salon of dances (solos, duets and group work) dating from 1974 to the present performed at DD+D Studio, 541 Broadway,NYC; Choreography, Douglas Dunn; Paintings, Mimi Gross; Dancers: Alexandra Berger, Janet Charleston, Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn, Vanessa Knouse, Emily Pope, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Timothy Ward; Dances: Nevada (1974),Dancing Made Easy (2022), Roses (1990), Shovel Dance (2007), No Man's Land (2016), Nothing is Enough (2021), Interlude (2022), Roundelay (2021). Lighting, Leo Janks; Sound, Emily Climer; spectators vaccinated, boosted, and masked.

April 24 - Memorial for Lewis Warsh produced by The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church, NYC: 3'. On the altar of the sanctuary, Steven Taylor plays guitar & sings, Grazia & Douglas dance.

October 2 & 3 - ORCHARD VARIATIONS; 6:30pm; 50 minutes; premier; at the Douglas Dunn Studio, 541 Broadway, NYC. Dancers: Jules Bakshi, Alexandra Berger, Janet Charleston, Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Christopher Williams, Arthur "Trace" Yeames. Alternating sound & silence, varied music chosen by DD.

October 5 to 16 - At the invitation of Brice Brown, DD+D in residence in Milton, PA; Dancers: Jules Bakshi, Alexandra Berger, Janet Charleston, Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn, Emily Pope, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Christopher Williams, Arthur “Trace” Yeames; Dances: Orchard Variations, Vain Combat, No Man's Land, Dancing Made Easy, RV, One Ways, Mozart, Roundelay.   

Hello Brice,

The first two of our nothing-but-Milton-residency-positives---are negatives! That is, we didn't dent Don's car, and we failed, while tiptoeing around and about the million precious objects in your one-of-a-kind wonderful house, to break one. Maybe three not's? No one stepped on Buns. Several of us gave the gentle beast attentions, based on sporadic appearances. Just as often, those two long dark ears were neither seen nor able to be found.

Here's an I hope not-too-long run-down of the days' events. Though Sabrina and Amy are not mentioned, know that they were at all times logistically and emotionally there for us. You have a great team. This episodic review also does not take account of the consistently clear and warm weather, making the frequent walking to the Bank and back a consistent pleasure. One more through-the-time thing. When we arrived, there was a generous patch of yellow-gold leafing across the river from the house, low in front of the green forest. Each day the change to fall coloring proceeded along that opposite bank, left to right, horizontally, like a large snake molting its skin.

Several of us led Kelly's Bucknell class, last minute deciding on a "workshop" format, the students revved and smiling throughout, a contrast, she said, to their dead serious demeanors during her technique classes. I dared to engage the visiting Chinese teacher (we watched as he finished coaching girls in long-sleeve ribbon dancing) on the preference for symmetry in Chinese dancing and Chinese culture in general. He didn't resist, just said yes, bringing up architecture, specifically The Forbidden City. Would he find modern dancing symbolic of chaos? I didn't push.

Enthusiastically present throughout our entire stay, Kelly attended next day's Library event. (The location is lovely, and in case you hadn't made the connection, its address, 541 Broadway, is the same as mine in NYC!) Several families showed up. When I asked that, one at a time, around the circle, each speak a present feeling, and then represent it in a pose or a short move, one of the fathers said, "Out of my comfort zone?" He followed this timid admission by crossing his arms in front of his torso in genuine embarrassment. Later, when each small group made short dances and showed them, he, a large man, following the lead of the younger members of his gang, went down to the floor and back up. I commended him for his bravery.  That night, in the Bank, we danced, as we had done the night before, the new Orchard Variations. The material is all set, but the dancers have choice of front and when to do what, so the two evenings were neither sequentially nor spatially identical. The in-the-round audience for both shows was small but smart. The Q&As brought up the structural element, the relation of feeling to moving, and the connection (or not) with Norman's great music. He said the second night he watched us more and was influenced in his sonic choices by what we were doing. A person who saw both shows pointed to the differences and similarities, prompting one of the dancers to suggest that the viewer himself, too, would have changed overnight.

Our next adventure was showing Vain Combat in Lewisburg. We began inside Sarajane's Mondragon Bookstore, she friendly, more than happy to host us. From there, Paul moving along with us, making music via his baby carriage packed with electronics, his delicate singing voice a primary input, we proceeded down the hill, showing bits on street, sidewalk, parking lot, the adequate audience following us, finally arriving on the large grassy sward below the train tracks. Our timing was a little off, the sun was behind clouds and setting, so we stopped a little before our ending. Most of those still watching as we finished were Kelly's students from the other day's class. She had informed but not harangued them, so she was thrilled at their choice to come out. Their genuinely enthusiastic applause and attention when we finished was our reward. Also present were Paul's wife and son. I don't know how to spell the son's name, but on each encounter with him, and there were several during our stay, he had something to say. In this case his comment was, making an upward and outward gesture with his arms, "Almost impossible."

 Three people showed interest in the Milton Maneuvers Project, only one panned out. But she turned out to be more than enough! Christine was her name. She saw the invitation in a newspaper, lived half an hour away. She entered the bank nervously, mid 30s maybe, a little overweight, we made her welcome, and soon Jin Ju and Alexandra, her collaborators, had her talking and planning. It turned out she was a star in hiding. The three of them made a trio together to heavy-beat music. The dance had symmetry, variety, and moments of solo for each. Christine was obviously in her element, performing, at times with an ecstatic smile, as if she had imagined this opportunity without ever considering it possible. After the warm applause, all of us were moved, the three of them talked about their process. A photo on her phone of Christine as a child in a tutu was passed among us viewers. For the rest of the event I had asked the other dancers to describe important moments in their dance lives. Several did so. Christopher told of being young in a contest to imitate animals, a prize going to the one who could hold the referential pose longest. When it came to the flamingo (he demonstrated the various animals, frog, snake), he remembered liking standing on one leg so much that the event moved on without him, leaving him thus one-leggedly ignored, prizeless, and left behind.

On our last day, Saturday, with audience, this night a full one, along the right-hand wall only, we presented the Roundelay evening. It included some of the solos you saw in New York plus a just-finished quartet, One Ways, set to the Adagio of Bach's Double Violin Concerto. Between each of the numerous dances I read a short passage of nature writing. Before the final, group piece, Roundelay the dance, as I related an over-the-top evocation of a sunset in Tanganyika (taken from a family heirloom book I inherited but always disdained and had not previously read because it had photos of my ancestors standing next to big game they had killed with bow and arrow in Africa), Grazia appeared as gorilla.

Kelly, again, present for almost everything, insisted that we come to her house for breakfast before leaving on Sunday. Most of us did so. She made a feast, and the conversation was extra lively, not least because of Lance, who also was during our sojourn consistently present and friendly, including having us over one evening for pizza and wine. We all took in the serenity and spaciousness of Kelly's house and garden, exactly what us NYC lifers lack.

On one of our non-dance evenings we responded to the invitation of Christiane to dine in Lewisburg at the Brasserie Restaurant. Having just arrived from participating in it, she painted a vivid picture of the surprise birthday party Don threw for you in the tower in Bath. Excellent. After our return to NYC, on the night of October 18, Grazia and the dancers surprised me, all arriving to my delight unexpectedly for a big dinner in the studio, plus video of past and present dancers appreciating my turning 80 (yikes!). They chose not the 19th, the actual date, because on the 20th Grazia and I flew here to Rome, where we are peacefully abiding.

Thank you for making Milton a home and work place for us for twelve wonderful days. We all of us thrived. 

Looking forward to more collaborating,

Douglas  

October 18 - The day before the actual birth day date, which is October 19, Jin Ju Song-Begin organized a surprise birthday party for Douglas, for his 80th, at his studio at 541 Broadway, where he lives with his wife Grazia and the cat Tika. Those who to his great pleasure interrupted Douglas's evening were: Jules Bakshi, Alexandra Berger, Jacob Burckhardt, Janet Charleston, Grazia Della-Terza, Emily Pope, Cassie Roberts Rossi, Paul Singh, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Jake Szczypek, and Christopher Williams. Jin Ju also had asked present and past Company Members to make videos honoring Douglas. Many having done so, the compilation was shown.

November 11- Salon Kay Nishikawa, at DD+D Studio, 541 Broadway, NYC. Kay dances "The Life of Particle"; Music: Masami Tomihisa; Set: Kishi Ui; Video: William Hohauser.

November 19 & 20 - ANOTHER CUT: 6'. New York University Steinhardt Dancers: Sky Morgan, Sydney Ekanayake-Lin, Deborah Black, Bingbing Zeng, Lejing Liu, Xinyi Zhang, Heruyu Xu, Stephanie Jacco; Music: "The First Cut is the Deepest," by Cat Stevens, sung by Sheryl Crow; Rehearsal direction: Janet Charleston.

December 2 - SHOVEL DANCE - DD & Jin Ju Song-Begin dance Shovel Dance as part of the American Dance Guild Performance Festival 2022 at The Ailey Citigroup Theater, NYC; Music: "O Virgineta bella" by Acantus. 

2023

January 1 - DD dances at the Poetry Project Benefit on the altar of St. Mark's Church in the Bowery to "Oh My Love," written by John Lennon & Yoko Ono, played live by Steven Taylor & Laura Brenneman.

April 24-30 - Douglas Dunn + Dancers performed GARDEN PARTY for nine consecutive performances; a collaborative work by choreographer Douglas Dunn, visual artist/designer Mimi Gross, and lighting designer Lauren Parrish at Douglas Dunn Studio.

Garden Party, is a series of vignettes, each with its own elegant and playful interaction of movement, visual art, music, and language. Dunn partnered with longtime collaborator Mimi Gross to transform his loft space into a verdant haven. Ten members of Douglas Dunn + Dancers, including Dunn himself, frolicked within this lush garden landscape while lighting and projections by Lauren Parrish illuminated each scene and its interruptions. In the hour-long work, Dunn’s steps were interwoven with poetry (John Keats, Anne Waldman, and others) and music (Robert de Visée and John Lennon, to name a few). See below.

Choreography by Douglas Dunn, set and costume design by Mimi Gross, lighting and projection design by Lauren Parrish, sound by Jacob Burckhardt. Pre-show live music by Tosh Sheridan. Dancers: Alexandra Berger, Janet Charleston, Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn, Vanessa Knouse, Emily Pope, Paul Singh, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Timothy Ward, and Christopher Williams. Readers: Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn, Stephanie Jacco, Anne Waldman. Costume Construction: Sue Julien; David Quinn @quinndustry. System Engineer: Patrick Mahaney.

TEXTS FOR GARDEN PARTY

1

Is there no way I might

Open my heart with a knife

I could slip you in

And close the cut again

Till the end of time

Till the resurrection

You'd be inside

No heart but mine

In the webbing of my heart

You'd live my lifetime

In the tomb's twilight

You'd die when I die

---Ibn Hazm. (Cordova, 994-1063), Andalusian Poems [Stephanie Jacco]

2

The landscape is something alien for us and we are terribly alone among the trees that blossom and the streams that pass. Alone with someone who has died we are nowhere near as exposed as we are alone with trees. For however mysterious death is, life is all the more so, a life that is not our life, a life that takes no part in ours, that celebrates its festivals without seeing us, and which we look upon with a certain discomfort, like guests who have turned up by  accident and speak a different language.

---Rilke [Grazia Della-Terza]

3

Ecco mormorar l'onde,

E tremolar le fronde

A l'aura mattutina e gli arboscelli,

E sovra i verdi rami i vaghi augelli

Cantar soavamente,

E rider l'Oriente;

Ecco già l'alba appare,

E si specchia nel mare

E rasserena il cielo,

E le campagne imperla il dolce gelo

E gli alti monti indora:

O bella e vaga Aurora,

L'aura è tua messaggera, e tu de l'aura

Ch'ogni arso cor ristaura.

Now the waves murmur

And the boughs and the shrubs tremble

in the morning breeze,

And on the green branches the pleasant birds

Sing softly

And the east smiles;

Now dawn already appears

And mirrors herself in the sea,

And makes the sky serene,

And the gentle frost impearls the fields

And gilds the high mountains:

O beautiful and gracious Aurora,

The breeze is your messenger, and you the breeze's

Which revives each burnt-out heart.
---Torquato Tasso (1544-1595) [Grazia Della-Terza]

4

O Nightingale, that on yon bloomy Spray

Warbl'st at eve, when all the woods are still,

Thou with fresh hope the Lovers heart dost fill

While the jolly hours lead on propitious May,

Thy liquid notes that close the eye of Day,

First heard before the shallow Cuccoos' bill

Portend success in love; O if Jove's will

Have linkt that amorous power to thy soft lay,

Now timely sing, ere the rude Bird of Hate

Foretell my hopeless doom in some Grove ny:

As thou from yeer to yeer hast sung too late

For my relief; yet hadst no reason why,

Whether the Muse, or Love call thee his mate,

Both them I serve, and of their train am I.

---John Milton [Douglas Dunn]

5

The Owl listened for what felt an age,

then flew into a rage.

"You're called a Nightingale," she spat,

"but blabbermouth's more accurate.

Your monologues are all-consuming,

rest your tongue & stop assuming

that you've won the day & own

the argument. Give me my turn

& keep your trap shut while I speak

& listen closely while I seek

a rational & sincere revenge

without recourse to verbiage.

You say by day I hibernate,

a fact I won't repudiate,

but hear me while I clarify

the wherefore & the reasons why.

My beak is powerful & strong,

my claws are sharp and very long,

& rightfully I share these traits

with others of the owlish trade.

No man can criticize my pride

in feeling kinship with my tribe.

Look at my features & you'll find

ferocity personified,

so all the tiny birds abhor me,

flitting through the understory,

slighting me with squeaks and squawks

& flying at me in their flocks

when all I want to do is rest

in peaceful silence in my nest.

---Anon. The Owl and the Nightingale, translated by Simon Armitage [Grazia Della-Terza]

6

Shall I speak plainly, Madam?

I confess

Your conduct gives me infinite distress,

And my resentment's grown too hot to smother,

Soon, I foresee, we'll break with one another.

If I said otherwise, I should deceive you;

Sooner or later, I shall be force to leave you,

And if I swore that we shall never part,

I should misread the omens of my heart.

---Molière, The Misanthrope. Translated by Richard Wilbur. [Grazia Della-Terza]

7

In former days we'd both agree

That you were me, and I was you.

What has now happened to us two,

That you are you, and I am me?

---Bhartrhari - 5th Century - Translator, John Brough. Love Poems, Everyman's Library Pocket Poets, Alfred Knopf, p. 112. [Stephanie Jacco]

8

If I were

a seabird, and you

a barn swallow,

we could

find some way of

relating.

Perhaps in the small feathers

that sit atop our bellies

we share a common ancestor

exchange our favorite

recipes. We are not

so unalike.

Our wings cut into the breeze

coasting like a ship.

---Stephani Jacco, "Relating." [Stephanie Jacco]

9

Now you must go out into your heart

as onto a vast plain.

---Rilke. [Stephanie Jacco]

10

he understands he cannot understand

he does not know how but he animates

then he moves he cannot move

he stumbles he won't stumble

he speaks he cannot speak

he remains he cannot remain

he dreams he cannot remain, he remains

he understands he cannot understand

waiting for people to appear, some sign?

he moves, he moves

others move around him

carries years of waiting on his back, moving and not

implacable nature denuded, who denudes nature?

he departs he cannot depart

others move around him

he weeps he cannot weep

he loves he cannot

---Anne Waldman. Aubaderrying, excerpt, p.26 [Anne Waldman]

11

I'm a shouting woman

I'm a speech woman

I'm an atmosphere woman

I'm an air tight woman

I'm a flesh woman

I'm flexible woman

I'm a high heeled woman

I'm a high style woman

I'm an automobile woman

I'm a mobile woman

I'm an elastic woman

I'm a necklace woman

I'm a silk scarf woman

I'm a know nothing woman

---Anne Waldman. Fast Speaking Woman, excerpt [Anne Waldman]

12

The eagle lives under the sky far above us

In his talons he holds the world

He wears a gay garment, a vibrant moist coat of colors

He waits there for the words of the Moon Goddess

Bright-eyed he looks down upon the waters of life

The sun is bright & magnificent in his eyes

His feet are red

He spreads his wings wide over the earth

& beneath his wings the gods grant rain the gods grant rain

Dew comes forth on the planet

His voice rises above us

Lovely are the words

Even the Moon Goddess hears them

She who lives in the underworld

She hears them there & responds

The words of the Moon Goddess mingle with the words of the eagle

The words of the eagle fade & drift above the waters

The words of the Goddess drift

underneath the sky dome

Far away their words vanish

---Cora Indian Song, via Anne Waldman. Kill or Cure, p. 67f.

[Anne Waldman]

13

Green rushes with red shoots,

Long leaves bending to the wind--

You and I in the same boat

Plucking rushes at the Five Lakes.

We started at dawn from the orchard-island:

We rested under elms till noon.

You and I plucking rushes

Had not plucked a handful when night came!

---Chinese 4th Century Anon., Translator Arthur Waley. Love Poems, Everyman's Library Pocket Poets, Alfred Knopf, p. 125.

[Stephanie Jacco]

14

Hoist sail, little bark of my wit!

Little Captain gazing round---

How can I speed without you?

The light of the moon rising in Ares

makes me set a face to the hillside

Nor was our parting over

at the foot of the mountain.

---Anne Waldman. Helping the Dreamer, p.72. [Stephanie Jacco]

15

Suddenly she said to him with extraordinary beauty: "I engage myself to you forever." The beauty was in everything, and he could have separated nothing---couldn't have thought of her face as distinct from the whole joy. Yet her face had a new light. "And I pledge to you---I call God to witness!---every spark of my faith; I give you every drop of my life." That was all, for the moment, but it was enough, and it was almost as quiet as if it were nothing. They were in the open air, in an alley of the Gardens; the great space, which seemed to arch just then higher and spread wider for them, threw them back into deep concentration.

---Henry James. The Wings of the Dove. Modern Library, p. 106 [Douglas Dunn, Grazia Della-Terza]

16

Woman: "Maybe your wife doesn't understand you."

Man: "The trouble is, she does."

Woman: "You should lead your own life,

make all the decisions in your house."

Man: "For forty years I keep saying that

to myself. But only to myself."

---Movie The Time, The Place, and the Girl, excerpt

[Stephanie Jacco & Douglas Dunn]

17

You think I don't love you, oh but I do
How can I show that I do?
You think I don't get blue, oh but I do
Though I get light-hearted, too
First I'm singing then I'm sighing
Then I'm flying high above
You think I don't know why, oh but I do
I know that it's you I love

First I'm singing then I'm sighing
Then I'm flying so high above
You think I don't know why, oh but I do
I know that it's you I love

---Movie The Time, The Place, and the Girl, excerpt

18

Oh my love for the first time in my life
My eyes are wide open
Oh my lover for the first time in my life
My eyes can see

I see the wind, oh I see the trees
Everything is clear in my heart
I see the clouds, oh I see the sky
Everything is clear in our world

Oh my love for the first time in my life
My mind is wide open
Oh my lover for the first time in my life
My mind can feel

I feel the sorrow, oh I feel the dreams
Everything is clear in my heart
I feel life, oh I feel love
Everything is clear in our world

---John Lennon & Yoko Ono

19

Herr, unser Herrscher, dessen Ruhm
In allen Landen herrlich ist!
Zeig uns durch deine Passion,
Dass du, der wahre Gottessohn,
Zu aller Zeit,
Verherrlicht worden bist!

LIST OF MUSIC FOR GARDEN PARTY

1) Robert de Visée, "Chaconne en sol majeur" - played by Francisco López.

2) Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris, "If This Is Goodbye"

3) Jacques Offenbach, "Barcarolle" - Barbara Hannigan, Fleur Barron and LSO

4) Domenico Scarlatti, K 208 in A Major - played on the harp by Victoria Drake

5) Extreme, "More Than Words"

6) Domenico Scarlatti, K 348 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ysTE7f5NR0&t=94s

7) Guillaume Dufay, "Ave Maris Stella"

8) Johann Sebastian Bach, "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor," BWV 565 - played by organist Hans-André Stamm on the Trost-Organ of the Stadtkirche in Waltershausen, Germany.

9) David Ireland, score for Stucco Moon, a collaborative evening with Douglas Dunn, 1992

10) "The Time, the Place and the Girl" - 1946 - Jack Carson and Dennis Morgan.

11) John Lennon & Yoko Ono, "Oh My Love"

12) Johann Sebastian Bach, "St John Passion" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyFqFpSjIDs

May 10 - Salon Jacob Burckhardt, at DD+D Studio, 541 Broadway, NYC. Slide Lecture on The Loft Generation: From the de Koonings to Twombly: portraits and sketches, 1942-2011 (Farrar Strauss Giroux, 2021) by Edith Schloss (Burckhardt’s Mother) to celebrate the book’s paperback release; 8pm.

May16 - June 13 - Douglas & Grazia travel to California.

June 20 - Celebrating the release of three MAB Books, including BODY / SHADOW, the book launch event featured a short dance performance by Alexandra Berger, Douglas Dunn, Emily Pope, Paul Singh and Christopher Williams and a vocal performance by Paul J. Botelho. Brice Brown, Don Joint, Deborah Rosenthal and Jed Perl in attendance.

June 22 - At the invitation of Cleek Schrey, DD+D dances alongside Schrey's The Daxophone Consort in back to back shows as part of Concert in the Catacombs at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY; Dancers: Alexandra Berger, Douglas Dunn, Vanessa Knouse, Cassidy Martin, Emily Pope, Paul Singh, Tim Ward, Christopher Williams.

September 6 -10 - Douglas Dunn + Dancers revisit GARDEN PARTY for six consecutive performances; a collaborative work by choreographer Douglas Dunn, visual artist/designer Mimi Gross, and lighting designer Lauren Parrish at Douglas Dunn Studio.

Garden Party is a series of vignettes, each with its own elegant and playful interaction of movement, visual art, music, and language. Dunn partnered with longtime collaborator Mimi Gross to transform his loft space into a verdant haven. Ten members of Douglas Dunn + Dancers, including Dunn himself, frolicked within this lush garden landscape while lighting and projections by Lauren Parrish illuminated each scene and its interruptions. In the hour-long work, Dunn’s steps were interwoven with poetry (John Keats, Anne Waldman, and others) and music (Robert de Visée and John Lennon, to name a few). See below.

Choreography by Douglas Dunn, set and costume design by Mimi Gross, lighting and projection design by Lauren Parrish, sound engineering by Jacob Burckhardt. Pre-show live music by Tosh Sheridan. Dancers: Alexandra Berger, Janet Charleston, Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn, Vanessa Knouse, Eve Jacobs, Emily Pope, Paul Singh, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Timothy Ward, and Christopher Williams. Readers: Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn, Stephanie Jacco, Anne Waldman. Costume Construction: Sue Julien; David Quinn @quinndustry. System Engineer: Patrick Mahaney.

September 25-October 23, DD teaches Technique at DD+D Studio.

October 6 & 7 - Douglas Dunn’s duet, ROSES (1990) performed by New York Theatre Ballet at Florence Gould Hall, on the occasion of its 45th Anniversary season, “Legends & Visionaries”. DD+D dancers Emily Pope and Timothy Ward staged the duet for a double cast of NYTB dancers: Kieran McBride, Jonathan Leonard, Mónica Lima, and Charles Rosario. Along with Roses, NYTB also presented works by Merce Cunningham, David Gordon, and Amanda Treiber,and a world premiere by NYTB Artistic Director, Steven Melendez.

October 21 - At the invitation of Rachael Kosch, DD dances one minute as part of 15-Minutes-of-Fame, a gallery opening at 102 Franklin Street, #2, Tribeca, NYC; fourteen other dancers do likewise, each to their own one minute of music, each minute by a different composer; no pauses between the minutes, DD at number 14; a number of Graham veterans are in the cast and in the crowded attendance, some of whom, turns out to her pleasure, Grazia knows from way back, they chat; DD+D member Vanessa Knouse is also a one-minute dancer.

October 27 & 28 - Shows of BODY / SHADOW, in the round, at Judson Memorial Church, NYC; a Collaboration: Music, Paul J. Botelho; Images, Set design, & Text, Brice Brown; Choreography, Douglas Dunn; Rehearsal Direction, Janet Charleston;Visual media design, Steve Gibson; Lighting coordination, Carol Mullins; Costume design & construction, Mimi Gross & Sue Julien; Costume coordination, Grazia Della-Terza; Zebra costume, Andrew Jordan; Lighting coordination, Carol Mullins; Prop fabrication, Jennifer Lippert; Dancers: Jules Bakshi, Cemiyon Barber, Jay Beardsley, Alexandra Berger, Dwayne Brown, Janet Charleston, Savannah Jade Dobbs, Steph Jacco, Eve Jacobs, Vanessa Knouse, Corinne Lohner, Cassidy Martin, Emily Pope, Deniz Erkan Sancak, Jin Ju Song- Begin, Mac Twining, Timothy Ward, Arthur “Trace” Yeames; Management, Janet Charleston & Sandra Gibson.

November 3 & 4 - Salon Catherine Tharin Dance. Catherine Tharin Dance presents recent dances and two films. Douglas Dunn moderated a Q & A with the artists after the performance on November 3rd. Dancers: Amelia Attleberry, Dylan Baker, Hannah Kearney, David Parker. Composers: Sam Crawford, Eleanor Hovda. Music and Sound Design: Jon Kinzel. Costumers: Colleen Howland, Sue Julien. Filmmakers: Lora Robertson, Liz Schneider-Cohen. Special guest: Esmé Julien Boyce.

November 8 - Salon Hannes Schüpbach. Douglas Dunn invites artist Hannes Schüpbach to screen his film Essais (2020, 43’), with choreographed shots of dancer Kira Blazek Ziaii – a Douglas Dunn + Dancers member 2008 to 2014. After the screening, Douglas and Hannes have short conversation and Q & A, followed by a video of Kira Blazek performing Mertseger at the DD Salon in 2014, drinks, and a newly published book, Essais, Verlag für moderne Kunst, Vienna, 2023

November 9 -  Wearing red, DD dances to Henry Cowell's Aeolian Harp across the altar at Judson Memorial Church at the memorial for Yvonne Jacquette. Others participating: Tom Burckhardt, Gerry Jacquette, Bridgit Moore, Yoshiko Chuma, Julia Jacquette, Vincent Katz, Annabel Lee, Mimi Gross, Anne Waldman.

November17 & 18 - THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM: 9’ - Presented at the Frederick Loewe Theater, 35 West Fourth Street, as part of the 2023 New York University Steinhardt School Distinguished Faculty Concert; Choreography: Douglas Dunn; NYU Student Dancers: Corinne Lohner, Yiwen Deng, Lejing Liu, Jingxi Li, Abby Zeng, Anne Marie Robson Smock. Music: Jerome Begin. Rehearsal direction: Janet Charleston.

2024

January 1 - 4' - DD, Jules Bakshi & Paul Singh dance at the Poetry Project's 50th Anniversary Benefit at St. Mark's Church. Music: Rite to Rumba, score written for the occasion by Steven Taylor; Jules & Paul begin wearing the colorful capes from BODY / SHADOW; DD wears the pre-Columbian-inspired hat/mask designed and made by Andrew Jordan for Antipodes (2017) & plays maracas. 

January 5 - DD hosts in the studio an half-hour solo by Yasuko Yokoshi. For guests invited by her, she dances a traditional Japanese form known and performed by her for twenty years. She tells us it's likely the last time she will show the work. Before dancing she talks about her current life & work in Kyoto, and takes questions afterwards. https://www.mancc.org/artists/yasuko-yokoshi/

January 7 - 4 pm -  25' - DD+D Studio, 541 Broadway, Third Floor - Open rehearsal for friends of DD & supporters of DD+D. We show: January 1 Poetry Project Benefit untitled piece, with Jin Ju Song-Begin, Paul Singh, DD, performed to Steven Taylor's score Rite to Rumba, composed for the dance, Steven present, working the computer; The Three-Body Problem (NYU version), with Alexandra Berger, Janet Charleston, Emily Pope, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Tim Ward, Christopher Williams; One Ways, with Alexandra Berger, Emily Pope, Paul Singh, Christopher Williams; DD talks between pieces.

January 8 - 11 am - At the request of Elizabeth Powers, based on her interest that DD meet her mentor and intellectual cohort David Carl, we dance a repeat of the January 7 Open Rehearsal; in attendance, Elizabeth Powers, David Carl, Judy Hussie-Taylor, Mimi Gross, Grazia Della-Terza; again Steven Taylor making the computer sing; afterwards, long chat over coffee and snacks, the viewers, Steven Taylor, & dancer Emily Pope.

February 24 - THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM (sextet version, 10') shows as part of American Dance Guild Festival at Ailey Citigroup Theater, NYC; Dancers: Alexandra Berger, Janet Charleston, Emily Pope, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Timothy Ward, Christopher Williams. Music by Jerome Begin.

April 13 - At the instigation of former DD+D dancer Gabriella Hiatt, & at the invitation of Head of Collection Development and User Engagement Gwen Glazer, DD+D present an event at Croton Free Library in Croton-on-Hudson, NY; Dancers: Alexandra Berger, Janet Charleston, Douglas Dunn, Emily Pope, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Timothy Ward, Christopher Williams; Music: Jerome Begin. Reader: Grazia Della-Terza; 3 Sections: 1) Grazia reads Torquato Tasso's Ecco Mormorar L'onde first in Italian, then in English, as DD dances, the two moving together on the small wooden platform, 3 minutes; 2) the six dancers show THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM to Jerome's recorded score, 10 minutes; (because of the semicircular space, we turn the dance 180 degrees, showing it, as it were, from the back...works fine as it's made for eventual viewing in the round); the six dancers show ORCHARD VARIATIONS, 20 minutes, Jerome improvising on the grand piano; between 3B & OV, while dancers change costumes, DD appears, to the delight of the numerous children, as Zebra; after bows, a Q&A moderated by Gabriella, Jerome & DD responding to questions about making music and dance, that we tend to focus on the structural possibilities afforded by our media more than on calculated effects; DD also addresses, inconclusively, the matter of the title The Three-Body Problem; DD came across it years ago, liked its suggestion that a dance might concern itself with factual matters of bodies in motion, with the added bonus of its linking to scientific authority; he first used the title for his dance with NYU students in the spring of 2023, looking forward to expanding from that sextet into a longer work for twelve dancers; he began to doubt the title's worthiness when he became aware of a novel of the same name by Ye Wenjie, and of its subsequent translation into English, &, then, even more popularly, its appearance as a Netflix movie; all of the innocent fun & surprise of an out-of-the-way, found title having been compromised, DD is working to find new naming for the elaborated, evening-length work to be shown as Judson Church, NYC, February 26, 27, 28 & March 1, 2025