ACDFA Northwest Conferece

David Dorfman

David Dorfman, a native Chicagoan, has been honored with four fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. He is also the recipient of three New York Foundation for the Arts fellowships, an American Choreographer's Award, the first Paul Taylor Fellowship from The Yard, and a 1996 New York Dance & Performance Award ("Bessie") for his community-based project Familiar Movements (The Family Project).

Dorfman's choreography has been produced in New York City at venues ranging from the BAM Next Wave Festival to The Kitchen, The Joyce Theater, Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace Project/St. Mark's Church, P.S. 122, and Dancing in the Streets. His work has been commissioned widely in the U.S. and in Europe, most recently by Bedlam Dance Company (London), d9 Dance Collective (Seattle), and the Prince Music Theater in Philadelphia for the musical Green Violin, for which he won a 2003 Barrymore Award for best choreography. An avid fan of collaboration and collective processes, Dorfman is pleased to tour an evening of solos and duets, Live Sax Acts, with friend and collaborator Dan Froot, and a half-evening duet, Menne Awn Frauen, created with longtime colleague and friend Stuart Pimsler.

Dorfman has been guest artist at numerous institutions across the country and abroad, most recently at the University of Utah, Cornish College of the Arts (Seattle), and Arizona State University/Arcadia High School (Arcadia, Arizona). As a performer, he has toured internationally with Kei Takei's Moving Earth and Susan Marshall & Co. Dorfman holds a BS degree in business administration from Washington University in St. Louis and an MFA degree in dance from Connecticut College, where he joined the faculty as Associate Professor in Dance in the fall of 2004.

Maureen Fleming

Maureen Fleming, an American choreographer born in Japan, has gained international recognition on five continents for her original form of multi-disciplined performances. Fleming invents surreal movement poetry and explores through metaphorical images our never-ending search for what is universal about the journey of the soul. After extensive study in Japan with Kazuo Ohno, co-founder of Butoh, an avant-garde movement developed in post war Japan, Ms. Fleming went on to perform with his son Yoshito Ohno and to tour internationally with performance artist and choreographer Min Tanaka. Fleming continued her training in the United States as a scholarship student under the Cecchetti master Margaret Craske.

Connecting cultures and art forms, Fleming is renowned for her singular form of visual theatre. Her solo and group works have received international acclaim in such venues as Japan's 1990 Butoh Festival, Italy's 1995 Spoleto and 1993 Milan Oltre Festivals, Venezuela's 1994 Encuentro International, Mexico's 1995 Jose Limon Dance Festival, Iceland's 1996 Reykjavik Arts Festival, France's 1996 International Mime Festival in Perigueux and Maison des Cultures in Paris, Germany's 1997 Tollwood Festival and Oldenburg Internationale Ballett-Tage '99, Russia's Mimolet 97, Colombia's Contemporanea International Festival 1998, 1999 ,2001, and 2003, Manizales International Festival 2003 and 2005, Korea's Seoul Performing Arts Festival 2003, Brazil's FILO 2005 and Mercado Cultural 2002 and 2005 , LaMaMa E.T.C.(with Yoshito Ohno) 1991, the Pittsburgh Dan ce Council 1992 and 1996, the 1994 Bates Dance Festival, the 1995 San Francisco Butoh Festival (with Akira Kasai), the 92nd St Y Harkness Dance Project 1996, the Kitchen 1998, The Cleveland Museum of Art 1998, The Virginia Museum of Fine Art 1999, Symphony Space 2003, Kaatsbaan International Dance Center 2003, 2004, 2005, the Flynn Center for the Arts 2004, 2007and Boston's Majestic Theater 2002, 2004, 2007.

She has been on the faculty of the Juilliard School, NYU Tisch School of the Arts and Trinity/L a MaMa. Awards include grants from Arts International, National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, Rockefeller Foundation, Greenwall Foundation, New England Foundation/National Dance Project, the National Performance Network, the Japan US Creative Artist Commission and the Fulbright Commission.

Allyson Green

Allyson Green was based in New York from 1986-2001, where she performed with the companies of Yoshiko Chuma SOHK, Charles Moulton, Doug Varone, Randy Warshaw, and Bill Young. She has collaborated with international choreographers Ben Wright (UK), José Navas (Montreal), Dominique Porte (France) and Meg Stuart (Belgium). Collaborations with her husband visual artist Peter Terezakis explore the merging of art, technology and the body in site-specific performances and installations. Her company, Allyson Green Dance, has been presented in Austria, Brazil, Belgium, Canada, France, Hungary, Macedonia, Mexico, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Venezuela, and throughout the United States including yearly seasons in New York. Her choreography has been awarded support from numerous foundations including The Fund for U.S. Artists at International Festivals, the U.S. Department of State, the National Endowment for the Arts, The Rockefeller Foundation, Pew Charitable Trusts and The Jerome Foundation. Her work has been particularly influenced by a decade of teaching and choreographic research in East/Central Europe. She has been the recipient of eight fellowships from The Suitcase Fund (DTW/Rockefeller Foundation), which took place in Brazil, Macedonia, East Germany, the Slovak and Czech Republics, and Romania. Most recently she was the recipient of a 2006 CEC ArtsLink award for a residency in Riga, Latvia. Green also maintained an active visual arts career as a painter and an award-winning graphic designer for numerous arts organizations and PBS television. She is currently the Head of Dance at the University of California, San Diego. She served on the Danspace Project Artist Advisory Board, New York from 1996 -2002, was the Artistic Director of the multidisciplinary arts center Sushi Performance and Visual Art from 2003-5, for which she was named one of the top arts leaders in San Diego by the Union Tribune.