COMPANY MEMBERS
LISA RACE
Lisa Race spent much of her career as a performer, teacher and choreographer in New York before moving north to Connecticut in 2004. Race received a New York Dance and Performance Award (Bessie) in 1995 as a member of David Dorfman Dance (1989-2000). Her choreography has been seen at Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace Project and Movement Research at the Judson Church, among other NYC venues. Race has given workshops and/or made dances at many destinations around the country and beyond, including Austria, Greece, France, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Sweden, England, Hong Kong, Russia and Argentina. She has repeatedly taught at Gibney Dance in NYC, Bates Dance Festival in Maine, and the American Dance Festival in North Carolina. In 2017, she taught at Lion’s Jaw Festival in Boston where the company was able to show an early version of Mid-Tide. Race has collaborated with Shawn Hove on two dance films, Folded and Stone Memory. Folded has been screened at the Sans Souci Festival, Dance For Reel, and Light Moves Festival of Screendance (Ireland). Race choreographed Conn College’s production of On The Town and assisted David Dorfman with choreography for Assassins at Yale Repertory Theater. She has gleefully rejoined David Dorfman Dance in the last two years for performances at the Met Breuer & Cooper-Hewitt Museums in NYC, in Athens, Greece, Jackson, WY, Jacob’s Pillow, Ohio U (the other Athens), Conn College, Brooklyn Academy of Music, El Salvador and Santa Ana, CA. When not dancing, Race is an Associate Professor of Dance at Connecticut College.
RACHEL BOGGIA
Rachel Boggia loves to learn through performing, teaching, choreographing, making documentaries, creating mediated environments and participating in interdisciplinary collaborations. She is in her first year as an Associate Professor of Dance at Connecticut College. Previously, she served on the faculty of Bates College, Wesleyan University, Dickinson College, and the Bates Dance Festival. She holds an MFA from The Ohio State University and a BS from Cornell University.
DAVID DORFMAN
David Dorfman (CC MFA in Dance, ’81) has been creating movement-based theater in and around NYC and internationally since 1981. He has received numerous fellowships and awards including a “Bessie” for DAVID DORFMAN DANCE’s community-based project Familiar Movements (The Family Project), a Guggenheim for his research on power and protest which led to DDD’s underground, NEA support, the first Paul Taylor Fellowship from The Yard on Martha’s Vineyard, and recently a Lucille Lortel Award for choreographing INDECENT’s Off-Broadway run. Recent DAVID DORFMAN DANCE highlights include a 30th Anniversary Season at BAM’s Next Wave Festival with Aroundtown in Nov. 2017, and a State Department-sponsored trip to El Salvador to do work on violence prevention with young people. An avid fan of live music and collaboration, he continues his serio-comic work, Live Sax Acts, with Dan Froot. They will be “performing” the final conference presentation at Jews and Jewishness in the Dance World: A Lasting Legacy? at ASU in October. David just began his 15th year of blissful full-time teaching at Connecticut College where he chaired the Dance Department for a decade and where he has had the distinct pleasure of presenting much of DDD’s body of work via the onStage Guest Artist Series. DDD has been Company-in-Residence at the College since 2007. He, above all, thanks the three and only Lisa, Samson, and Bev for collaborating on their very delicious in-house family project.
ANNIE KLOPPENBERG
Annie Kloppenberg is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Theater and Dance at Colby College. She serves on the Board of the American College Dance Association and co-founded Boston's Moving Target Class series. She presents both scholarly and creative research nationally and internationally at conferences and concert venues. Her current research addresses pedagogies of choreography and ensemble improvisation as a performance form. (Her article Improvisation in Process: "Post Control "Choreography considered improvisation as a tool in the creative process.) www.anniekloppenberg.com for more information.
SASHA PETERSON
Sasha Peterson currently lives and grew up dancing in the Boston area. In 2016, she completed a dance major at Connecticut College, through which she had the privilege of learning from and performing works by dance faculty as well as guests Kyle Abraham, Ronald K. Brown, Wendell Cooper, Nina Flagg of Rennie Harris Puremovement, Molly Lieber/Eleanor Smith, Kendra Portier, and Doug Varone. In addition to dancing with Lisa Race, she has recently danced with Ali Kenner Brodsky & Co., Betsy Miller Dance Projects, apprenticed with David Dorfman Dance, and is a company member with Grant Jacoby & Dancers and Ruckus Dance.