Dancer/choreographer David Dorfman received his MFA from Connecticut College (1981) and now chairs its dance department. Through a Guggenheim fellowship (2005), he researched power, activism, dissidence, and underground movements, leading to the production of underground at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival (2006). Dorfman has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and New York Foundation for the Arts, an American Choreographer’s Award, the first Paul Taylor Fellowship from The Yard, and a 1996 New York Dance & Performance Award (Bessie). David Dorfman Dance has appeared at numerous venues in NYC and around the world, and will celebrate its 30th anniversary with the premiere of Aroundtown in 2017. Dorfman recently had his Off-Broadway choreographic debut with INDECENT at the Vineyard Theater.