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In 1981, he received his Master of Fine Arts in dance from Connecticut College in New London, Connecticut, where he is regularly the chairperson of the department of dance, having joined the faculty in 2004.
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David Dorfman
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Foreign the actor, see David Dorfman, and for the screenwriter, see David South. Dorfman
A native of Chicago, he received his bachelor of science in business administration degree in 1977 from Olin Business School at Washington University in Saint Louis. In 1985 he founded his company David Dorfman Dance, one of the nation"s leading modern dance companies. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005 to continue his research and choreography in the topics of power and powerlessness, including activism, dissidence and underground movements.
He has also been awarded four fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, 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").
His choreography has been produced in New York City at venues ranging from Lincoln Center Out of Doors and the Brooklyn Academy of Music Next Wave Festival to The Kitchen, the Joyce Theater, Dance Theater hop, Danspace Project/Saint Mark"s Church, P.S. 122 and Dancing in the Streets. In addition to his work in dance, Dorfman also performs with the New London-based hip hop band Above/Below, playing baritone saxophone.
Dorfman was the recipient of a 2010 Whalie Award (southeastern Connecticut music awards) for the best hip hop/rap group for his work with the band, as well as a 2011 Whalie for Album of the Year for the release <<Two Sides>>.
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