David Neumann

David Neumann

David Neumann has been a featured dancer in the works of Susan Marshall, Jane Comfort, Sally Silvers, Irene Hultman, Cathy Weiss, Big Dance Theater, and the late club legend Willi Ninja. He was a member of Doug Varone and Dancers, and an eight-year original member and collaborator with Doug Elkins Company, with whom he toured nationally and internationally. He continues to perform and choreograph for theater, opera and film working with such directors as: Hal Hartley, Laurie Anderson, Robert Woodruff, Lee Breuer, Peter Sellars, JoAnn Akalaitis, Chris Bayes, Mark Wing-Davey, Daniel Sullivan, Les Waters and Molly Smith. Recent and upcoming projects include: creature movement on ‘I Am Legend’ with Will Smith, performing in ‘Beckett Shorts’ with Mikhail Baryshnikov at New York Theater Workshop and choreographing The Bacchae at the Public Theater

As artistic director of advanced beginner group, Neumann’s work as been presented in New York at PS 122, Dance Theater Workshop, Central Park SummerStage (where he collaborated with John Giorno), Celebrate Brooklyn and Symphony Space (where he collaborated with Laurie Anderson) and The Whitney. His work has also been presented at the Walker Art Center and MASS MoCA.

He’s currently a professor of Theater at Sarah Lawrence College and a guest lecturer at both Barnard College and The Graduate Acting Program at Yale University.

New York Live Arts Partnership | October 18 – November 2, 2011

Restless Eye

Former Choreographic Fellow David Neumann returned to MANCC to develop Restless Eye, a work that explores the realm between thought and behavior, between describing life and experiencing it. While in residence, Neumann and his collaborators sourced a variety of data sets and statistics based on everyday phenomena and shared their investigations through open rehearsals with the local community, FSU students and with students at Sarah Lawrence College via Skype. Neumann and writer, Sibyl Kempson met with Dr. Karin Brewster, a Sociology professor and Director of the FSU Center for Demography and Population Health to discuss the utilization of statistical models within the developmental process. Neumann also explored the possibility of incorporating digital media in the work with collaborator Tei Blow.

The work will premier at New York Live Arts on March 24, 2012.

This New York Live Arts Partnership was made possible in part with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Collaborators in Residence: Kennis Hawkins, Neal Medlyn, Jeremy Olson, Victoria Roberts-Wierzbowski [performers], Tei Blow [technical director], Sibyl Kempson [writer]. Slideshow photos by Chris Cameron, Al Hall and David Neumann.

Choreographic Fellow | May 7 – 27, 2007

FEEDFORWARD

Neumann worked with students and his dancers on FEEDFORWARD through the exploration, expansion and a combination of the rules of sports. Neumann used the rules and tactics of different sports as “found algorithms” to determine the structure of this new ‘physical event’. Eve Beglarian worked with a local band of trombonists to develop an original score for the work.

FEEDFORWARD premiered at Dance Theatre Workshop in October, 2007.