Deborah Black
 
 

Dance theatre artist, teacher, and writer

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Upcoming…

[canceled] SHAPE _time… +  LoGiCa
Six Viewpoints Process Weekend

This workshop has been canceled, sorry for the inconvenience.

Ephemera

In a final co-creation between living artists Deborah Black and Sophia Treanor and their late collaborator Mary Overlie, Ephemera is a dance theater performance that explores entropy and the emergence of difference in our universe. Amidst a forest of sequined cook’s aprons and caps, vacuums, microwaves, and clowns, Ephemera makes visible the invisible. The logic and illogic of life’s beginnings are made material by explosions of movement and sound, expansion, contraction, symmetry, asymmetry, and popcorn, to ultimately ask: Is this all there is?

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Deborah Black is a dance theatre artist, writer, and teacher.

Deborah’s teaching and performance practice is informed by the meeting of dance and theatre and includes Six Viewpoints improvisation, Grotowski, Floor Barre, and postmodern philosophy.

The further intersection of her writing and physical practice is supported through a collaboration with poet Alyson Hallett and poet/mover Scott Thurston. She was able to develop her interdisciplinary approach as a 2022 Gardarev Artist-in-Residence.

She is the founder and facilitator of an on-line community of artists studying and researching the Six Viewpoints and is one of the four stewards of Mary Overlie’s Legacy Project. She and Sophia Treanor recently premiered a dance theatre duet left for them by Mary Overlie before her passing in 2020. This project is supported by the Harold Clurman Center for New work in Movement and Dance Theater and had its North American premiere in June, 2023.

Deborah is currently a Master’s student in the Dance Education Program at NYU and recently taught an advanced curriculum course at Queens College. Previously, she taught physical theatre and dance at the Fontys Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Tilburg. She taught guest and master classes at Goldsmith’s University London, NYU’s Experimental Theatre Wing, Drama Studio London, Capilano University, Ohio University, Skidmore College, Rowan University, James Madison University, University of South Florida, as well as private workshops in New York City and all across Europe.

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photo by Dave Ratzlow