Avoiding the Procession, Fearing the Plague
Avoiding the Procession, Fearing the Plague
Created in 2017 and performed in New York City as well as FIDCDMX, the International Contemporary Dance Festival of Mexico City. This dark-spirited solo explores soft and lush movement clashing with a horror-inspired costume.
Created in 2017 and performed in New York City as well as FIDCDMX, the International Contemporary Dance Festival of Mexico City. This dark-spirited solo explores soft and lush movement clashing with a horror-inspired costume.
I’m a dancer, choreographer, and educator, living in Brooklyn, NY. My first evening-length work, “Grandfather Visit”, premiered in October 2022. It has since been presented at venues in NYC, across the US, and internationally. I am the founder of More Fish Dance Company, a Bessie Award-nominated performer, Dance Magazine’s “Best Performers of 2016”, and an extraordinary ability in the arts visa recipient. I’m a certified Gaga teacher, creator of Super Chill Ballet and More Fish Partnering classes at Gibney Dance Center, and adjunct professor at NYU Tisch. Previously, I danced with the Croatian National Ballet, Compañía Nacional de Danza (Spain), and the Batsheva Ensemble.
I research the body as a live archive. My movement style is my life story: folk dance, ballet, Gaga, and more… Many layers of philosophies and traditions juxtaposed and combined. I love elastic muscles, loose joints, articulated spines, and harmonious partner work. For me, dance happens in the moment when inherited knowledge meets direct experience, and everything connects. I cultivate this by asking dancers to play between pre-set choreography and improvisation, bringing real-time choice and heightened senses to the forefront of my work. Today’s world is full of crises. Dance is a protest and a refuge. It is a space for catharsis, unrestrained joy, admiration of others in their rawest forms, and affirmation of self through the experience of the body.
- Doron Perk
Choreography
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Classes
Contemporary Research
Super Chill Ballet
GAGA
Fridays | 2-3:45 pm | Gibney 280
Mondays | 10 - 11:45 am | Gibney 890
This class invites dancers to share in my ongoing research, an intersection of improvisational methods, ballet, voice work, and stage presence development. Much like Jazz, I believe in the power of juxtaposing structure and freedom to expand our ability to feel, connect, and be creative. Each class begins with an hour of follow-along warm-up, followed by repertoire learning or a short creation process.
This intermediate/advanced ballet class is inspired by the philosophy of Zvi Gotheiner, once hailed as the “Zen Dance Master of New York” by The New York Times. Led by Doron Perk, who’s worked closely with Zvi for nearly a decade, the class offers a space for dancers, pros and advanced students, to move, explore, and be themselves. Ballet is the framework, but there’s lots of room to play: you can modify, improvise, ask questions, do less, or do more. Whatever helps you connect. The focus is on staying curious, working with what you’ve got, and keeping your dancing alive and personal. In the end, it’s a chance to dance fully and enjoy the work.
Gaga/dancers deepens dancers’ awareness of physical sensations, expands their palette of available movement options, enhances their ability to modulate their energy and engage their explosive power, and enriches their movement quality with a wide range of textures. The layering of familiar skills with Gaga tasks presents dancers with fresh challenges, and throughout the class, teachers prompt the dancers to visit more unfamiliar places and ways of moving as well, unlocking the endlessness of possibilities. Dancers are guided to connect their effort to pleasure and to discover the virtue of silliness.
