Fri January 29, 2016
Douglas Dunn: You Can't Make Art By Making Art
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at San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) - closed
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Douglas Dunn has been dancing and making dances for 43 years. He has always embraced collaborations with visual artists in order to offer a multifaceted theatrical experience. In particular, Dunn’s work with artist David Ireland captured a generosity of spirit in art-making and mutual respect and trust for one another’s work. In her 2004 book Touching Time and Space: A Portrait Of David Ireland, Betty Klausner writes of the Ireland/Dunn collaboration: “Two artists from different disciplines, though sharing common ideas and attitudes, seem to have the best chance for a sympathetic collaboration…they totally trusted and encouraged each other.”
Dunn spoke of the harmonious collaboration as well: “David articulates space in a sculptural way; I articulate it with movement. These two approaches interact. His spaces suggest things dancers might do… he helps you be yourself.”
Ireland and Dunn collaborated on several evening length pieces starting in 1986 with Dances for Men Women and Moving Door, which premiered at Marymount Manhattan and was then performed at the Beaubourg in Paris. Their collaborations also traveled to Perth, Australia, where Dance for a Past Time was performed at the PICA Museum. In the US, Ireland and Dunn presented evenings at the La Mama Theater, and other venues in Minneapolis, Portland, and Washington, D.C.
Dunn is renowned as a teacher of Technique and of Open Structures, with a long tenure at NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. Awards include a Guggenheim, a Bessie, and Chevalier in the Ordres des Arts et des Lettres. Douglas produces Salons at his studio in Soho, and is a Board Member Emeritus of Danspace Project/St. Mark's Church. In 2012 his collected writings, available via Amazon.com, were published under the title Dancer Out of Sight.
douglasdunndance.com
Presented in conjunction with David Ireland, on view in the Walter and McBean Galleries through March 26.
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Dunn spoke of the harmonious collaboration as well: “David articulates space in a sculptural way; I articulate it with movement. These two approaches interact. His spaces suggest things dancers might do… he helps you be yourself.”
Ireland and Dunn collaborated on several evening length pieces starting in 1986 with Dances for Men Women and Moving Door, which premiered at Marymount Manhattan and was then performed at the Beaubourg in Paris. Their collaborations also traveled to Perth, Australia, where Dance for a Past Time was performed at the PICA Museum. In the US, Ireland and Dunn presented evenings at the La Mama Theater, and other venues in Minneapolis, Portland, and Washington, D.C.
Dunn is renowned as a teacher of Technique and of Open Structures, with a long tenure at NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. Awards include a Guggenheim, a Bessie, and Chevalier in the Ordres des Arts et des Lettres. Douglas produces Salons at his studio in Soho, and is a Board Member Emeritus of Danspace Project/St. Mark's Church. In 2012 his collected writings, available via Amazon.com, were published under the title Dancer Out of Sight.
douglasdunndance.com
Presented in conjunction with David Ireland, on view in the Walter and McBean Galleries through March 26.
Douglas Dunn has been dancing and making dances for 43 years. He has always embraced collaborations with visual artists in order to offer a multifaceted theatrical experience. In particular, Dunn’s work with artist David Ireland captured a generosity of spirit in art-making and mutual respect and trust for one another’s work. In her 2004 book Touching Time and Space: A Portrait Of David Ireland, Betty Klausner writes of the Ireland/Dunn collaboration: “Two artists from different disciplines, though sharing common ideas and attitudes, seem to have the best chance for a sympathetic collaboration…they totally trusted and encouraged each other.”
Dunn spoke of the harmonious collaboration as well: “David articulates space in a sculptural way; I articulate it with movement. These two approaches interact. His spaces suggest things dancers might do… he helps you be yourself.”
Ireland and Dunn collaborated on several evening length pieces starting in 1986 with Dances for Men Women and Moving Door, which premiered at Marymount Manhattan and was then performed at the Beaubourg in Paris. Their collaborations also traveled to Perth, Australia, where Dance for a Past Time was performed at the PICA Museum. In the US, Ireland and Dunn presented evenings at the La Mama Theater, and other venues in Minneapolis, Portland, and Washington, D.C.
Dunn is renowned as a teacher of Technique and of Open Structures, with a long tenure at NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. Awards include a Guggenheim, a Bessie, and Chevalier in the Ordres des Arts et des Lettres. Douglas produces Salons at his studio in Soho, and is a Board Member Emeritus of Danspace Project/St. Mark's Church. In 2012 his collected writings, available via Amazon.com, were published under the title Dancer Out of Sight.
douglasdunndance.com
Presented in conjunction with David Ireland, on view in the Walter and McBean Galleries through March 26.
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Dunn spoke of the harmonious collaboration as well: “David articulates space in a sculptural way; I articulate it with movement. These two approaches interact. His spaces suggest things dancers might do… he helps you be yourself.”
Ireland and Dunn collaborated on several evening length pieces starting in 1986 with Dances for Men Women and Moving Door, which premiered at Marymount Manhattan and was then performed at the Beaubourg in Paris. Their collaborations also traveled to Perth, Australia, where Dance for a Past Time was performed at the PICA Museum. In the US, Ireland and Dunn presented evenings at the La Mama Theater, and other venues in Minneapolis, Portland, and Washington, D.C.
Dunn is renowned as a teacher of Technique and of Open Structures, with a long tenure at NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. Awards include a Guggenheim, a Bessie, and Chevalier in the Ordres des Arts et des Lettres. Douglas produces Salons at his studio in Soho, and is a Board Member Emeritus of Danspace Project/St. Mark's Church. In 2012 his collected writings, available via Amazon.com, were published under the title Dancer Out of Sight.
douglasdunndance.com
Presented in conjunction with David Ireland, on view in the Walter and McBean Galleries through March 26.
show less
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