David Neumann /
advanced beginner group

feedforward

Known for his sophisticated use of humor within a multi-disciplinary approach to dance-making, David Neumann/advanced beginner group continues to explore the boundaries of dance by bending habitual gestures around new shapes. feedforward, David's first evening-length commission at Dance Theater Workshop, explores the analogous relationship between contemp-orary performance and athletic events with live music composed by Eve Beglarian. This contest of disciplines is danced through the mind and its tragic strategies.

The above video is a clip from Imperial Animal by Richard Sylvarnes.

feedforward is commissioned by the Bessie Schönberg/First Light Commissioning Program and Creative Residency Program of Dance Theater Workshop with support from the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Jerome Robbins Foundation. feedforward was commissioned as part of a national series of works from Meet The Composer’s Commissioning Music/USA program, which is made possible by generous support from the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Francis Goelet Trust, the Helen F. Whitaker Fund, Target, and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. feedforward received commissioning support from the New York State Council on the Arts Dance Program. This presentation is made possible, in part, by the generous support of Judy and Steven Gluckstern, and Dianne and Daniel Vapnek Family Fund through the David R. White Producers Circle.

feedforward was commissioned as part of a national series of works from Meet The Composer’s Commissioning Music/USA program, which is made possible by generous support from the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Francis Goelet Trust, the Helen F. Whitaker Fund, Target, and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.