Leslie Scalapino Award Reading | The Triumph of Crowds
New Ohio Theater 5 December 2016 I had the pleasure of performing in the reading for Third annual Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Playwrights. Brigid McLeer is the recipient of the third annual Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Playwrights. In memory of Leslie Scalapino and her “commitment to the community of experimental writing...
The Commons Choir | BROOKLYN REZOUND (work-in-progress)
BROOKLYN REZOUND, created by The Commons Choir in collaboration with composer Darius Jones, is an investigative musical and dance performance that delves into the history of diversity and displacement in Brooklyn.
The Voyeurs | Madison Square Park
The Voyeurs
Madison Square Park
23rd Street and Broadway
New York City
15, 16 September 2016
6p
18 September 2016
2p
Mt Tremper Arts Watershed Lab Residency | Performance
he his own mythical beast
Residency
5-11 September 2016
Performance
Saturday, September 10, 8:00 pm / Tickets $15
This process version of he his own mythical beast uses new and material accumulated from prior performance installations to build a multifaceted experience engaging the edges and issues of identity, power, myth and America.
a canary torsi | CAST, STAGE, AUTHOR
This summer I had the pleasure of working on a new project with Yanira Castro. We began with a series of extended interviews in the Spring and workshops in the Summer. CAST, STAGE, AUTHOR is a trilogy of works to premiere for three weeks in September 2017 at three commissioning NYC venues: The Chocolate Factory,...
The Voyeurs | Brooklyn Bridge Park
The Voyeurs
A performance installation by David Thomson
July 23 at 5:30 & 6:30 pm
Empire Fulton Ferry at Brooklyn Bridge Park
Art AIDS America | Bronx Museum
The first comprehensive overview of 30 years of art made in response to the AIDS epidemic in the United States
Opening night performance
Wednesday, July 13th
2nd floor North Wing
7:15pm
Look up here, I’m in heaven
BRIC Arts Media
July 6, 2016 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
“A thing that is hoped or wished for but in fact is illusory or impossible to achieve.”
Performances by exhibition artist David Antonio Cruz, and artists Jaamil Olawale Kosoko and David Thomson that explore contradictions in identity, freedom, and materiality of the black/brown body.
Kaneza Schaal | Go Forth
River to River Festival | LMCC
River to River Festival
The Arts Center at Governors Island, Building 110
Thu, Jun 16 from 4:30–5:30pm
Fri, Jun 17 from 4:30–5:30pm
Sat, Jun 18 from 2:30–3:30pm
Sun, Jun 19 from 2:30–3:30pm
“…a (fine) place to consider existence beneath and beyond the earth, “Go Forth” finds an immediate and visceral strength in ancient codes of mourning.”
–...
Yvonne Rainer | The Concept of Dust: Continuous Project-Altered Annually
The Kitchen
2-4 June 2016
8p
ADI/NYC PremiereThe Concept of Dust: Continuous Project-Altered Annually” is an ongoing work-in-progress that interweaves formal dance and personal themes of aging and mortality with humor and diverse texts
Maria Hassabi | PLASTIC
February 21 - March 20, 2016
Museum of Modern Art
Artist and choreographer Maria Hassabi’s PLASTIC is a commissioned live installation in which dancers perform throughout MoMA continuously during opening hours.
Process Space Residency | Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
1 - 29 February 2016
125 Maiden Lane Studio
Kaneza Schaal | Go Forth
7-12 January 2016
Westbeth Center
Drawing inspiration from the Egyptian Book of the Dead, GO FORTH is a performance and photo installation that considers how we create space in our lives for the presence of the absent.
Non-Sequitur by Khadijah Queen
10 - 20 December 2015
Thursday thru Sunday
8pm Thu-Fri-Sat, 3pm Sun
Theaterlab
357 West 36th Street, 3rd fl, New York NY 10018
(elevator)
Artist Conversation with Nelisiwe Xaba
David Thomson will lead a live interview and discussion with Nelisiwe Xaba around the political and aesthetic resonances in her work.
David Bowie | Blackstar
Got a call out of the blue to do a music video…they couldn’t tell me the name of the artist as it was extremely confidential. When I got to rehearsal and discovered who it was, it blew my mind!! It was a pleasure meeting the man & legend. He will be missed…
Yvonne Rainer | The Concept of Dust, or How do you look when there’s nothing left to move?
25 October 7pm
FIAC & Musée du Louvre / Auditorium du Louvre
Paris, France
28 October
La Cartonnerie - Friche La Belle de Mai
Marseille, France
Patricia Hoffbauer | Dances for Intimate Spaces and Friendly People
Performances
Wednesday, September 30 through Saturday, October 03
7:30 pm
Gibney Dance: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center
280 Broadway (Entrance at 53A Chambers)
see yourself when (2015)
Movement Research at Judson Church
21 September 2015
A Venus intervention...
a canary torsi | Performance Portrait: Live (work-in-progress) (2015)
August 2015
Performance Portrait: Live is an interactive, multi-channel video installation that focuses on the symbiotic relationship between performer and spectator.
Critical Correspondence | Takahiro Yamamoto in Conversation with David Thomson
26 July 2015
An informal conversation with Takahiro on aspects of aesthetics, cultural identity, practice and form.
Yvonne Rainer | The Concept of Dust, or How do you look when there’s nothing left to move?
14th July 8pm
Teatro Sociale
Como, Italy
Yvonne Rainer | The Concept of Dust, or How do you look when there’s nothing left to move?
June 9–14, 2015
The Museum of Modern Art presents the East Coast premiere of Yvonne Rainer's latest work. This ongoing work-in-progress interweaves formal dance with personal themes of aging and mortality, humor, and diverse texts—intermittently read by Rainer and the dancers—dealing with ancient Mideast dynasties, paleontological findings, and literary quotations.
Gibney DiP Residency 2015
Dance in Process (DiP) is the signature program of Gibney Dance’s Choreographic Center. DiP provides nuanced creative residency support for mid-career New York City-based artists.
18 May - 23 May 2015
31 August - 5 September 2015
30 November - 5 December 2015
the venus knot (2015)
Saturday 16 May 2015 2 to 6pm
Sunday 17 May 2015 1 to 5pm
The Invisible Dog Art Center
A durational performance installation. Entangled as we are with total freedom. A thing of immortal make, not human, snorting out the breath, the terrible flame of bright fire...
Food for Thought
1 May 2015
Danspace Project
Charged Spaces
Daria Faïn, Massimiliano Balduzzi and Christine Bonansea Saulut
Curated by David Thomson
FOOD FOR THOUGHT is a benefit series supporting neighborhood food distribution programs. This benefit performance/canned food drive collects non-perishable items and presents new works by a range of choreographers.
Daria Faïn & Robert Kocik | BROOKLYN REZOUND
21 April 2015
BRIC
As part of BRIC’s Stoop Series The Commons Choir will perform BROOKLYN REZOUND, conceived and directed by Robert Kocik & Daria Fain with another fascinating cast of performers. A sonic and physical mediation on commerce, language, and Brooklyn's history.
Beth Gill | Portrait Studies
April 15, 2015
Live Ideas Festival
S K Y – Force and Wisdom in America Today
Portrait Studies is a commissioned pièce d'occasion directed by Beth Gill. Sharing the program with Laurie Anderson and Deborah Hay.
E-Moves presents Malcolm Low
April 10, 11, 17, 2015
Harlem Stage Gatehouse
E-Moves Festival
Malcolm Low's
In the thrust towards the future…I want to leave something of use
BRIClab: Okwui Okpokwasili
3 & 4 April 2015
BRIC
Okwui Okpokwasili's Poor People's TV Room (work in progress)
Moderating a post-show artist and audience dialogue.
Tanz Farm presents Malcolm Low | In the thrust towards the future (2015)
March 26-28, 2015
Tanz Farm
Atlanta, GA
Malcolm Low's
In the thrust towards the future…I want to leave something of use
Walker Arts Center presents Tere O’Connor | BLEED
March 19-21, 2015
Walker Arts Center
Minneapolis, MN
The final performances of BLEED
Venus Rising: Seeing through Blackness, Laughing Through Whiteness
A collaboration with the artist Tony Whitfield. Initiated as a somewhat traditional interaction between photographer and model, this work represents the unexpected intersection of distinctly different artistic practices and has become phase one in a collaboration between choreographer/performance artist David Hamilton Thomson and artist/designer Tony Whitfield exploring maturation in an idiosyncratic racialized body.
#spacetobreathe
February 2 - March 27, 2015
Gibney Dance Center
The recent cultural climate has shed light on the systemic conflation of violence with the black male body—bodies that are often perceived as threatening. Featuring visual artwork by performing artists Raja Feather Kelly, Jaamil Kosoko, Jumatatu Poe, Will Rawls and David Thomson (in collaboration with artist/designer Tony Whitfield),...
Tere O’Connor | Sister
JAN 9 & 11, 2015
American Realness
Abrons Arts Center
New York Premiere of the third part of the quartet which culminates in BLEED. In Sister, hyper-intricate rhythmic systems provide the chatter between the performers as they are propelled into an increasingly mysterious cascade of events.
Venus Redux (2014)
During a two-week residency at The Invisible Dog, I focused on building new material, setting a structure, creating text to overlay, and continuing to explore a 360° performance field.
Mash (2013)
March 25 ,2013
Movement Research at Judson
conceived and directed by David Thomson
performed by Anna Azrieli, Marya Wethers, Malcolm Low, Jodi Bender
Hunger (2012)
June 24 ,2012
Movement Research at Judson Church
conceived & directed by david thomson
movement by david thomson
text by okwui okpokwasili
performed by david thomson & okwui okpokwasili
Alain Buffard | Baron Samedi (2012)
Premiered in April 2012 at the Théâtre de Nîmes in France, Alain Buffard’s Baron Samedi is named after a Haitian “Vaudou” spirit. A tutelary figure for the work, Baron Samedi invokes ghosts, extracts the perfect dancing body and is a symbol of visibility in life and invisibility in death. Buffard continues his longstanding connection with...
Parallels: The End (2012)
March 30 ,2012
Danspace Project
Parallels: The End
Solo conceived and performed by David Thomson
Ralph Lemon curated this closing event inviting twelve performers into a marathon event.
Velvet (2012)
February 3, 2012
Roulette
a collaboration/introduction....including mayhem, desire, thoughts and consequences
One-Shot #2 (2010)
One-Shot is a video relay
One-Shot is a solo performance relay for the internet curated by Sarah Maxfield and produced in collaboration with the Gibney Dance Center.
Considering an Exhibition (2009)
A photographer wrestles with his conscience in his small attic studio at night. In a crisis of faith, he keeps returning to his stark black-and-white images for proof that what he does matters. After a bath, image and reality merge into a new beginning. By Marta Renzi, with David Hamilton Thomson, camera Jake Goldwasser, photos...
Bear Lake (2007)
After my father passed away a friend, Warren Muller, invited me to stay with him in the Poconos to heal and breathe. He introduced me to James Brown, who ran a store out there. He closed the shop early and took us to Bear Lake for a swim. This is a document of a...
51st (dream) state: The Aftermath (2006)
from Sekou Sundiata's 51st (dream) state (2006)
51st (dream) State is nationally acclaimed poet Sekou Sundiata’s contemplation of America’s national identity, power in the world and guiding mythologies. The work, which Sundiata imagined as his poetic and personal “State of the American Soul Address,” explores how America defines itself in a new era characterized by unprecedented...
Hotel Civilization (2006)
51st (dream) State is nationally acclaimed poet Sekou Sundiata’s contemplation of America’s national identity, power in the world and guiding mythologies.