The Chocolate Factory
Oct 26-29 2022
Something personal.
A means of transmission.
Bearing witness.
Morning Light
The New York Choral Society presents Morning Light, a multidisciplinary digital performance of composer Kevin Siegfried’s new arrangement for a cappella chorus of the Shaker song Morning Light in collaboration with artist and choreographer David Thomson.
Extended Life Dance 3 Year Development Residency Fellowship
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
2019-2021
Dark and Stormy, when the going gets tough grab pussy
A raucous post-modern parody of Trump and Stormy Daniels played off of Tina Turner's Proud Mary. Sex, gender, power and privilege. Everything is upended!
Sundays on Broadway
4 November 2018 6p
Movement Research at Judson
12 November 2018 8p
The 34th Annual NY Dance & Performance Bessie Awards
The Skirball Center at NYU
Monday, October 8th, 2018 6p
The New York Dance and Performance Awards, also known as The Bessies, is a yearly event celebrated the work of artists who have performed in New York City during the course of the past season. he his own mythical beast received a Bessie...
Spinning a Yarn
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
Sunday, September 23, 2018 12:30 pm
For the closing of Contra la Pared, David Thomson collaborated with exhibiting artist Analia Segal to create a solo.
he his own mythical beast (premiere)
Performance Space 122 | COIL Festival 2018
150 First Avenue, at the corner of 9th Street
New York, NY
Jan 31 – Feb 2 7:30pm
Feb 4 3pm
The culmination of a series of performance installations that Interrogates the suppositions of neutrality of presence, and the black body in a postmodern world.
Sorry I Missed Your Show: wondering who we are
Gibney Dance 280 Broadway
(Enter at 53A Chambers)
Wednesday, December 6 / 6:30 – 8:00 pm / FREE
David Thomson, in discussion with Okwui Okpokwasili, connects his work with Poet/theater artist and musician Sekou Sundiata’s 51st (dream) state to his current performance research project, he his own mythical beast
The Yard | Bessie Schonberg Choreography Residency
The Yard
Martha's Vineyard
Chilmark, MA
22 May - 11 June 2017
A three week shared residency with Raja Feather Kelly and his company, the feath3r theory. Continued development of the final section of he his own mythical beast, with two performances at the end of the residency.
Barnard College | Tone
Creation of new work at Barnard College, Performances at New York Live Arts, December 1-3
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.
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.
see yourself when (2015)
Movement Research at Judson Church
21 September 2015
A Venus intervention...
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...
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
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.
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.
51st (dream) state: Fully Human (2006)
from Sekou Sundiata's 51st (dream) state
Conceived and written by Sekou Sundiata