Deborah Black

• Guest Artist, M.A.D.

Deborah Black is a dance and theater artist, writer, and educator. She has performed in the work of Deborah Hay, Mary Overlie, and Susan Rethorst. While living in Rotterdam from 2013-16, she created and toured with the Tuning People (BE) and Ymist Company (NO). Her choreography has been presented in New York at the TANK, Judson Church, Roulette, Joyce SoHo, Manhattan Repertory Theatre, Dixon Place, AUNTS and in Germany at the Lucky Trimmer Tanz Performance Serie and ArToll. Deborah taught physical theater and dance at the Fontys Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Tilburg. She taught guest and master classes at Goldsmiths University London, NYU’s Experimental Theatre Wing, Drama Studio London, Ohio University, as well as private workshops in New York City and all across Europe. Sophia and Deborah’s shared questions about the intersections of theater and dance led them to work together in various capacities: teaching the Six Viewpoints and Jean Hamilton’s Floor Barre, stewarding the Mary Overlie Legacy Project with Nicolás Noreña and Tony Perucci, and creating Ephemera.