David Dorfman (Choreographer and Dance Activist) (he/him), has been making movement-based dance theater since graduating with an MFA in Dance from Connecticut College in 1981. In 1987, he founded David Dorfman Dance in NYC with the intention of creating politically and socially relevant work. A life-long educator, David has been a professor at Connecticut College since 2004, where DDD is Company-in-Residence. David choreographed Broadway’s “Indecent,” for which he was given a Lortel for its Off-Broadway run and has also received a 2019 USA Fellowship in Dance, a Guggenheim, 4 National Endowment For the Arts fellowships and a Bessie Award. David Dorfman’s early performing years were happily spent with Kei Takei’s Moving Earth and Susan Marshall & Co. In his copious spare time, he has co-created and toured internationally a body of tragi-comic physical theater with dear friend Dan Froot, entitled “Live Sax Acts”— and he continues to dance profusely with wife Lisa Race and son Samson Race Dorfman. He is thrilled to return to Chicago, where he grew up and spent a lot of time on various disco dance floors – and to work with South Chicago Dance Theatre for the first time.