As part of the Combustible Residency at CounterPulse.
inCIVILITY: P.1 Instability, 2018
As part of FURY Factory Festival 2018.
Studio 210 Residency 2017
Premiere: July 28th, 2017 | Studio 210 DSDT Studio 210 Summer Residency was thrilled to support 13th floor and Sarah Cecilia for DSDT’s 6th Summer Residency Showing. On July 28 & 29, performances were followed by a conversation with the artists and with choreographer Deborah Slater, held at Studio 210 Theater. Sarah Cecilia | Don’t Be Dainty Sarah Cecilia’s work, Don’t …
Time’s Arrow, 2017
Premiered: March 24th, 2017 | Studio 210, San Francisco Deborah Slater Dance Theater announced our 27th Home Season with the intimate and emotionally powerful TIME’S ARROW, performed in our home theater for an unusual three week-end run! Built in two sections, ‘In the Before’ and ‘For the Time Being,’ Times Arrow draws inspiration from Ruth Ozeki’s novel ‘A Tale For …
Line of Beauty, 2014
Premiere: October 24-25th, 2014 | Jewish Community Center, SF Lush, beautiful, sensuous, engaged: Line of Beauty began as a response to 18th century English painter, satirist, and writer William Hogarth’s essay on beauty not being a straight line and became an investigation of love over time, aided by Jane Hirshfield’s elegant poetry, which led us to to develope a new work For …
Private Life, 2014
Premiere: Thursday, December 11th, 2014 | ODC Theater, SF Three years in the making, Izzie-Award winning PRIVATE LIFE is a series of interconnecting stories about a group of American soldiers and their families. With text by poet Deborah Crooks, original music by composer Bruno Louchouarn, and choreography and direction by Deborah Slater, PRIVATE LIFE plumbs the emotional depths of military …
Night Falls, 2011
Premiere: October 20-30, 2011 | ODC Theater, San Francisco Peregrine can’t sleep. The following day she’s turning sixty and has to give a speech which she’s not yet written… so she bounces off the walls of her apartment in the middle of the night trying to figure out what to do about getting older and what the hell she’s going …
Echoes Made Visible, 2011
Premiere: 2011 | SF MOMA Echoes Made Visible is a commission from SF MOMA for DSDT to create a work in response to composer Bill Fontana’s installation SONIC SHADOWS in its closing week-end at the Museum. Using the architectural lines of the building, the surface design of the bridge and the sound coming from the boiler room, we created a movement response, …
Men Think They are Better than Grass, 2010
Premiered: April 30th, 2010 | Theater Artaud, San Francisco Deborah Slater Dance Theater presents the world premiere of Men Think They Are Better Than Grass, an innovative and powerful multidisciplinary dance work that celebrates the company’s 20th anniversary. Men Think They Are Better Than Grass is a large-scale, multidisciplinary work that draws upon the beauty of the natural world and inspired …
The Desire Line, 2007
Premiered: May 4, 2007 | Dance Mission Theater, San Francisco A letter, a suitcase, a glance… and everything changes. “The Desire Line” is Dance theater about choice, change, balance and loss of balance in the landscape of everyday living. This piece is inspired by the paintings of Alan Feltus and an architectural landscape term “the desire line”. The desire line …