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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …