2025 World Premiere
(run time is approximately 75 minutes, no intermission)
Thurs, Jan 09
7:30pm w/ Opening Night Party
Fri, Jan 10
7:30pm w/ Q&A
Sat, Jan 11
2:00pm / 7:30pm
Sun, Jan 12
7:30pm w/ Q&A
Mon, Jan 13
2:00pm / 9:00pm
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Reserved Premier Seating: $125.00
General Admission: $50.00
Student: $25.00 must show ID at box office
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about the piece
David Dorfman Dance's truce songs is a wild and personal meditation on peace with self and others. It asks “what if we surrendered first”; “what if we fought differently”; “what if we changed the roles we play?” And then: how far can we push ourselves in the direction of those imagined outcomes? With visuals by Andrew Schneider, costumes by Naoko Nagata and live music by Lizzy de Lise and Sam Crawford, truce songs is devised dance/theater for all audiences. Performers include David Dorfman, Jack Blackmon, Michaela Ellingson, Lily Gelfand, Kashia Kancey, Nik Owens, Lisa Race and Claudia-Lynn Rightmire. Come experience truces in the making.
Directions to Irondale Center
Irondale Center / The Space at Irondale: 85 S Oxford Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217, United States
Entrance: can be accessed by entering through the 2 maroon doors on Oxford Street. A red lamp hangs over the doors, with three steps or a ramp available for use.
By Subway
- C train to Lafayette Avenue is just down the block (exit at South Oxford Street, church is halfway up the block on your right)
- B, D, N, Q, R, 2, 3, 4, or 5 train to Atlantic Avenue/Pacific Street, walk north on Hanson place to South Oxford, turn left and the church will be on your right.
- G train to Fulton Street, then walk up Lafayette avenue, make a right on South Oxford Street, and church will be on your left.
By Car
There is on-street parking available, as well as several parking lots close by:
- Atlantic Terrace Parking Lots- 201 S Portland Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217
- Enterprise Parking Systems- 147 Flatbush Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11201
- GGMC Parking- Atlantic Center, 625 Atlantic Ave B12, Brooklyn, NY 11217
- Park Kwik- 286 Ashland Pl, Brooklyn, NY 11217
Individuals needing special assistance should notify Journee Hardaway at journee@daviddorfmandance.org or (917) 780-2453. Handi-Lift and wheelchair are available onsite. Please note there are flashing lights and a few strobing effects throughout the performance.
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about The Company…
innovative, inclusive,
movement-based performance
that is radically humanistic.
movement is necessary
“To get the whole world dancing” is at the core of DDD’s mission. We strive to promote the appreciation and critical understanding of dance by bringing the company’s work to ever-expanding groups of diverse audiences. David and his company seek to make post-modern dance more accessible by embracing viewers with visceral, meaningful dance, music, text, and visuals. By creating innovative, inclusive, movement-based performances that are radically humanistic, DDD maintains its commitment to examine and unearth issues and ideas that enliven, incite, and excite. Our work fosters dialogue and debate about social change, personal growth, agency and a myriad of other topics. David and the company’s dancers and collaborators have been honored with eight New York Dance and Performance (Bessie) Awards.
Founded in 1987, David Dorfman Dance (DDD) has performed extensively throughout the world - North and South America, Great Britain, Europe and was invited to tour countries in Central Asia: Turkey, Tajikistan, and Armenia with DanceMotion USA. Our most recent foreign tours have taken us to El Salvador and Panama. Closer to home, DDD has regularly performed in New York City at major venues, including The Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival, The Joyce Theater, The Kitchen, Danspace Project, The Duke on 42nd Street, The Met Breuer, and the 92NY/Harkness Dance Festival. DDD celebrates its 17th year as Company-in-Residence at Connecticut College where David Dorfman earned his MFA in dance in 1981 and then returned as Professor of Dance in 2004.
“He always has a quality of celebration in his work and, structurally, his choreography can be a bit wild, a bit untamed.” –The New York Times
truce songs was commissioned by Dancers’ Workshop in Jackson Hole, WY. Additional funding provided by Connecticut College, Harkness Foundation for Dance, New Music USA’s Organization Fund in 2024-25, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs and New York State Council on the Arts. In addition, the work was researched and created in residence at American Dance Festival, Barnard College, Lehigh Valley Charter School for the Arts, Muhlenberg College, NC State University, LEAP of New Haven, NYU Tisch Summer Residency Program, Rhode Island College, San Jose State University, The Maya Brin Institute for New Performance at the University of Maryland, The Neltje Center for Excellence and Creativity in the Arts, and University of Wyoming.
Banner video footage by Erica MacLean
