Additional Resources
Artist's Official Website: http://improvarts.alkem.org/
Millennium Stage Home Page
Part of the Performing Arts for Everyone Initiative
DANIEL BURKHOLDER
About the Artist
Under the direction of Daniel Burkholder, The PlayGround focuses on developing unique methods for creating and performing movement-based improvisational work. This exploration delves into how work is structured, what is meaning and authenticity, and the relationships among all the participants (dancers, musicians, technicians and audience). By combining some of the best improvisational dancers and musicians in the DC area, The PlayGround has established itself as an innovative voice in the dance community.
Daniel Burkholder is the Director of The PlayGround and co-director of Improv Arts, inc. His work has been presented at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Dance Place, The Clarice Smith Center for the Performing Arts, The H Street Playhouse, The Warehouse Theater and throughout the Mid-Atlantic region. He has been commissioned to create work by The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, CrossCurrents Dance Company, Dance Place and the Choreographers’ Collaboration Project. Daniel holds degrees from Sarah Lawrence College, American University, Moving On Center/School for Participatory Arts and is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practioner.
Past Performances
November 17, 2008
2005 Local Dance Commissioning Project recipient Daniel Burkholder/The Playground presents My ocean is never blue, a work that explores our complex relationships to water from the personal to the environmental and political. The program includes a new solo by Artistic Director Daniel Burkholder and works by company members Stefanie Quinones Bass and Christine Stone Martin.
September 2, 2005
Improvisation company The Playground, under the direction of Daniel Burkholder, presents Songs That Sinatra Sung, a post-modern improvisational look at Twyla Tharp’s Nine Sinatra Songs, which explores romantic relationships of the ’50s. LOCAL DANCE COMMISSIONING PROJECT: SONGS THAT SINATRA SUNG
September 1, 2005
Improvisation company The Playground, under the direction of Daniel Burkholder, presents Songs That Sinatra Sung, a post-modern improvisational look at Twyla Tharp’s Nine Sinatra Songs, which explores romantic relationships of the ’50s. LOCAL DANCE COMMISSIONING PROJECT: SONGS THAT SINATRA SUNG
June 24, 2004
Under the direction of Daniel Burkholder, The Playground focuses on unique methods for creating and performing movement-based improvisational work.
February 28, 2003
The Present Tense is a performance of improvisational dance and music featuring Daniel Burkholder (The PlayGround) and Sharon Mansur (impact performance). Pieces include In my skin, trajectory altered slightly and excerpt from buried in the sky.
