Avoiding the Procession, Fearing the Plague
Avoiding the Procession, Fearing the Plague
Created in 2017 and performed in New York City as well as FIDCDMX, the International Contemporary Dance Festival of Mexico City. This dark-spirited solo explores soft and lush movement clashing with a horror-inspired costume.
Created in 2017 and performed in New York City as well as FIDCDMX, the International Contemporary Dance Festival of Mexico City. This dark-spirited solo explores soft and lush movement clashing with a horror-inspired costume.
Doron Perk is a Brooklyn-based choreographer, educator, and dancer with two decades of experience spanning concert dance, ballet, and improvisation-based practices.
Perk's current work, “The News”, is supported by a New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) grant and was developed through residencies at The Dragon's Egg CT and Kirkland Farm PA. His earlier choreographic work has earned a Brooklyn Arts Fund Grant, a New York Foundation for the Arts Grant, and a Bessie Award nomination. In 2016, Dance Magazine named him one of its "Best Performers of the Year."
His work has been commissioned by Conder|dance, NYU Tisch (A Kind of Surrender, Landscape, Sonata), DANCE NOW (DWAM, The Twirling Douches, MATCH), and LABA – Laboratory for Jewish Culture (Grandfather Visit, The News). It has been presented at The Tank, Dixon Place, the Mexico City Contemporary Dance Festival, West Fest, Dance Gallery Festival, Motion State Dance Festival, and 92Y Future Dance Festival. Additional residencies include LMCC Governors Island and the Ardsley Summer Residency.
From 2022 to 2025, Perk served as Artistic Director and Choreographer of More Fish Dance Company, following three years as Associate Artistic Director of ZviDance.
As a performer, he danced with ZviDance, the Batsheva Ensemble, Compañía Nacional de Danza in Madrid, and the Croatian National Theatre in Split. He trained at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance and the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris.
Perk teaches as an Adjunct Professor at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, a Teaching Artist at Gibney Dance Center, and a certified Gaga Movement instructor.
Choreography
GRANDFATHER VISIT
2021
a dance solo exploring themes of grief and heritage, inspired by the many visits to my grandfather throughout my life. I created it as a response to his death and as a tool to explore my identity as a grandchild of a Holocaust survivor. Brought to life thanks to a LABA fellowship at the 14Y NYC.
MATCH
2025
an adaptable work built from research on responsive partnering with Tori Mazzacone exploring a dynamic relationship between equals.
THE NEWS
2026
a solo dance piece that combines breaking news livestreams, movement improvisation, a Mozart Piano Sonata, and original songs to explore the experience of being human in these unprecedented times.
to premier on 12/5/26
dwam
2023
Collaboration with opera singer Ahava Katzin and dancers Nat Wilson and PJ Verhoest exploring a state of a feverish day dream.
Videos of full works + press kit/tech riders available upon request.
Please email doronperk@gmail.com
Classes
Super Chill Ballet
Fridays | 10 - 11:45 am | Gibney 890
This intermediate/advanced ballet class is inspired by the philosophy of Zvi Gotheiner, once hailed as the “Zen Dance Master of New York” by The New York Times. Led by Doron Perk, who’s worked closely with Zvi for nearly a decade, the class offers a space for dancers, pros and advanced students, to move, explore, and be themselves. Ballet is the framework, but there’s lots of room to play: you can modify, improvise, ask questions, do less, or do more. Whatever helps you connect. The focus is on staying curious, working with what you’ve got, and keeping your dancing alive and personal. In the end, it’s a chance to dance fully and enjoy the work.
GAGA
Gaga/dancers deepens dancers’ awareness of physical sensations, expands their palette of available movement options, enhances their ability to modulate their energy and engage their explosive power, and enriches their movement quality with a wide range of textures. The layering of familiar skills with Gaga tasks presents dancers with fresh challenges, and throughout the class, teachers prompt the dancers to visit more unfamiliar places and ways of moving as well, unlocking the endlessness of possibilities. Dancers are guided to connect their effort to pleasure and to discover the virtue of silliness.
