Della
Davidson
Choreography
Della Davidson has been Artistic Director of the Della Davidson Dance Theatre for over 20 years, and is the creator of some 40 choreographic and theatrical works. Currently she is a Professor at UC Davis in the Department of Theatre and Dance as well as Artistic Director of Sideshow Physical Theatre, the resident professional company of the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts and the Department of Theatre and Dance.
In November 2002, Sideshow Physical Theatre premiered at the Mondavi Center in the critically acclaimed The Ten P.M. Dream. This work was named best modern dance performance in the Sacramento Area for 2002. Sideshow Physical Theatre is dedicated to the exploration of new performance forms through interdisciplinary work in the pursuit of artistic ideas that address issues of the human condition.
Professor Davidson is a choreographer, theatre artist and teacher who creates interdisciplinary works that explore the presence of women and the lyrical power of dance and storytelling. In 2007-2008 Davidson premiered two new works Collapse (suddenly falling down) with Sideshow Physical Theatre and The Weight of Memory a new mediated work on Repertory Dance Theatre in Salt Lake City in collaboration with video artist Ellen Bromberg. In August, Ms.Davidson was the stage director for a new opera by Lesley Dill and Richard Marriott entitled Divide Light that premiered at the Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga, CA.
In 2003 Professor Davidson was named a Chancellor’s Fellow at UC Davis, which included a $25,000 award, in recognition for Excellence in Professional Achievement. She was also awarded a Rockefeller MAP Fund Grant to collaborate with John Flax and Theater Grottesco of Santa Fe, NM on A Dream Inside Another, a dance/theatre work exploring magical realism. A Dream Inside Another premiered at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts in May 2005 and at the Armory for the Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico in August 2005 and was invited to be part of the National Ensemble Theatre Festival in Blue Lake, California in June.
Professor Davidson's work includes Tongues (1988) and Angels and Clay (1988), for which she received an Isadora Duncan Award for Outstanding Achievement in Choreography as well as a Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation New Choreography Award. PINK/HOUSE (1994) was produced as part of the Springloaded Dance Festival at the Place Theatre in London, England and was featured on the cover of the Spring '95 issue of Dance Theatre Journal. Professor Davidson is the recipient of the 1990 North American Award for Choreography, a Meet the Composer Grant, and consistent support from the National Endowment of the Arts
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