David Thomson
David Thomson is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice borders on choreographic situations and installations centered around questions of identity, unconscious narratives, and the expression of presence and absence as performative states.
He has been supported or presented by The Kitchen, Movement Research at Judson Church, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, BRIC Arts, Performance Space NY, The Invisible Dog, Mt Tremper Arts, The Yard and Danspace Project, among other institutions.
His work has been recognized with awards and fellowships including a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Artist Award (2022), Robert Rauschenberg Residency (2018), Yaddo (2016), MacDowell (2014), a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Choreography (2013), and the US Artists Ford Fellowship (2012).
Thomson has worked across the fields of music, dance, film, theater, and performance with Bebe Miller, Trisha Brown, Ralph Lemon, Tracie Morris, Marina Abramović, Meg Stuart, Grisha Coleman|Hot Mouth, Yvonne Rainer, Sekou Sundiata, Maria Hassabi, Yanira Castro, and Okwui Okpokwasili, among others.
He has served on the faculties of Movement Research, NYU, Sarah Lawrence, The New School, Barnard, Bennington, Pratt and Middlebury. In 2017, he and Kate Watson-Wallace initiated The Sustainability Project, which serves as a platform for expanding the discourse surrounding financial, artistic, and personal empowerment within the arts community.
Thomson received an interdisciplinary B.A. from State University of New York at Purchase.