Choreographer Daniel Wilkins, a graduate of School of American Ballet, founded DASSdance (formerly danielandsomesuperfriends) in 1996 after seeing a need for daring and innovative movement in the dance community. His own career included performing with Donald Byrd, Suzanne Farrell, Complexions, and Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre--a strong basis for creating his own style, called All-Terrain Dance.
All-Terrain Dance is a dynamic and visceral style that juxtaposes a variety of techniques, like modern, ballet, break-dancing, hip-hop, yoga, acrobatics, and martial arts, with diverse cultural elements from India, Europe, Urban America, and East Asia. The fluidity and attack that signals the intermixing of these vocabularies allows DASS to tackle movement with a comprehensive realism and intensity.
In collaboration with renowned visual artists, lighting designers, costume designers, and sound artists, Daniel's vision is the return of a Diaghilev-era renaissance in which artists and dancers combine to create multi-media performance spectaculars, showcasing some the most athletic, sexy dancers on the stage today.
Full Length Works
2009 Fighting Water
premiered at Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center (Seattle, WA)
2007 Poor Man's Boogie
premiered at Edmonds Center for the Arts (Edmonds, WA)
2006 Out of the Dust
premiered at DvF - The Theater (NYC)
2004 Religilistic
premiered at Edmonds Center for the Arts (Seattle) and DvF - The Theater (NYC)
performances at The Bagley Wright Theater (Seattle) and Seattle Center (Seattle)
2002 forward
premiered at DvF - The Theater (NYC)
2001 Love Forever Now
premiered at DvF - The Theater (NYC)
2000-1 Haunted House
previewed at Joyce Soho (NYC); premiered at DvF - The Theater (NYC)
1996 Zoom Floral Running Space
premiered at The Theater for the New City (NYC)
Festivals
2004 DanceNow (NYC)
2006 MOVE! (Tacoma)
2006 On the boards 12minMax (Seattle)
2006 D.U.M.B.O. Dance Festival (NYC)
2007 Lynnwood Multicultural Family Festival (Lynnwood, WA)
2007 Seattle Center's Winterfest (Seattle)
