David Roussève

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David Roussève '81, a choreographer, writer, director and performer, is a magna cum laude graduate of Princeton and a Guggenheim Fellow. His dance/theater company REALITY has performed throughout the UK, Europe, South America, and the U.S including three commissions for the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival. Commissions include Houston Ballet, Ballet Hispanico, Cleo Parker Robinson, Dancing Wheels, Atlanta Ballet, and Ilkhom Theater Co. of Tashkent, Uzbekistan. In 2017 David choreographed Kurt Weil’s Lost in the Stars for director Anne Bogart, SITI company, and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. His evening-length REALITY work Halfway to Dawn: The Billy Strayhorn Project premiered in 2018 at REDCAT in Los Angeles and is currently touring internationally. David has created three short films, the most recent screening at festivals in 11 countries and receiving 10 awards including four for Best Film. Other awards include a “Bessie” Award, Creative Capital Fellowship, three Horton Awards, CalArts/Alpert Award in Dance, and seven consecutive NEA fellowships. Roussève was published in collections by Bantam Press and Rutledge Press, was twice a Fellow in the Sundance Institute’s Screenwriter Lab, and just completed Twit, a feature screenplay based on his 2014 dance/theater work Stardust. At UCLA, Roussève is Professor of Choreography in the department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance. For the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture, he has served as Associate Dean (2014-15), Acting Dean (2015), and Interim Dean (2015-17).