Danielle Davidson is a performing artist and movement designer, working in contemporary dance theater. She has worked as an arts administrator, coordinator, consultant, curator, performer and producer in the performing arts industry for the past 25 years.From 2001-2014, in Canada, she was employed as a dancer, choreographer, rehearsal assistant, and dance teacher with companies such as Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, Ballet Ouest, Opera Ontario, Banff Festival Company, Ballet Espressivo, AmpleMan Danse, and L'Ecole Superieure de Ballet du Quebec.From 2014 - to 2020 she lived and worked in the USA (Boston, MA and Providence, RI) balancing numerous contracts/roles as administrative coordinator, co-artistic /executive director, artistic producer, dance professor, dancer, choreographer, and rehearsal director with numerous companies, NPO's, cultural centers, such as AS220, The Boston Conservatory at Berklee, Prometheus Dance Company, HDC Dance Ensemble, Doppelganger Dance Collective, Providence College, and Festival Ballet Providence,She has a wide range of extensive experience in the performing arts industry, having worked from both angles (performer/creator and administrator/producer). She has experience building and fostering partnerships between presenting venues, artists, designers, stakeholders, and granting agencies, and has attended to every aspect of project planning: fundraising/grant writing, artist-venue liaison communications, venue staff management, scheduling and contracting artists and venues, residency and production management, touring (national and international), promotion and marketing of concerts, events, classes, gallery viewings, curating dance/theater concerts, as well as managing the technical staff and production designers’ schedules, contracts and payment.As Artistic/Executive Director of Doppelgänger Dance Collective and HDC Dance Ensemble, she has over seven years of experience creating and maintaining plans and timelines that align with funding proposals, residency schedules, and performance opportunities, including international touring. The dance/performance collectives under her co-direction have received over a dozen residencies throughout the USA in the past six years, they have received six grants from The Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, two grants from the New England Foundation for the Arts and two grants from the Creative Arts Council at Brown University, and she has produced five evening-length dance and live-music concerts.She is also an improviser at Montreal Improv, and a 500hour RYT.
Listed skills include Contemporary Dance, Choreography, Dance, Ballet, and 8 others.
