DAVID ROUSSÈVE

David Roussève has written, directed, and choreographed 14 full-evening works for David Roussève/REALITY, including three commissions for the Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Roussève’s writing has been published in collections by Bantam Press and Routledge Press. His awards include a New York Dance and Performance Award (“Bessie”), three Los Angeles Horton Awards, the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts of Dance, seven consecutive National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Association of Black Princeton Alumni, two Irvine Fellowships in Dance, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Creative Capital award. David has served on the faculty of Princeton University, Columbia College summer program, and Randolph-Macon College. In 1996, he joined UCLA’s Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance, where he is Distinguished Professor of Choreography and former Department Chair. 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).