Creative Capital

David Neumann

Choreographer and performer David Neumann is the artistic director of Advanced Beginner Group. The company’s work has been presented in New York at P.S. 122, Dance Theater Workshop, Central Park SummerStage, and Symphony Space, among others, and has toured to the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Alverno Presents in Milwaukee, and MASS MoCA in North Adams. Neumann was a member of Doug Varone and Dancers and an eight-year original member and collaborator with the Doug Elkins Dance Company. He continues to perform and choreograph for theater, opera, and film, with such directors as JoAnn Akalaitis, Laurie Anderson, Jonathan Demme, and Peter Sellars. He is a professor of theater at Sarah Lawrence College and a guest lecturer at both Barnard College and the Yale School of Drama.