Deborah Slater Dance Theater

A multi-media Izzie Award-winning dance company, Deborah Slater Dance Theater (DSDT) creates devised, visually gorgeous, acrobatic, talking dance.  Celebrating its 25th Anniversary in 2014, DSDT is dedicated to the creation of all-original performances exploring timely social issues and creating meaningful paths through life’s experience. Using dance, education and outreach to the community, DSDT has created more than 22 original evenings, as well as smaller pieces, reaching over 20,000 people both locally and nationally. In 2015, Ms. Slater was awarded the Della Davidson Prize for Innovations in Dance Theater and in 2016, a Special Achievement Izzie for DSDT’s 25th Anniversary Season and the show PRIVATE LIFE, as well as a second Izzie for their Visual Design team.  Ms. Slater’s work has been described as “…quietly atmospheric and rambunctiously explosive…full-bodied and visceral,” (Bay Guardian); and an “expression of the deepest subconscious.” (SF Weekly).