Abdul Latif – D2D/T

2019-20 | Baruch College

Launched in 2013, Abdul Latif – D2D/T is a New York based urban-contemporary dance company dedicated to the creation of original works by Abdul Latif and nurturing the careers of young artists, while stimulating the imagination of diverse audiences through collaborative partnerships. Latif’s hybrid work embodies a ferocious intricacy and fearless physicality, tracing a movement etymology that connects multi-armed Hindu god modality and theorizations on da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man with port de bras of Classical Ballet and House Vogueing influences.

Latif’s breakout work was a commission as part of the 2015 Joffrey Ballet/Winning Works Concerts. An inaugural Lincoln Center Education Artist-in-Residence at Lincoln Center Institute, Latif was also awarded a Rockefeller Brothers Fund Fellowship in 2016. Following his Lincoln Center Institute residency, Latif received the Chicago Winning Works Prize and the National Capezio ACE Finalist Award. Latif premiered his 2015 commission, A Year From Now Ago, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, in concert with his full-length work, 20/20. In 2017, MATCH[ed]–Latif’s first choreography and visual arts installation–premiered at the Fire Island Dance Festival. In 2018, The Joyce Theater commissioned Latif to create Alas~ for the Ashley Bouder Project, performed by dancers of New York City Ballet.

In 2019-2020, via a Fellowship at NYC’s Center for Ballet and the Arts, the company will continue developing Latif’s adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull into a full-length contemporary dance theater musical.