David Dorfman Dance: The Front Line

Preview Performance: World Premiere at the 2027 American Dance Festival Dorfman's newest dance-theater work, The Front Line, examines American democracy through the voting process lens. Set in a middle school gymnasium turned polling site for an imagined Election Day 2040, the movement, song and words of the poll workers—aka the front line—interact with those of community cast members playing the role of voters/campaigners and potential onstage chorus, to explore and unravel the act of voting and the aspiration, dreaming, anger, disappointment, frustration and hope behind each vote—combining sober reflection with joyous celebration about what it means to participate in America.