David Fernandez

David Fernandez is a choreographer, dancer, and ballet teacher based in New York. His most acclaimed choreography, entitled "Five Variations on a Theme," was created for New York City Ballet's principal dancer Joaquin De Luz. The work was performed as part of the "Kings of the Dance" program, premiering in the Ukraine in November 2008. David's other choreographies have been created for leading dancers from the American Ballet Theatre and the New York City Ballet. Other commissions include the Kings of the Dance Tour, Dance Theatre of Harlem Ensemble, Youth America Grand Prix, Opera North, Staten Island Ballet, and the Vassar Repertoire Dance Theatre. In 2011, David directed and choreographed the short film "White Shirt, Black Tie, Black Pants XXS," which premiered at the Dance on Camera Film Festival at Lincoln Center in 2012. His previous films include "Objects in Mirror are Closer Than They Appear" (2009) and "Icarus APR" (2009). In February 2012, David announced that his own Some Dance Company would work together with the Career Transition For Dancers Project in a festival collaboration. During David's dance career, he performed with Chicago's Boitsov Classical Ballet, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Ballet Theatre of Chicago, and in Indiana University's production of "Don Quixote," directed by Susan Jones of the American Ballet Theatre. David also had the honor of performing alongside Mikhail Baryshnikov in "The Doctor and The Patient" at the 2004 Lincoln Center Festival. When David isn't choreographing or searching for new music and sources of inspiration, he teaches and experiments with new movements at the Central Park Dance studios in New York and at Westport's Academy of Ballet in Connecticut. David spends his summers teaching intensives at several ballet and contemporary companies in both the United States and Mexico.