James Clotfelter

The Duke Dance Program MFA in Dance: Embodied Interdisciplinary Praxis (MFAEIP) presented a six-week movement and creative practice intensive designed to support the artistic evolution of Duke graduate dance students and alumni. Participating artists received dedicated time, space and mentorship from a range of interdisciplinary guest artists.

Participants engaged in movement classes, workshops on creative strategies and critical response to works in progress, and built their existing networks through collaboration with the artists and faculty of partnering organization, the American Dance Festival (ADF).

Workshop: Strategies for Production Design
This four-day intensive examines the role of design in live performance and aims to cultivate an expansive vision of the relationships between environment, design, and evolving projects.

James Clotfelter is committed to the creation of collaborative and socially conscious work for live performance, the built environment, and public space. Working broadly as a designer with a specialization in light, James runs an architectural lighting design practice, JCLD, and is the co-founder of Studio C Projects, a performance-based, collaborative research studio that investigates the intersections of movement, design, and architecture. His work in live performance has been presented throughout the US and internationally in a myriad of venues ranging from the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Cairo Opera House to an abandoned utility warehouse in Poland and the rural Pennsylvania forest. James has a double MFA in Transdisciplinary Design and Lighting Design from Parsons School of Design in NYC.