Dances For A Variable Population (DVP) brings dance to your community and brings your community into the concert hall.  

Through fun, lively, and beautifully executed choreography, we make inclusive dance that engages communities as participants and audience members. 

DVP shares dance for wellness, for  expression, and for human interaction.

 

We inspire, we celebrate, we collaborate. 

NAOMI GOLDBERG HAAS is a dancer, master teacher, choreographer and director of DVP.  She is the creator of Variable Pop Expressive Dance Fitness Method and Movement Speaks - a Community Collaborative Dance Program. 

VIDEO Clip for Family Matinee/Joyce Theater

VIDEO CLIP from Washington Square Dances

For the past twenty years, I have been investigating new movement vocabularies for contemporary dance. I’ve worked with a wide array of populations new to dance, from children, street performers, and athletes, to artists with disabilities. Most recently, I have been working with senior populations, mixing this community with young modern dancers, exploring how these disparate groups can learn from one another about the nature of movement and expression. This has led me to realize that those with limited movement ability can often find maximal expression in the movements they are capable of creating. Limitations in the physicality of these older dancers have expanded my own choreographic vocabulary.” 

Naomi Goldberg Haas

January 2012 Movement Speaks workshops

at three Senior Centers in Manhattan

Goddard Riverside Senior Center

Citizens Care Senior Program

Project Find Woodstock Senior Center

Photos Alan Laming, Meg Goldman, Don Mount

Video Judy Leiff, Don Mount, Minos Papas/Cyprian Films