David Roussève
Awards Jury Captain, 2018 - 2023
Board Member, 2018-2022
David Roussève, a choreographer/writer/director/performer, is a magna cum laude grad of Princeton University and a Guggenheim Fellow. His dance/theater company REALITY has performed throughout the UK, Europe, South America, and the U.S., including three commissions for the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival. Roussève has created 17 commissions for other companies and three short films, the most recent short screened at festivals in eleven countries and received ten awards including four for “Best Film.” Roussève has been published in collections by Bantam Press and Rutledge Press, and was twice a Fellow in the Sundance Institute’s Screenwriter Lab. Roussève just completed Twit, a feature screenplay based on his 2014 dance/theater work Stardust. In 2017, Twit was a finalist in two “Best Screenplay” categories at the Nashville Film Festival and a semi-finalist for the Los Angles Outfest Screenwriter’s Lab. Among other’s, Roussève’s awards include a Bessie (New York Dance and Performance) Award, three Horton Awards, the CalArts/Herb Alpert Award in Dance, a Creative Capital Fellowship and seven consecutive NEA fellowships. At UCLA, Roussève is Professor of Choreography in the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance. For the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture he has served as Associate Dean (2014-15), Acting Dean (2015), and Interim Dean (2015-17).