Deborah Abel has produced, choreographed, and danced in concerts of her own choreography since 1987. She was awarded the 2010 Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship in Choreography. She was a finalist in the 1988 Massachusetts Artist Foundation Fellowship Program in Choreography. Her piece, Night Song/Cool of the Day,First Light (1988), Going Home (1989), and The Play of Consciousness (1990). In 1991, she produced an evening length work, The Perfect Relationship: A Dance Concert of Duets, in Boston and at the Merce Cunningham Studio in New York. With a grant from the M.I.T. Council for the Arts, she premiered an evening length work, The Beauty Road: A Dance of Community, with guest artist singer/songwriter Carla Sciaky, at Kresge Auditorium, M.I.T., in 1992. In 1993 she performed repertory at Connecticut College in A Tribute to Martha Myers. In 1994, the Deborah Abel Dance Company presented and performed in Common Heart: A Benefit Concert for Christine O’Shea with the help of friends and other performers including singer Carol Maillard of Sweet Honey in the Rock and choreographer/dancer Dianne McIntyre. In 1996, at M.I.T.’s Kresge Auditorium, Abel premiered Eye of the Heart, an evening-length work featuring dancers, singers, musicians, and a collaboration with visual artist Pamela Shanley.
She was selected by a panel of judges to appear in the concert Boston Moves Downtown (1988) at the New England Life Hall. She choreographed and produced the concerts After being ‘on leave’ for a few years to devote herself to being a parent (and running her school), she returned in 2007 to her choreography with her concert The World is Breathing, which was produced at Kresge Auditorium, M.I.T., with a grants from the M.I.T. Council for the Arts and the M.I.T. Experimental Study Group. In 2008 she presented The Perfect Relationship, danced with Jeffrey Polston. In 2009 she presented the re-choreographed concert The Beauty Road, with 7 dancers and 8 musicians at the Tsai Performance Center.
Abel and resident composer Lee Perlman have also created and presented the Unraveling to the Source movement workshops, which have been presented by Rowe Camp and Conference Center, Spring Hill of Ashby, and The Jubilee Center. The workshops include Lovedancing: A Couples Movement Workshop and Creative Dance as Divine Worship. Deborah Abel received a B.A. in Dance from Connecticut College and a Certificate of Dance from the Laban School in London, England. In the 1980’s she established a school of modern dance which continues to flourish.
She was selected by a panel of judges to appear in the concert Boston Moves Downtown (1988) at the New England Life Hall. She choreographed and produced the concerts After being ‘on leave’ for a few years to devote herself to being a parent (and running her school), she returned in 2007 to her choreography with her concert The World is Breathing, which was produced at Kresge Auditorium, M.I.T., with a grants from the M.I.T. Council for the Arts and the M.I.T. Experimental Study Group. In 2008 she presented The Perfect Relationship, danced with Jeffrey Polston. In 2009 she presented the re-choreographed concert The Beauty Road, with 7 dancers and 8 musicians at the Tsai Performance Center.
Abel and resident composer Lee Perlman have also created and presented the Unraveling to the Source movement workshops, which have been presented by Rowe Camp and Conference Center, Spring Hill of Ashby, and The Jubilee Center. The workshops include Lovedancing: A Couples Movement Workshop and Creative Dance as Divine Worship. Deborah Abel received a B.A. in Dance from Connecticut College and a Certificate of Dance from the Laban School in London, England. In the 1980’s she established a school of modern dance which continues to flourish.