David Ferguson is a writer, painter, and producer of dance and film. As a Founding Artistic co-Director of Suddenly Dance Theatre (1992-present) in Victoria, B.C. he has been a producer/curator of numerous collaborative, multi-media projects and dance productions, including the annual Romp! Festival (20x). In 2005, he co-founded Suddenly Media Productions to develop, create, produce, and distribute new media works made for public art gallery, stage, print, broadcast television and feature film. His original works include OPIUM (2005), a made-for-television dance film seen nationally on Canadian Television; NATURE ECSTASY (2007), a silent dance film made for composers; and the Bravo!FACT films AISLING – We Saw A Vision (2007) and GUTHRIE SWIMS THE LAKE (2010). As a writer, supported by The Belfry Theatre’s INCUBATOR/ SPARK! Festival, he premiered his stage play AGNES B (2010). In 2013, he returned to the Belfry to workshop his next play SUGARGLASS. He regularly co-choreographs and performs with dance artist Jung ah Chung, with live appearances in South Korea at The World Dance Stars Festival, Busan International Dance Festival, the Next Wave Dance Festival, the 17th Daegu International Festival of Dance. In summer 2012, the duo premiered their work RUSH OF WATER / RUSH OF AIR, an outdoor dance-film installation in Victoria’s Centennial Square. They followed up with OPHELIA (2014) a dance film projection for an outdoor vertical garden. In 2016, David was awarded Dance Victoria’s Chrystal Prize for an international collaboration WE ARE DIAMONDS which continues to evolve. In 2017, David is launched WITS IN MOTION - a short, youth-engaged dance-film and toolkit for the prevention of peer victimization and bullying co-directed with Miles Lowry. In September 2017, David was commissioned by the Belfry Theatre to create IN A NUTSHELL a new play starring Lynda Raino.
