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David Fernandez Choreographer/DIrector based in New York.
His most acclaimed choreography, entitled “Five Variations on a Theme,” was created for New York City Ballet's principal dancer Joaquin De Luz. The work was performed as part of the "Kings of the Dance" program, premiering in the Ukraine in November 2008. David's other choreographies have been created for leading dancers from the American Ballet Theatre and the New York City Ballet.
Other commissions include Dance Theatre of Harlem Ensemble, Youth America Grand Prix, Opera North, Staten Island Ballet, New Jersey Ballet, Sacramento Ballet, Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet-ChoreoPlan ,
National Choreographers Initiative, E-moves at the Harlem Stage Gatehouse, the Joffrey Ballet School in New York, and the Vassar Repertoire Dance Theatre.

During David’s dance career, he performed with Chicago’s Boitsov Classical Ballet, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Ballet Theatre of Chicago, and in Indiana University’s production of "Don Quixote,” directed by Susan Jones of the American Ballet Theatre. David also had the honor of performing alongside Mikhail Baryshnikov in “The Doctor and The Patient” at the 2004 Lincoln Center Festival.

Dance Films
In 2011, David directed and choreographed the short film “White Shirt, Black Tie, Black Pants XXS," which premiered at the Dance on Camera Film Festival at Lincoln Center in 2012. His previous dance films include “Objects in Mirror are Closer Than They Appear” (2007) and “Icarus APR” (2009).

His choreography "Under and Around" for Florrie Geller helped her win the first "Gillian Murphy Endowed Scholarship" at the Youth America Grand Prix in 2014. “Bach Cantatas”, Music Live Chorus and Organ at Saint Peter’s Church in Manhattan is premiered in 2014.

Some Dance Company - Encore! David Fernandez, choreographer, and New York City Ballet principal dancer Ask La Cour, team together to produce this event in benefit to Career Transition for Dancers.
Cello Pointe project commissioned choreography for two dancers to be premier in Phoenix, Arizona in 2015
In April 2015 Liam Boswell wins the gold medal at the Youth America Grand Prix 2015 with David's choreography "La Primavera"

In recent news David will be choreographing Lloyd Knight, principal dancer of Martha Graham Dance Company, and Ask La Cour, principal dancer at New York City Ballet, for his original series "New York Duets". He did a residence as a choreographer at Hamilton college in Clinton New York and in Seattle will be creating a new work for ARC Dance Company

When David isn’t choreographing or searching for new music and sources of inspiration, he teaches and experiments with new movements at the Central Park Dance studios, the Long Island Ballet Theatre School at the Huntington Center for the Arts, at Westport's Academy of Ballet in Connecticut. He is happy to create new works at the Ballet Hispanico School of Dance to the Pre-Professional Repertory class, and to be the Ballet Master at Brooklyn Ballet. David spends his summers teaching intensives at several ballet and contemporary companies in the United States, Mexico, Italy and New Zealand.