David Sheingold has worked in the arts field for over 20 years. He served as Dance Theater Workshop’s Senior Producer, co-founded ArtsPool, and has consulted with arts organizations across the US including 651 ARTS, Miami Light Project, ODC Theater, Pew Charitable Trust, Queer|Art, and Vermont Performance Lab, among others. A critical through line of his work has been focused on coaching artists. This begins with understanding what animates artists’ desire to create alongside how they make and share their work. From that grounding, he co-creates pathways to realize the wants and needs of artists’ practice, helping to seed possibility and agency. He brings compassion, deep curiosity, and challenge to his coaching practice, opening up space to balance the often-isolating dynamics of art making with frank, strategic partnership.

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Likes to talk to artists about: Endless. One that comes to mind is the choices artists are constantly making as they develop their work. I was sitting in on a run through for a work that was about to premiere. The director stopped the action mid-stream, went up to one of the performers and asked them to move one of their hands that was resting in their lap an inch to the right. I immediately wanted to know everything about that choice. The piece itself produced a sensation of chaos and complete abandon; the choices were hyper intentional.

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