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Dance Theater Workshop at 219 West 19th Street in 2010, before MERGING WITH THE BILL T. JONES/ARNIE ZANE COMPANY; THE MERGED ORGANIZATION WAS NAMED New York Live Arts (FIND REFERNCE)

Dance Theater Workshop, colloquially known as DTW, was a New York City performance space and service organization for dance companies that operated from 1965 to 2011. Located as 219 West 19th Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, DTW was founded in 1965 by Jeff Duncan, Art Bauman and Jack Moore as a choreographers' collective. In 2002 DTW opened its new Doris Duke Performance Center (?? THIS WAS THE NAME?), which contains the 192-seat Bessie Schönberg Theatre. (FIND REFERENCE FOR THEIR GOALS -

From 1975-2003, DTW was led by David R. White, Executive Director and Producer. Under White's leadership, DTW became one of the most influential contemporary performing arts centers and artist incubators in the United States and abroad, responsible for identifying and nurturing some of the most important dance and other performing artists of our time, including: Bill T. Jones, Mark Morris, Susan Marshall, Whoopi Goldberg, Bill Irwin, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, Annie-B Parson and Paul Lazar, Donald Byrd and John Jasperse, among many others. ADD FRESH TRACKS - YEARS AND ARTIST SAMPLES AND PURPOSE. NYTIMES REFERENCES

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In 2011, DTW merged with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company to become New York Live Arts The move was prompted by a need for financial security, with the dance company coming in as the more financially secure organization of the two – DTW took on a considerable amount of debt in building its new facility.

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 * 1Scope
 * 2Artists
 * 3Funding
 * 4See also
 * 5References
 * 6External links