Lester David

Lester David is a multi-award winner artist (choreography, theatre), music producer, artistic and creative director, coming from Caracas, Venezuela. He graduated from UNEARTE (National Experimental University of Arts), in Caracas, and from SNDO (School for New Dance Development) in Amsterdam. His work explores how art can serve as a healing medium and a space for expanding collective consciousness.

David has been nominated for the BNG Bank Theaterprijs 2019, the largest theatre award held in The Netherlands and won the Nieuwe Makers Regeling 2019, a mayor development grant by Fonds Podiumkunsten that supports young artists' in Holland. He’s won four prestigious awards as theatre maker in Germany, Belgium and Holland: Publikumpreis (Audience Award) at Radikal Jung Festival 2019 in Münich at the Münchner Volsktheater, Operadagen Festival Rotterdam 2018 (as young maker with significant contribution to the world of music theatre), Theater Aan Zee Festival 2017 in Oostende (as original young maker, play and song writer), and the Audience Award at the Moving Forward Festival 2016 in Amsterdam.

He has taught at the SNDO and ECD (Extended Contemporary Dance) at the Academie voor Theater en Dans (AHK) as a guest teacher, and also in prestigious institutions like the Icelandic Dance Company, National Venezuelan Dance company, TSEKH: Contemporary Dance Centre in Moscow, Royal Conservatoire in Antwerp, and Studio 303 in Montreal.