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David Michalek is a New York-based artist working within various media to create works that are based in portraiture. After a career in the1990s as a commercial photographer for publications from The New Yorker to Vogue, Michalek turned to an artistic practice incorporating photography, video, performance, and projection, frequently in collaboration with performing artists. Projects include "Portraits in Dramatic Time" (2011) presented at the Lincoln Center Festival; and "14 Stations" (2002--2008) a multi-media project encompassing photography, projections, spoken word, testimony and conversation shown at the Brooklyn Museum and Yale Divinity School. He created a film of projected stills for Peter Sellar's staging of "Kafka Fragments" which debuted at Carnegie Hall in 2005; the LA Phil presented the production in 2008 at Walt Disney Hall. Michalek's work has been exhibited at The Kitchen, New York, Brooklyn Museum, Harvard University, Sadler's Wells, Trafalgar Square, Opera Bastille, Venice Biennale, Yale University, Lincoln Center, and at the Edinburgh Festival at Summerhall with the Richard DeMarco Foundation. He is a visiting faculty member at Yale Divinity School, where he lectures on religion and the arts.

"Slow Dancing", which has transfixed viewers in such varied locations as Harvard University, Lincoln Center, Opera Bastille in Paris, and Trafalgar Square in London will be projected on the façade of Bridges Auditorium at Â鶹ӰÊÓ every evening from September 26 through October 5, 2013.