EDUCATION/ TEACHER BIOS

Cecily Campbell

Cecily Campbell is from Santa Fe, New Mexico and holds a BFA in dance from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She was a company member of Shen Wei Dance Arts from 2008 to 2013 and began working with the Trisha Brown Dance Company in 2012. Since joining the company she has performed repertory spanning the full time line of Trisha Brown's 40 year history and has taught master classes and workshops internationally in technique, repertory, improvisation and composition. Re-staging projects for the company include Set and Reset/Reset at the Venice Biennale College Danza, Newark and Foray Forêt on the Lyon Opera Ballet, and Solo Olos on A.I.M.

Marc Crousillat

Marc Crousillat has performed in the works of Merce Cunningham, Tere O’Connor, Netta Yerushalmy, and the Trisha Brown Dance Company (2014-2022), among others. He made his Broadway debut in the Ivo van Hove and Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker reimagining of West Side Story (2020). He has been listed as one of Dance Magazine’s 25 to Watch, is a recipient of a Princess Grace Award for Excellence in Dance and a 2021 New York Dance & Performance / Bessie Award nomination for Outstanding Performer in the revival of Trisha Brown’s Watermotor. Marc has taught extensively and restaged works by Trisha Brown and Netta Yerushalmy for Rambert Ballet, La Biennale di Venezia, New York University, and The University of the Arts among others. He recently made his acting debut at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival in Leaf Lieber's Burrow and is currently developing his first feature-length screenplay.

Kimberly Fulmer

Kimberly Fulmer holds a BFA in Contemporary Dance from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. She has had the opportunity to perform as a guest artist with Bruce Wood Dance Project (Dallas, TX) and Malashock Dance (San Diego, CA). During the summer of 2014, she was an apprentice in Taiwan with Dance Forum Taipei. In addition, she has performed works by Merce Cunningham, Jose Limon, Juel D. Lane, and more. Kimberly became a member of the Trisha Brown Dance Company in Spring 2017. Since joining the company, she has had the joy and honor of performing a wide range of repertory spanning Trisha Brown’s 40-year choreographic history. Kimberly’s time with the company has also included teaching master classes, workshops, and re-staging O złożony, O composite on the Stanislavsky Ballet in Moscow, Russia alongside TBDC alumni Todd Stone. Beginning Summer 2021, Kimberly will begin earning a MFA in dance through the University of Utah.

Kathleen Fisher

Kathleen Fisher is a dancer, teacher, improvisor, and bodyworker.  As a member of Trisha Brown Company from 1992 - 2002, she was an original cast member in six choreographies and performed extensive repertory including Brown's solos, Accumulation and If you couldn't see me. Her ongoing study and performance includes projects with Bebe Miller Company and Jane Comfort and Company as well as forays into theater, film, somatics and the healing arts. She is a Certified Yoga Teacher, Licensed Massage Therapist and Certified Craniosacral Therapist. She is now based in Bimini, Bahamas where she observes and joins the amazing dance of the resident wild spotted dolphins.  Current lines of inquiry include movement and apnea, exploring dance in the fluid medium, and exploring movement as communication with other species, specifically untrained free wild marine species. She has taught TBDC classes and workshops and led lecture-demonstrations for professional and aspiring dancers, children, and educators around the world. She has led re-imaginings and setting of Trisha Brown Company repertory with dancers from PARTS, CNSMD de Paris, CNSMD de Lyon, CNDC Angers, and EnKnap Group.     

Lance Gries

Lance Gries was a member of the Trisha Brown Dance Company from 1985-1992. His work with that company has been honored with a New York Dance and Performance "Bessie" Award and a Princess Grace Foundation Award. Since 1990, he has created and presented solo and group choreography in various venues in New York City such as the Kitchen, Danspace, La MaMa Experimental Theater, and The State Theater, as well as cities throughout Europe. His solo evening, Etudes for an Astronaut was nominated for a 2011 New York and Performance "Bessie" award for best dance production. He is the recipient of a 2014 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Fellowship in support of, IF Immanent Field and was a 2017 resident of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. Mr. Gries is a renowned teacher, having taught workshops and master classes throughout the world. In 1994 he was a "founding teacher" of PARTS in Brussels, Belgium and continues there as a visiting teacher. Lance's pedagogical approach is featured in a book on methodology published by Tanzplan Deutschland under the title of "Aspects of Release and Alignment Oriented Techniques."

Sandra Grinberg

Sandra Grinberg began her dance education in National School of Ballet in Gdansk, Poland. Upon graduation she moved to Belgium to study at P.A.R.T.S in Bruxelles. In 2000 she traveled to New York and was lucky to join Trisha Brown Dance Company, where she performed and taught domestically and internationally for years. In 2008 she left the company to become a mother, and has continued dancing in her living room with her son.

Iréne Hultman

Iréne Hultman was born in Sweden and is based in New York City. From 1983-1988, Hultman was a member of the Trisha Brown Dance Company where she also worked as Rehearsal Director from 2006-2009. In this role, she installed Trisha Brown's Early Works at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Centre George Pompidou, and Les Toullieries to name a few. She was the Artistic Director of Iréne Hultman Dance from 1988 - 2001. Her company received national and international recognition and premiered work at The Joyce Theater with Black Tie Optional (2001) Nordic Love Act 2 (1998) and Cascade (1996) and at Danspace Project in NYC, Love Betrayal and a Bowling Trophy (2000), Tango-Babe (1995), Red Cap (1992). She choreographed seven opera productions including Mozart's Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute for Drottningholm's Palace Theater in Stockholm and new operas like Sport och Fritid at The Royal Swedish Opera. Her commissions have included Firebird for Gothenburg Opera Ballet and I find comfort for Pina Bausch Company 2 (FTS). Hultman is the co-founder of Järna-Brooklyn, a Swedish-American cultural entity that encourages artistic experimentation and a founding member of the multi-media collective Fire Work in Stockholm. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in Choreography and a Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts Award and support from The Jerome Foundation, the Harkness Foundation for Dance, the American Scandinavian Foundation and Meet the Composer. In 2010, she curated Movement within Stream, the first dance event to ever be performed at Storm King Art Center. Ms. Hultman continues to foster her interests in research and collaborations between artistic fields and across continents. She serves on The Bessie Committee and the Danspace Project's Artist Advisory Board.

Leah Ives

Leah Ives received a BFA from the University of Michigan. She joined the Trisha Brown Dance Company in 2014 and has since had the privilege to perform and teach a total of 20 pieces of Brown’s repertory. Leah has also had the pleasure of working on projects with Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Thierry De May, The A.O. Movement Collective, Elizabeth Dishman, Kim Brandt, The Leopold Group, the Peter Sparling Dance Company, and The Median Movement, as seen in Francis Ha (Dir. Noah Baumbach). Recent teaching projects have included P.A.R.T.S, Purchase College, the Venice Biennale Collage Danza, and Manhattanville College.

Laurel Jenkins

Laurel Jenkins is a choreographer, dancer, and teacher. As a member of the Trisha Brown Dance Company from 2007­2012, she developed original roles in Brown's final works and she continues to perform and restage pieces for the company. Jenkins has also danced with Sara Rudner, Liz Lerman, and Vicky Shick. Her work has been presented in Los Angeles by REDCAT, Automata, Highways, the Electric Lodge, the Getty Center, the Hammer, and the Fowler Museum, and in New York by Danspace Project, and by Berlin's Performing Presence Improvisation Festival, and Tokyo's Sezane Art Gallery. She has been commissioned to choreograph for LA Contemporary Dance Company, CSULB, and The Wooden Floor. With the support of the Asian Cultural Council, Jenkins traveled to Phnom Penh, Cambodia this year to work with Chey Chankethya and Amrita Performing Arts. Jenkins recently performed the role of Iseme in Peter Sellars' opera Oedipus Rex and Symphony of Psalms, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen. She received a BA from Sarah Lawrence College, an MFA from UCLA, and is certified in the Skinner Releasing Technique.

www.laureljenkins.com

Eva Karczag

Eva Karczag - Independent dance artist. Since the early 1970s, practices, she teaches, and advocates for explorative methods of dance making. She danced with the Trisha Brown Dance Company from 1979–85, creating original roles in Opal Loop, Son of Gone Fishin' and Set and Reset. Her performance work and her teaching are informed by dance improvisation and mindful body practices that engender trust in the body's innate capacity for ease and efficiency and create integrated openness and buoyant suppleness, characteristic of Trisha Brown’s fluid, easeful style of dancing. A certified teacher of the Alexander Technique, she holds an MFA (Dance Research Fellow) from Bennington College, VT. Her teaching experience spans the range of major colleges, studios and organizations throughout the U.S., Europe and Australia, to private practice and individual  mentoring. Currently she performs solo and collaborative work. Recent performing includes dancing in Stephanie Skura’s structured group improvisation, Surreptitious Preparations for an Impossible Total Act; Elena Demyanenko and Erika Mijlin’s Echo Archive; Elsewhere, a collaborative duet with Daniele Albanese; and Promenade, a series of improvised durational performance/installations with visual artist Chris Crickmay and composer Sylvia Hallett. She performed her original role in Opal Loop at Jacob’s Pillow during their 85th anniversary celebration in August 2017.

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Lisa Kraus

Lisa Kraus’s career has included performing with the Trisha Brown Dance Company (1977-82), choreographing and performing for her own company and as an independent, teaching at universities and arts centers, writing reviews, features and essays on dance for internet and print publication and presenting the work of other artists as Coordinator of the Bryn Mawr College Performing Arts Series. Her restaging of Brown’s Glacial Decoy for Paris Opera Ballet was captured in the film In the Steps of Trisha Brown, which won the Jury Prize at the 2017 International Festival of Films on Art of Montréal. Kraus was an NEA Fellow in Dance Criticism and later co-founded thINKingDANCE, an online dance journal and dance writers training scheme. During her 12 years at Bryn Mawr she developed grant-funded projects and special programming with artists including the Khmer Arts Ensemble, John Jasperse, John Kelly, Meredith Monk, Rennie Harris Puremovement, Susan Rethorst and Ralph Lemon. The project Trisha Brown: In the New Body, was a yearlong festival of the innovative choreographer’s artistry supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, and included a partnership with Pennsylvania Ballet. ear-whispered: works by Tania El Khoury was Kraus’ last and most expansive Bryn Mawr project. She currently lives in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia where she studies Soul Line Dance and works in the community garden.

Diane Madden

Diane Madden attended Hampshire College in Massachusetts before joining the Trisha Brown Dance Company in 1980. Since then, Madden has danced, directed, taught, studied and reconstructed Brown’s work. A much lauded performer, Madden has been described in the New York Times as “one of those dancers who can make magic out of almost any task.” She has originated roles in works including Son of Gone Fishin’ (1981), Brown’s masterwork Set and Reset (1983), for which she was recently honored, along with the full original cast, by Movement Research in 2012, Lateral Pass (1985), Carmen (1986), Newark (Niweweorce) (1987), Astral Convertible (1989) for which she was awarded a New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award, Foray Forêt (1990), Astral Converted (1991), the “running solo” in For M.G.: The Movie (1991), Another Story as in falling(1993), Yet Another Story as in falling (1994), M.O. (1995) set to Bach’s Musical Offering, Twelve Ton Rose (1996), Accumulation with Talking Plus Repertory (1997), Monteverdi’s Orfeo (1998) and the Interlude solos Rage and Ladder in El Trilogy (2000). Madden has served as Brown’s personal assistant and was the rehearsal director from 1984-2000. She continued to teach and direct special projects for the Company before serving again as Rehearsal Director from 2010 until 2013, when she was named Associate Artistic Director. Through the talents of dancers both within the company and from internationally known schools and companies, Madden enjoys keeping Brown’s rich range of choreography alive on stages and alternative sites worldwide. Madden has developed an approach to teaching that weaves anatomically grounded technique with improvisation, composition and performance skills. In addition to her own performance work in collaborative improvisational forms, she is greatly influenced by her study and practice of Aikido with Fuminori Onuma. Madden is honored to be the recipient of two Princess Grace Awards, the first in 1986 and the second for sustained achievement in 1994. In 2019-2020 Madden will occupy a full-time position in Brussels, teaching and mentoring at P.A.R.T.S., as well as assisting Rosas’ Artistic Director Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. She continues her role with the Trisha Brown Dance Company as Artistic Consultant

Mariah Maloney

Mariah Maloney Dance is an organization dedicated to presenting Mariah’s choreography and interdisciplinary collaborations. Originally from Homer, Alaska, Mariah is a NYC/Brockport based dance artist presenting choreography nationally and internationally. Mariah who grew up listening to her mother play live chamber music inside a homesteader log cabin is a former Trisha Brown Dance Company soloist and ensemble dancer (1995-2002) who has re-staged Trisha’s work and taught workshops at universities and dance companies in the United States and abroad. Maloney’s work is described as a clear and charming engagement with formalism in post-modern dance. Mariah has toured throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and South America. The company presents work at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival Inside/Out series, venues in New York City including La MaMa etc, The Kitchen, Danspace Project, Mark Morris Dance Center, mr Open Performance, Gibney Dance and Brooklyn Museum of Art. Recent projects include Marlin Miller Series at Alfred University; NYSCA project Albany Symphony Water Music with Loren Loiacono; Rochester Fringe Festival; Buenos Aires Dance Festival and Danspace Project/Food for Thought. Maloney serves as an Associate Professor and Graduate Director at The Department of Dance, The College at Brockport, SUNY. Mariah earned a BFA from Purchase College and a MFA from Hollins/ADF. Maloney is published in Dance Magazine on Trisha Brown. Maloney is a recent recipient of a Topaz Arts Center residency.

www.mariahmaloneydance.com

Kyle Marshall

Kyle Marshall is a choreographer, performer, teacher and artistic director of Kyle Marshall Choreography (KMC), a dance company that sees the dancing body as a container of history, an igniter of social reform and a site of celebration. Since inception in 2014, KMC has performed at venues including: Chelsea Factory, BAM Next Wave Festival NJPAC, Entertainment Community Fund Arts Center, Little Island, and Roulette. Kyle has received choreographic and dance film commissions from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Baryshnikov Arts Center, "Dance on the Lawn" Montclair's Dance Festival, Harlem Stage and THE SHED. National touring has included: Jacob’s Pillow Inside/Out (Beckett, MA), FringeArts, (Philadelphia), Bickford Theater/Morris Museum (NJ) and New World Center (Miami). Recognitions have included a 2018 NY Dance and Performance Juried Bessie Award, a 2020 Dance Magazine Harkness Promise Award and a 2020 Bessie Honoree for his revival of Colored. Kyle has also received choreographic fellowships from Princeton University, Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU, and residencies from the Monira Foundation, 92nd St Y, Center for Performance Research, American Dance Festival and Bethany Arts Community. As an educator, Kyle is currently an adjunct professor at NYU’s Open Arts Program and has been a guest artist at Rutgers University, Ailey/Fordham University, Eugene Lang/New School and Sarah Lawrence College. Kyle has engaged young artists through creative workshops at Operation Unite NY, Bloomfield College and New Jersey High Schools; Bayonne, County Prep, and Trenton Central. As a performer, Kyle was a member of the Trisha Brown Dance Company, doug elkins choreography etc., and Tiffany Mills Company. He is a graduate of Rutgers University with a BFA in Dance and currently resides in Brooklyn, NY. 

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Patrick Needham

Patrick McGrath is an LA native living in New York City. He earned his Bachelors of Fine Arts degree in Dance and Choreography from New York University Tisch School of the Arts. McGrath has been member of the Trisha Brown Dance Company since 2016. He has collaborated with Choreographers Maddie Schimmel and Netta Yerushalmy and has also performed experimental dance theatre with Company Stefanie Batten Bland and HOLDTIGHT. McGrath was a teacher for Summer dance intensives at the ASWARA School of Dance in Malaysia and WESTSIDE Dance Project in Southern California. In 2019 he started teaching for the Trisha Brown Dance Company's Education and Outreach program. McGrath is currently moving towards becoming a freelance choreographer and performing his own work.

Leah Morrison

Leah Morrison is a Brooklyn based dance artist, teacher, birth doula and Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist. Leah performed with the Trisha Brown Company from 2005-2013 and continues to participate in TBDC projects. She was awarded a Bessie Award for her performance of Brown’s solo, “If You Couldn’t See Me.” Leah has had the pleasure of dancing with Elena Demyanenko, Dai Jian and Kota Yamazaki. Leah’s dancing and bodywork are influenced by Body Mind Centering, Alexander technique, and mindfulness meditation. 

Lisa Schmidt/Lani Nahele

Lisa Schmidt/Lani Nahele is a performing terpsichorean artist, and longstanding movement educator. She received her BFA from the State University of New York at Purchase. In New York City, while on scholarship at the Merce Cunningham studio, she danced and performed with Ohad Naharin which made a lasting impression. She joined the Trisha Brown Dance Company in 1985. In the seven years she danced with the company, she had the good fortune to be part of the building process of six works with Trisha. In 1992 she spent several years in France, Spain and Germany working independently and in collaboration with gifted dancers and choreographers including Frey Faust, Helge Musial, Dieter Heitkamp, Katarina Rustler and Eva Geueke. In Germany she was awarded a commission and created a women’s quintet with original music compositions by Erich Kory and Erling Wold.

Lisa studied for four years with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen and has since developed a body of teaching that integrates the science of the body into physical research, articulation, and expression. With a decades-long study of improvisational dance, she dances, an on-going collaboration, in the practice “Underscore +/- “ with Nancy Stark Smith. She holds certifications in Body-Mind Centering, Circulatory Massage, Ortho-Bionomy, Reiki, Gyrotonic, Gyrokinesis, and Pilates. She has been a guest lecturer at Smith, Julliard, Marlboro, Bard, and Keene Colleges and is currently a Professor of Dance at Springfield College in Western Ma, where she restaged an excerpt of Trisha Brown’s “Set and Reset”.

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Shelley Senter

Shelley Senter is an independent and collaborative dance artist whose work has been presented worldwide. She danced with the Trisha Brown Dance Company from 1986-1991, and continues to perform as a guest on occasion.  Senter has directed reconstructions and adaptations of Brown's choreography for such institutions as the Lyon Opera Ballet, Centre Georges Pompidou, Barbican, P.A.R.T.S., Centre National de Danse Contemporaine, and many universities in the US. Senter is a repetiteur of Yvonne Rainer's Trio A, and has been presented as a "living archive" of the seminal choreography of Brown, Rainer and others in autobiographical performance-lectures at such venues as MoMA, the Tate Modern, Berliner Festival, and the US Embassy in Vienna, where she was honored for her particular approach to transmission and performance at the Impulstanz Festival. Her work is informed by her experience as a teacher of the Alexander Technique, member of LOWER LEFT Improvisation Performance Collective and collaborations with many distinguished artists.

Lee Serle

Lee Serle is a choreographer and performer creating dances for the stage, site-specific, interactive and participatory performance, installations, and intimate solo dances.
Commissioned to create new works for the Lyon Opera Ballet, Sydney Dance Company, Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative, Lucy Guerin Inc., Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), Dancenorth, and the Victorian College of the Arts, his work has been showcased to International audiences in USA, France, Lebanon, Colombia and Australia. Lee is a Rolex Arts Fellow (2010), Australia Council for the Arts, Creative Australia Fellow (2012), an artist in residence at ACCA, (2014) and at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASSMoCA, 2017). He has been a nominee for several Greenroom and Australian Dance Awards both as a performer, and for his choreographic work. As a sought after performer Lee has collaborated with Trisha Brown Dance Company, Tere O’Connor, Lucy Guerin, Chunky Move (Gideon Obarzanek), Shelley Lasica, Antony Hamilton, Stephanie Lake, Byron Perry, and Colombian visual artist Mateo López.

www.leeserle.com

Vicky Shick

Vicky Shick has been involved in the NYC dance community since the late seventies as performer, teacher and choreographer. During her six years with the Trisha Brown Company, she received a Bessie Award for performance and since then, she has restaged Brown’s dances in festivals and at universities in the United States and Europe, including her hometown, Budapest. She has been making her own dances since the eighties and was honored with a second “Bessie” for her collaborations with artist, Barbara Kilpatrick and sound designer, Elise Kermani. Shick has also worked with many other performers and choreographers and has created dances on students at several colleges.  She teaches regularly for Movement Research, the Trisha Brown Company and has taught at Hunter College, The New School, Princeton University and at Rutgers University. She is a two time Movement Research Artist in Residence, a 2006 grant recipient from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and a 2008-2009 Guggenheim Foundation Fellow.

Stuart Shugg

Stuart Shugg graduated in 2008 from the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, Australia. In Australia, he worked with Russell Dumas’s Dance Exchange, and Linda Sastradipradja. In NYC, Stuart has worked with Jon Kinzel, Jodi Melnick, and was a member of the Trisha Brown Dance Company from 2011 to 2016. His own work has been shown in NYC at the Center for Performance Research, Gibney Dance Center, at Kathy Weis’s Sundays on Broadway, and in Uruguay at Teatro Solis. Currently, Stuart is an MFA in Dance Teaching Fellow at Bennington College, Vermont, USA.

Stacy Matthew Spence

Stacy Matthew Spence is a New York City based choreographer, dancer, and teacher. He was born in Lake Charles, LA. and received an M.F.A. from Tisch School of the Arts. Stacy’s choreography has been commissioned by The High Line, Vega as North Star (El Norte es Sur) 2019 with visual artist Ronny Quevedo; The New School, This is how we got here 2017;  Danspace Project, This home is us 2017, and Eden as we recall 2012; as well as commissions from Tisch School of the Arts, London Contemporary Dance School, The University of New Mexico and the OtherShore Dance Company. His work was included in Ishmael Houston-Jones’s Platform 2012: Parallels for Danspace Project, and in co/motion directed by Margeret Peak as part of Jason Moran’s Whitney Biennial: Bleed. Also, Stacy performed in Joanna Kotze’s Big Beats 2021; at The Museum of Modern Art, NY in Deborah Hay’s Blues, as part of Ralph Lemon’s One Fine Day ; and in the work of Polly Motley and Molly Davies.  Stacy danced with The Trisha Brown Dance Company from 1997-2006, and he continues to be involved with the company through teaching and the re-staging of Trisha's work. Stacy has also taught nationally and internationally, and is currently on faculty at The New School in New York City.

Sam Wentz

Sam Wentz is a dance and performance artist based in Los Angeles. Originally from North Dakota, he graduated from Idyllwild Arts Academy in 2006, completed his BFA in Dance at NYU Tisch School of the Arts in 2009, and received his MFA in Dance and Choreography as a Teaching Fellow at Bennington College in 2016. He has performed with: Ajani Brannum, the Trisha Brown Dance Company (2009 – 2014), Wally Cardona + Jennifer Lacey, Jay Carlon, Gerald Casel, Dimitri Chamblas, the Merce Cunningham Trust, Katherine Helen Fisher, Levi Gonzalez, Jmy James Kidd, Mark Morris Dance Group, Abigail Levine, Annie B. Parson, Judith Sanchez Ruiz, Kensaku Shinohara, and Susan Sgorbati.   

His work has been presented at the Bennington Museum (VT), the Fire House (Joshua Tree) the Geffen Contemporary at MoCA, G-Son Studios, Human Resources, Pieter Performance Space, REDCAT, and The Tank NYC. 

He has taught company classes for the Trisha Brown Dance Company, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker’s ROSAS, the Lyon Opera Ballet, and Katherine Helen Fisher/Safety Third Productions. As a teacher of Trisha Brown’s work, he assisted in the re-staging of “L’Amour au Théâtre” (2009) on the Trisha Brown Company. In the Winter of 2019, he and fellow alumni remounted Trisha Brown’s “Foray Forêt” (1990) and “Newark” (1987) on the Lyon Opera Ballet in Lyon, France. 

Since 2013, he has been a returning, guest artist teacher at P.A.R.T.S. Brussels, Belgium. He has been a guest teacher at many colleges and universities including Bates College, University of Arizona - Tucson, University of California-Berkeley, University of California-Santa Barbara, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, University of Washington, and Yale University. He joined the Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance at CalArts faculty in the Fall of 2018 as an adjunct and became Regular Faculty in the Fall 2022.