Troy Schumacher (dancer)

Troy Schumacher
Born (1986-09-27) September 27, 1986
Atlanta, GA
Occupation Choreographer, Dancer, Artistic Director, Movement Director
Years active 2005-Present
Website troyschumacher.com
Current group New York City Ballet, Founder and Artistic Director of BalletCollective
Dances Selected: The Impulse Wants Company (2013), Clearing Dawn (2014), All That We See (2014),Common Ground (2015), Invisible Divide (2015)

Troy Schumacher is an American choreographer, dancer, and director living in New York, NY.[1] He has danced in the corps de ballet of New York City Ballet since 2005 and choreographed for the company since 2014.[2] His aesthetic draws upon the artists he collaborates with to produce work that has been called "a completely fresh use of familiar dance language" in the New York Times.[3] He is the founder of BalletCollective, an arts collective driven toward creating new ballet-based works that has been moving ballet forward since its inception in 2010. His work has been presented by New York City Ballet, Performa, Danspace Project, Guggenheim Works and Process, the Joyce Theater, and NYU Skirball Center. In addition to live performances, Schumacher has choreographed numerous fashion and commercial shoots, including works for Sony PlayStation, Capezio featuring Maddie Ziegler HP, Aritzia, CR Fashion Book, Tom Ford, and The New York Times.[4]

Dancing career

Since joining New York City Ballet in 2005, Schumacher has performed principal roles in a number of ballets including George Balanchine’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, Mozartiana, Nutcracker, Vienna Waltzes, Prodigal Son, Union Jack, Suite No. 3 and Stars and Stripes, Jerome Robbins’ Interplay and The Concert, and Alexei Ratmansky’s Concerto DSCH. He has originated roles in ballets by Peter Martins, Benjamin Millepied and Christopher Wheeldon.[5]

Choreography and Direction

While dancing full-time with City Ballet, in 2010 Schumacher founded BalletCollective, a non-profit arts collective that "brings together artists, poets, composers, choreographers, and designers to collaborate as equals, exchanging ideas to absorb each others’ influence throughout the creation of distinctive works of art." [6]

Since its founding, BalletCollective has produced eight ballets, each with original choreography by Schumacher, music, and source art, and presented five annual seasons in New York, NY in venues such as The Joyce Theater, NYU Skirball Center and the Baryshnikov Arts Center.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "The New York Times". nytimes.com. Retrieved 2015-09-22.
  2. ↑ "NYCB - Troy Schumacher". nycballet.com. Retrieved 2015-09-22.
  3. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/20/arts/dance/troy-schumacher-and-balletcollective-open-eyes.html?_r=0
  4. ↑ TroySchumacher.com
  5. ↑ http://www.nycballet.com/Dancers/Dancers-Bios/Troy-Schumacher.aspx
  6. ↑ http://balletcollective.com/about/
  7. ↑ http://balletcollective.com/performances/


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