Troy Schumacher
Troy Schumacher | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 27, 1986 Atlanta, GA |
| Occupation(s) | Choreographer, Dancer, Artistic Director, Movement Director |
| Years active | 2005-Present |
| Career | |
| 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) |
| Website | troyschumacher.com |
Troy Schumacher is an American choreographer, dancer, and director based in New York City.[1] He is a soloist in the New York City Ballet and has choreographed for the company since 2014; before being promoted to soloist, he danced in NYCB's corps de ballet starting in 2005.[2] He is the founder of BalletCollective, an arts collective that has created new ballet-based works since its inception in 2010.[3] 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. He was promoted to soloist in 2017. [2]
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." [3]
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.[5]
References
- ^ "The New York Times". nytimes.com. Retrieved 2015-09-22.
- ^ a b "NYCB - Troy Schumacher". nycballet.com. Retrieved 2017-03-08.
- ^ a b "ABOUT BALLETCOLLECTIVE". BALLETCOLLECTIVE.
- ^ Harss, Marina (September 19, 2014). "A Dancer's Creative Evolution (Published 2014)" – via NYTimes.com.
- ^ "Performances". BALLETCOLLECTIVE.