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Contemporary
Advanced Intermediate Level
Fridays, 10-11:30am
Born and raised in New York City, Gregory made his professional
stage debut at the age of eight with the Glimmerglass Opera
Company. Soon after, he was cast in the Philip Glass/Robert
Wilson world tour of Einstein on the Beach. Gregory received his
dance training at the Alvin Ailey School on a fellowship
scholarship and then graduated cum laude from SUNY Purchase
dance conservatory were he studied composition with Kazuko
Hirabayashi. Since then he as gone on to dance and choreograph with a variety of artists, performing with Patrick Corbin, Nelly van Bommel, Sylvain Emard, and The Chicago Ballet. He was resident choreographer for both Chicago Ballet’s spring season in 2008 and CorbinDances in 2007. He was selected as one of four emerging choreographers in the Springboard Montreal intensive run by Juilliard’s Alexandra Wells. He formed a self-produced collaboration with Sidra Bell at the Gershwin Hotel. Gregory’s works have also been performed at Jacob's Pillow Inside/Out Dance Festival (MA), Joyce SoHo, Alvin Ailey Studio Theatre (NY), Dance Place (DC), Athenaeum Theatre (Chicago), The Dance Theater Lab (SUNY Purchase), and as part of the Dance Sampler at Symphony Space, as well as his first commission for CityDance Ensemble in Washington D.C. He showed his work as part of the Emerging Artists Program at DTW’s Summer DANZ Festival. Later that year, Gregory debuted his own company, The DASH Ensemble, in December 2009 at JOYCE SoHo. Following that, in 2010 The DASH performed as part of Jacob’s Pillow Inside/Out Festival in July, DanceNOW at DTW in September and the NuDances Series at Riverside Church in December. Gregory has been a guest teacher at Peridance and DNA, and is the co-founder of The Playground an open-door, on-going choreographic program. The DASH just made its JOYCE Theater debut earlier in June 2011 as part of their Summer Sampler Matinee Series for Emerging Choreographers. Commissions include The “Pretty Creatives” program with Northwest Dance Project in Portland,OR in July 2011 and also The New American Talent Competition with Ballet Austin in October 2011.
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