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Christopher Roman
Contemporary
Biography:
Christopher Roman began his formal training with The School of Cleveland Ballet continuing at The School of American Ballet, NYC both on full scholarship. He was invited into the ranks of the Pacific Northwest Ballet and as a soloist and principal with Edward Villella's Miami City Ballet, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montreal, The Pennsylvania Ballet, and as a guest artist with Sasha Waltz and Guests and Complexions Contemporary Dance Company. For the last 12 years Christopher has been a principal artist with Ballett Frankfurt and The Forsythe Company and contributed to the creation of 25 original works with Will Forsythe and the company.
In 2005, Mr. Roman co-founded the company 2+ with video
designer Philip Bussmann, formerly of The Wooster Group,
and created work for the Festival de Danse in Cannes,
Kuenstlerhaus Mousonturm in Frankfurt, Tanzkongress,
Berlin and Gallus Kunstfoyer, Frankfurt am Main. On his
own he has created work for The Russian Ballet Theatre,
The Pennsylvania Ballet, The Philadelphia Fringe Festival,
Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montreal, Cadance
Festival Holland and Skulpturenpark, Graz. Christopher
has also been a ballet master and choreographic assistant
for the works of William Forsythe, most recently in
collaboration with Sylvie Guillem and Nicolas Le Riche for
the original work Rearray for Sadler's Wells,
London. He is a teacher of classical ballet and
improvisational workshops and in 2010 was named the
Score Manager and Education Coordinator for the Motion
Bank initiative in association with The Forsythe Company.
It was in the role as ballet master/assistant that he
became a key researcher for the Synchronous Objects
project with Ohio State University. William Forythe's Obie
Award winning You made me a monster was
created with Mr. Roman and he is the 2009 recipient of
Germany's highest theater honor Der Deutsche
Theaterpreis DER FAUST for best performance, dance.
Christopher is an accomplished choreographer and actor
and a graduate of the Atlantic Acting School in NY and his
pursuits are to continue a broader understanding and
experimentation with the meshing of theater,
choreography, dance and direction through original
collaborative works.
He is currently the curator for the MFA European Residency Studies at Hollins University in collaboration with ADF and in 2012 is teaching at Butler University, University of California Irvine, Juilliard, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Steps NYC, the Goethe Institute- China, Turkey and Japan, Dance Arts Faculty in Rome and as Guest Lecturer and Choreographer in Residence at Harvard University.