Famous American contemporary ballet troupe comes to Vietnam

The Trey McIntyre Project Ballet Company performed for the first time in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. Each of their dance works depicts a diverse and colorful life.

At the Ho Chi Minh City Theater, on the evening of May 18, a dance troupe of about 10 members from the US will perform many impressive pieces such as: dance workIn dreams, Seriously, Bat with leather wings...

During their stay in Saigon, the Trey McIntyre Project also had a performance to interact with people in unfortunate circumstances and the hearing impaired. The group also had a program to meet artists from the Lotus Theater, attend dance technique training sessions with Vietnamese dancers, and discuss the dance profession with the Arabesque Dance Company and dancers from the Ho Chi Minh City Symphony, Music and Ballet Theater...

Previously, in Hanoi, this contemporary ballet company had a performance at the Au Co Arts Center on May 16. In the capital, Trey McIntyre Project interacted with artists from the Vietnam National Music and Dance Theater, dance college students, and visited children at the SOS Children's Village.

The company is named after Trey McIntyre, one of the most recognized choreographers in America today.

McIntyre, a native of Wichita, Kansas, has created more than 90 works for such renowned companies as American Ballet Theatre, Stuttgart Ballet, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, New York City Ballet and Ballet de Santiago (Chile). He was assistant choreographer for Houston Ballet from 1989 to 2008, and was chief choreographer for Oregon Ballet Theatre, Ballet Memphis and Washington Ballet before founding the Trey McIntyre Project in 2008 in Boise, Idaho.

In 2010, McIntyre received the prestigious United States Artists Wynn Fellow award. He has also been awarded the National Endowment for the Arts' Gold Medal for Lifetime Achievement, two Choreographic Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Choo-San Goh Award for Choreography, andDance MagazineVoted one of the top 25 choreographers of 2001.

McIntyre is also known asPeople MagazineVoted one of the 25 most attractive bachelors of 2003,Out MagazineVoted one of the most fashionable artists of 2008.

Newspaper critic Alastair MacauleyNew York Timescommented: "Choreographer McIntyre has great creativity, a very unique style". Writing about his dance company, the newspaperLos Angeles Timescommented: "This is truly the ballet of the 21st century, and it belongs to the boy fromWichitanot from overly polished names from England, France or Russia".

In addition to devoting himself to the Trey McIntyre Project, McIntyre also spends much of his time creating dance works that explore human experience, with a compelling twist by creating a performance space that has no boundaries between audience and work.

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