A renowned contemporary American ballet company is coming to Vietnam.
The Trey McIntyre Project ballet company is performing in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City for the first time. Each of their dance pieces depicts diverse and vibrant aspects of life.
During their stay in Saigon, the Trey McIntyre Project also held performances and interactions with underprivileged and hearing-impaired individuals. The group also met with artists from the Bong Sen Theatre, attended dance training sessions with Vietnamese dancers, and participated in discussions about the dance profession with the Arabesque dance troupe and dancers from the Ho Chi Minh City Symphony Orchestra, Opera and Ballet Theatre.
Earlier in Hanoi, this contemporary ballet company performed at the Au Co Art Center on May 16th. In the capital, the Trey McIntyre Project interacted with artists from the Vietnam National Opera and Ballet Theatre, dance college students, and visited children at the SOS Children's Village.
This dance company is named after Trey McIntyre, one of the most well-known choreographers in America today.
McIntyre, a native of Wichita, Kansas, has successfully choreographed over 90 works for renowned dance companies such as the American Ballet Theatre, Stuttgart Ballet, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, New York City Ballet, and Ballet de Santiago (Chile). He served as assistant choreographer for the Houston Ballet from 1989 to 2008 and as principal choreographer for the Oregon Ballet, Memphis Ballet, 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 also received the National Society for the Arts and Letters' Gold Medal for Lifetime Achievement, two graduate fellowships in choreography from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Choo-San Goh award for choreography, and wasDance MagazineBau was one of the top 25 choreographers in 2001.
McIntyre alsoQuestioning MagazineVoted as one of the 25 most attractive bachelors of 2003,Out MagazineVoted as one of the most fashionable artists of 2008.
Newspaper critic Alastair MacauleyNew York TimesCommenting, the newspaper said: "Choreographer McIntyre has incredible creativity and a very unique style." Writing about his dance company, the newspaper...Los Angeles TimesComment: "This is truly the ballet of the 21st century, and it belongs to this young man from..."
In addition to devoting himself entirely to the Trey McIntyre Project, McIntyre also devoted considerable time to creating dance works that explored human experiences, transforming them in a captivating way by creating an artistic performance space where there were no boundaries between the audience and the work.
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