Seán Curran

Seán Curran (Artistic Director Company) began his dance training with traditional Irish step dancing as a young boy in Boston, Massachusetts. He went on to make his mark on the dance world as a leading dancer with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. He received a New York Dance and Performance Bessie Award for his performance in Secret Pastures. A graduate and guest faculty member of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, Curran was an original member of the New York City cast of the Off-Broadway percussion extravaganza Stomp, performing in the show for four years. He has performed his solo evening of dances at venues throughout the United States as well as at Sweden's Danstation Theatre and France's EXIT Festival. Current and recent projects for Curran include productions of Much Ado About Nothing and A Midsummer Night's Dream for Shakespeare Theater, the upcoming twentieth anniversary production of Nixon in China at Opera Theater of St. Louis, a third new work for Trinity Irish Dance Company; choreography for the New York City Opera productions of L'Etoile, Alcina, Turandot, and the upcoming premiere of Haroun and the Sea of Stories; and the Playright's Horizon's production of My Life with Albertine. Curran choreographed the Broadway production of James Joyce's The Dead for Playwright's Horizons that opened at the Belasco Theater in January 2000. He has also created works for Denmark's Upper Cut Company, Sweden's Skänes Dance Theater, Irish Modern Dance Theatre, and Utah's Ririe Woodbury Dance Theater, Pittsburgh's Dance Alloy, as well as for numerous college and university dance departments. Curran has taught extensively at the American Dance Festival, Harvard Summer Dance Center, Bates Dance Festival, and Boston's Conservatory of Music. Irish American Magazine selected Curran as one of its "Top 100" in the year 2000. Curran was awarded a Choreographer's Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts in 2002 and is currently creating Art Song Dance for his company which will premiere at Jacob's Pillow in August 2004. seancurrancompany.com