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Christopher

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Roman

About Me (human/individual)/interests, work..short bio/ THis is the most important. It is the only way to know that you are not a SPAMBOT!Be generous!

I am an artist and began my experience at the age of 9 on stage in theatre and musical theatre and forged my relationship with dance on the streets breakdancing, popping and locking. I started my formal dance training at the age of 14 in Wilmington, DE at the Anna Marie Dance Studio. I moved to Cleveland at the age of 16 to study at the School of Cleveland Ballet and joined the company there as an apprentice the following year. I moved to New York soon after to continue my studies on full scholarship at the School of American Ballet at Juilliard, official school of the New York City Ballet, as well as open myself up to the dance world of New York City in it's entirety studying with everyone from Willy Burmann to Mia Michaels, Maggie Black to Michael Owens, David Howard to Suzie Taylor, Frank Hatchet to Joe Lanteri and Chet Walker as well as studying at the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance. I'm currently a principal dancer with The Forsythe Company in Germany formerly known as the Frankfurt Ballet under the direction of William Forsythe and have been for the last 11 years. I've been a full company member as a soloist and principal with the Pacific Northwest Ballet in Seattle, The Miami City Ballet with Edward Vilella, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens in Montreal and The Pennsylvania Ballet in Philadelphia. Through these affiliations I have had the great honor to perform on just about every major stage and theatrical venue in North, Central and South America, Europe and Asia and dance the choreography of every major and up and coming choreographer to date. I have co-directed my own company with former Wooster Group video designer Philip Bußmann called 2+ and have choreographed pieces for The Russian Ballet Theatre, The Pennsylvania Ballet, The Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Festival de Dans in Cannes, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, Cadance Festival Holland, Skulpturenpark in Graz and others. As a freelancer, I have performed in many galas and installations worldwide as a guest artist, most notably 'You Made Me a Monster' a performance installation in collaboration with William Forsythe which premiered at the Venice Bienale in 2005 and won the 2007 Bessie Award for Best Installation and New Media for it's New York premiere at the Baryshnikov Center and was performed at every major dance festival worldwide. I have also been the subject of many fine art installations including Peter Welz's "It's too fucking loud, it's too fucking fast" and "figure inscribing a circle" with exhibitions at the Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, the Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Kiasiama Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, NEXT, Art Chicago, Chicago, USA, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderne, Rom as well as in Philip Bußmann's "Video /Bilder" and "Detail" for Kunstfoyer Gallus Theater and Künstlerhaus Mousonturm respectively. I have worked as a teacher and ballet master for the works and improvisational technologies of William Forsythe with such companies and institutions as the Lyon Opera Ballet, Staatsballett München, The Finnish National Ballet, La Scala Opera Ballet, D.A.N.C.E. in Brussels, guest teacher for NYU Tisch School of the Arts and the dance department at Ohio State University for "Motion Bank" and the groundbreaking "Synchronous Objects" project and am featured in the film 'One Flat Thing Reproduced' on which it is based. I am also a ballet, hip-hop and jazz teacher and have taught for various institutions including the Miami Magnet Program, professional ballet companies and various dance schools and acadamies worldwide. I am a certified Dynamic Yoga teacher studying under the guidance of Godfrey Devereux. I am also an alum of the Atlantic Acting School in New York City. I was recently awarded The Faust Theater Prize, Germany's highest theater honor, as best performer in William Forsythe's 'I Don't Believe in Outerspace'. I am also a teacher and co-founder of Movement Progressive a collaboration between former dancer and teacher Steffi Arndt, sports scientist Patrick Rump and myself with the goal to bring awareness , understanding and support to the dancer's artistry and host workshops throughout Europe to that end.

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