University of Florida Performing Arts

To read an interview with Trey McIntyre that appeared in Dance Magazine, click here.

To see a video clip of Trey McIntyre Project (TMP)’s Wild Sweet Love - Behind the Scenes, click here. 

About Trey McIntyre Project (TMP)
Three short years ago, Trey McIntyre Project (TMP) burst onto the national dance scene with its debut performances at The Vail International Dance Festival.  TMP’s “fresh and forward-thinking choreography” (Washington Post) was an immediate sensation with both critics and audiences alike.  Led by celebrated choreographer Trey McIntyre, whose work has been commissioned by American Ballet Theatre, Stuttgart Ballet, and many other top ballet companies around the world, TMP also boasts an ensemble of top professional dancers, who have danced with companies such as The Washington Ballet, Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet, Ballet Memphis and Oregon Ballet Theatre.

Since its inaugural season, the Company has gone on to perform at some of the most prestigious venues in the country, including Jacob’s Pillow, Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts and the Aspen Dance Festival, premiering works created during annual summer residencies at White Oak Plantation.  Guided by the choreographer’s unparalleled ear for musical structures, TMP’s repertoire spans classical music (The Blue Boy to Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1), rock (A Day in the Life, set to music by The Beatles and High Lonesome to music by Beck), jazz (Sacred Ellington, a collaboration with opera legend Jessye Norman and Blue Until June to music by Etta James), and historic bluegrass music selections (Go Out).

TMP was initially formed as a summer touring company.  Because of the overwhelmingly positive critical reception of the Company’s work since its founding in 2004 and the success of its operational model, TMP incorporated as a non-profit entity in order to be able to support a full-time, international touring company.  TMP will debut the Company in its new form in a 30-city tour across the United States and abroad during the 2008-09 season.  McIntyre’s ambitious new multimedia ballet The Sun Road about the effects of global warming, commissioned jointly by the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts and Glacier National Park for its Face of America program, will premiere in the summer of 2009 as part of the Company’s tour across America.   
  
About Trey McIntyre
A professionally-trained dancer, Trey McIntyre is one of the most sought-after choreographers working today. Born in Wichita, Kansas, McIntyre studied at the North Carolina School of the Arts and later with the Houston Ballet Academy. In 1989 McIntyre was named Choreographic Apprentice to Houston Ballet; a position created specially for him by Artistic Director Ben Stevenson. McIntyre has since created a canon of over 70 works for companies domestically and abroad, including Stuttgart Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, New York City Ballet and Ballet de Santiago (Chile). He has served as Resident Choreographer for Oregon Ballet Theatre, Ballet Memphis, and The Washington Ballet. From 1995 until 2007, he was Choreographic Associate for Houston Ballet. McIntyre has received numerous prestigious grants and awards, including two choreographic fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Choo-San Goh Award for Choreography. In 2003, he was named one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch.”

McIntyre’s choreographic lexis is truly distinctive.  Using classical ballet as the point of departure, he creates emotionally-charged movement experiences that defy categorization.  Through his ongoing exploration of new ways to de-formalize movement, he distills emotions, ideas, and his own ideas about culture and relationships into the texture of his choreography, in an interplay between art, society, and culture.  In 2004, McIntyre established his critically-acclaimed Trey McIntyre Project (TMP), a dance company that has allowed him to continue his artistic and creative relationships with a select group of high-caliber dancers.  In just three short summers of touring, the company has distinguished itself nationally for its artistic clarity and integrity, technical virtuosity, and powerful and passionate performance style.  Based on this success, prestigious presenters such as White Bird and Wolf Trap have awarded commissions to McIntyre to create new work for his company, while White Oak has provided three consecutive years of month-long residencies during which the company created Go Out, Hymn and The Blue Boy.  TMP will launch as a full-time company, operating out of Boise, Idaho, in the summer of 2008, followed by a 30-city tour around the world in its inaugural year.

This performance is funded in part by a grant from the Southern Arts Federation in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the State Art Agency of Florida.