- Seán Curran
Seán Curran is an American dancer and choreographer. Curran's dance company, the Seán Curran Company is based in New York City.
As a boy in the Boston suburb of
Belmont, Massachusetts , Curran began dancing by learning traditional Irish step dancing. "I used to go once a week for a dollar," Curran recalled in a 1999 New York Times profile, "I learned quickly and our teachers had us performing. The dance and performing bug bit me pretty early." [cite news | first=Kevin | last=Giordano | coauthors= | title= DANCE; Performing, Directing and Paying the Bills | date=1999-01-03 | publisher= | url =http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9901E7DD123FF930A35752C0A96F958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1 | work =The New York Times | pages = | accessdate = 2008-08-12 | language = ]Curran later spent four years as an original member of the New York cast of STOMP!, performing in the show for four years. [ cite web|url=http://www.danceart.com/DanceMakers/curran.htm |title=Sean Curran - Phillips Interview |accessdate=2008-08-12 |last=Phillips |first=Tony |work=danceMakers, The Art of Dance Creation ] Curran has performed with New York’s Danspace Project and was a lead dancer
Bill T. Jones /Arnie Zane Dance Company. [cite news | first=Sylviane | last=Gold | coauthors= | title=Putting His Shoes on and His Hand Out | date=2005-06-05 | publisher= | url =http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/05/arts/dance/05sylv.html | work =The New York Times | pages = | accessdate = 2008-08-11 | language = ]Curran is a graduate of
New York University ’s Tisch School of the Arts, where he now serves as a guest faculty member. Curran has also taught at theAmerican Dance Festival , Harvard Summer Dance Center, Bates Dance Festival, and TheBoston Conservatory .Curran founded the Seán Curran Company in 1997.
The Company premiered "Art/Song/Dance", a collaboration Curran and the Broadway composer
Ricky Ian Gordon , at theJacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in 2004. "Art/Song/Dance" had its New York Premiere in 2005 at the Joyce Theatre. [cite news | first=Gia | last=Kourlas | coauthors= | title=In Preppy Pants, Seeking the Accessible | date=2005-06-09 | publisher= | url =http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/09/arts/dance/09curr.html | work =The New York Times | pages = | accessdate = 2008-08-11 | language = ]In 1985, while a member of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, Curran received a New York Dance and Performance Bessie Award for his solo performance in "Secret Pastures". [cite news | first=Victoria | last=Looseleaf | coauthors= | title=One Foot in Art, One in Commerce | date=
2002-10-06 | publisher= | url =http://articles.latimes.com/2002/oct/06/entertainment/ca-loose6 | work =The Los Angeles Times | pages =F 59 | accessdate = 2008-08-12 | language = ] TheNew York Foundation for the Arts awarded Curran a Choreographer’s Fellowship in both 1998 and 2002.References
External links
* [http://www.seancurrancompany.com/
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