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TREY MCINTYRE (Choreographer). A professionally-trained dancer, Trey McIntyre is one of the most sought-after choreographers working today. Born in Wichita, Kansas, Mr. McIntyre studied at North Carolina School of the Arts and later with Houston Ballet Academy. In 1989 he was named Choreographic Apprentice to Houston Ballet; a position created specially for him by Artistic Director Ben Stevenson. Mr. McIntyre has since created a canon of over 70 works for companies domestically and abroad. 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. Mr. 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.” In 2004, he 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.

THE WASHINGTON BALLET LEADERSHIP
SEPTIME WEBRE (Artistic Director) was appointed artistic director of The Washington Ballet in June 1999 after six years as artistic director of American Repertory Ballet in New Jersey. Much in demand as a choreographer, he has created works that appear in the repertoires of many companies in North America, including Pacific Northwest Ballet, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, North Carolina Dance Theatre, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, Ballet Austin, Atlanta Ballet, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, Cincinnati Ballet and Colorado Ballet, among many others. As a dancer, Mr. Webre was featured in works by George Balanchine, Paul Taylor, Antony Tudor, Alvin Ailey, and Merce Cunningham, as well as in principal and solo roles from the classical repertoire. Mr. Webre sits on the boards of Dance/USA, the Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington, the Advisory Committee of Dance/Metro DC, and has received the DC Mayor’s Arts Award for Visionary Leadership in the Arts as well as a number of fellowships for his choreography. Mr. Webre is the seventh son in a large Cuban-American family, and he graduated from the University of Texas with a B.A. in History/Pre-Law.

CHRISTOPHER BRUCE (Choreographer) made his dancing debut with Walter Gore’s London Ballet in 1963 and joined Ballet Rambert the same year, becoming a leading dancer in modern roles, from 1966 onward. He became a choreographer for Ballet Rambert (which became Rambert Dance Company in 1987) in 1969, becoming associate choreographer 1975–87, and associate director, 1975–79; associate choreographer for London Festival Ballet (becoming English National Ballet in 1989), 1986–91; resident choreographer, Houston Ballet, 1989-98; then associate choreographer until present day; artistic director, Rambert Dance Company, from April 1994 to December 2002. Has also staged works for Royal Ballet, Sadlers Wells Royal Ballet, Scottish Ballet, Israel’s Batsheva Dance Company, Munich Opera Ballet, Gulbenkian Ballet Company, Australian Dance Theatre, Royal Danish Ballet, Royal Swedish Ballet, Tanz-Forum (Cologne), Nederlands Dans Theater, Geneva Ballet, Cincinnati Ballet, Dutch National Ballet, San Francisco Ballet Ballet, Zurich Ballet, Basle Ballet, Ballet Krefeld-Mönchengladbach, Ballet Mainz, Deutche Ballet Berlin, Dusseldorf Ballet, Kiel Ballet, Canadian National Ballet, Ballet Gyor; has worked as choreographer/producer of operas, musicals, and television programmes. Awards include Evening Standard Award, 1974 and 1997; Prix Italia (for Television Production of Cruel Garden),1982; International Theatre Institute Award for Excellence in International Dance, 1993; De Valois Award for Outstanding Contribution to Dance at Critics’ Circle National Dance Awards, 2003; Rheinische Post Theater Oscar for ‘A Evening of Work by Christopher Bruce’ at Theater Krefeld-Mönchengladbach 2004; Best Choreography, Critics’ Circle Awards, 2009. Christopher Bruce was awarded a C.B E in 1998; Honorary Doctor of Art from De Montfort University, 2000; Honorary Doctor of Letters from University of Exeter, 2001; Honorary Life Membership of Amnesty International, 2002.