Thompson, Artistic Director
Keith A. Thompson, Choreographer, teacher, dancer, completed his MFA Research Fellowship in Dance from Bennington College in 2003, danced internationally for the Trisha Brown Dance Company from 1992-2001, served as Trisha’s Rehearsal Assistant from 1998-2001, has performed with the Bebe Miller Company and currently performs and is rehearsal director with Liz Lerman; he
has taught master classes and workshops in Contemporary Technique, choreography and partnering globally including serving as a master company teacher for Sasha Waltz & Dancers (Berlin), he has taught at TsEKh Summer Dance School Moscow Russia, the International Dance Festival (Kyoto, Sapporo, Tokyo Japan), Tanzwerkstatt Europa Festival (Munich), Berlin, Paris, Montpelier France and the Korea Dance Festival (Seoul, Korea); Keith has been faculty at the Florida Dance Festival, American Dance Festival, has served on several university faculties, and is current faculty at Mason Gross School of the Arts Dance Department at Rutgers University, he has served on artistic panels such as DTW’s Fresh Tracks and adjudicator for American College Dance Festival Association, since ’06; he’s had his own company, ‘danceTactics performance group’, his choreography has been featured at Harvard University, University of Maryland College Park, the American Dance Festival Faculty Concert, Montpelier International Dance Festival, Dance Theater Workshop Guest Artist Series 2006 (New York, NY); Dance Boom Festival at the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia, Dixon Place NYC, Dance New Amsterdam NYC, American Dance Guild Festival, the 15th Anniversary Dancenow New York Festival, the 2011 Annual Aging in America Conference in San Francisco, the 2012 2nd Annual Feature Length Independent Choreography Festival in Brooklyn NY and Jersey Moves Festival of Dance 2013 at Victoria Theater/New Jersey Performing Arts Center. The company is currently an artist member on Pentacle’s Gallery Roster.
