Charlotte Boye-Christensen
Artistic DirectorCHARLOTTE BOYE-CHRISTENSEN, a native of Denmark, has fulfilled the demanding career of freelance choreographer, teacher and dancer for the past 14 years. She joined Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company in 2002 to assist in the artistic direction of the company and has created 18 new works on the company.
She received her formal training at London Contemporary Dance School and at the Laban Centre in London (where she won the 1992 choreography award) and completed her MFA Degree at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.
She has been commissioned to create new works for The Milwaukee Ballet, Singapore Dance Theatre, The Arts Fissions Dance Company, Ballet de Camaguey in Cuba, New Danish Dance Theatre, Tisch School of the Arts' Second Avenue Dance Company in NYC, London Contemporary Dance School's Edge Dance Company and Verb Ballets in Cleveland. She has also choreographed at the Universities of Utah, Princeton, Rutgers, Long Beach, at Southern Utah University, at The National School for Contemporary Dance in Denmark, The Kuopio Conservatory in Finland, The Royal Danish Ballet School, University of the Americas in Mexico, and at the Bellas Artes International Choreography Competition in Mexico City. Ms Boye-Christensen has been invited to participate in "The Yard" Dance Colony in Massachusetts, The International Course for Professional Choreographers and Composers in England, the International Choreographic Platform in Portugal and to teach and choreograph at the International Dance Competition in Seoul. She has worked with Multimedia artist, Usman Haque at the Metropolitan Museum of Photography in Tokyo, with theatre-director, Erik Gottlieb on Sam Shepard's plays Savage/Love in Copenhagen, with Utah Symphony on Stravinsky's Soldier's Tale and Renard, directed the stage workshop at the famed Bauhaus Institute in Germany, done a collaborative work with the Arts organization, Brolly Arts involving the Ahn Trio and the composer, Michael Nyman and one with multimedia artists Juhl/Viktov involving the military device "night vision", staged at the New Opera House in Copenhagen. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship and grants from the Theatre and Arts Councils in Denmark, Germany, Mexico and Singapore amongst others, as well as a recipient of the Choo-San Goh Award for Choreographic Excellence.
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