View this image gallery of performances choreographed by our visiting artists.
The SPS Visiting Artist Program (VAP) is designed to expose our students and the greater community to prominent styles of choreography.
The VAP brings professional dancers, choreographers, and master teachers to campus to work one-on-one with SPS students, teaching classes and repertory in their various styles, and setting choreography on the St. Paul’s School Ballet Company for the Winter and Spring Performances. Guests work extensively with the Ballet Company dancers both in rehearsal and teaching classes during their stay at SPS.
Since its inception in 2012, the VAP has hosted guests from American Ballet Theatre, Merce Cunningham Trust, Twyla Tharp Dance Foundation, Paul Taylor Dance Company, Batsheva Dance Company, New York City Ballet, Big Dance Theater, Ballet X, Chamber Dance Project, Harvard University, Brown University, New York University, Bowdoin College, and master teachers from American Ballet Theatre, the School of American Ballet, Boston Ballet, and The George Balanchine Trust.
Recent Guest Artists
Carlos Lopez
American Ballet Theatre
Guest Choreographer
Rosalynde LeBlanc
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, Mikhail Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Project, Loyola Marymount University
Guest Choreographer
Duncan Cooper
Dance Theatre of Harlem, San Francisco Ballet, REVEL Dance Convention
Guest Choreographer
Deborah Wingert
The George Balanchine Trust, Manhattan Youth Ballet, The Juilliard School
Guest teacher and Repetiteur
Ethan Stiefel
Artistic Director American Repertory Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet, Artistic Director Royal New Zealand Ballet
Guest Choreographer
Caili Quan
Ballet X
Guest Choreographer
Alexander Brady
Twyla Tharp Dance, Joffrey Ballet
Guest Choreographer
John Parks
Alvin Ailey, Broadway and Film, University of South Florida
Guest Choreographer
Jessica Jone
Moving Dragon, Lorita Leung Dance Academy
Guest Choreographer — ZOOM
Sekani Robinson
History of Black Dancers in Ballet (pt3)
Guest Lecturer — ZOOM
Sung Woo Han
American Ballet Theatre
Guest Choreographer
Adrienne Hurd
The Ailey School, JKO School at American Ballet, Theatre Ailey II, The Jamison Project
Guest Choreographer
Carmela Gallace
The Moiseyev Dance Company, American Ballet Theatre
Guest Choreographer
Yan Chen
Orlando Ballet, American Ballet Theatre
Guest Choreographer