Mission Statement
To nurture, support and produce the work of choreographer Trey McIntyre, and advance the form of contemporary ballet in innovative and groundbreaking ways.
Company History
July 2005, Trey McIntyre Project burst onto the national dance scene as a summer touring company with its debut at The Vail International Dance Festival. Trey McIntyre Project's "fresh and forward-thinking choreography" (Washington Post) was an immediate sensation with both critics and audiences alike.
The company went on to perform in 2006 and 2007 at some of the most prestigious summer venues in the country, including Jacob's Pillow and Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts, premiering works created during annual residencies at White Oak Plantation. Guided by Trey McIntyre's unparalleled ear for musical structures, Trey McIntyre Project's repertoire spans rock (A Day In The Life, set to music by The Beatles and High Lonesome to music by Beck), classical music (The Blue Boy to Beethoven, (serious) to Henry Cowell, Ten Pin Episodes to Frédéric Chopin) jazz (Ma Maison, historic bluegrass music selections (Go Out) and folk music (Leatherwing Bat to Peter, Paul and Mary).
Galvanized by overwhelming critical success during the summer tours, and an insatiable demand for national and international touring, Trey McIntyre Project launched as a full-time, year-round company for Year 1: 2008-09. The company embarked on its first annual 25-city tour across the US and abroad from its new home in Boise, ID, with commissions from three of America's esteemed presenting organizations, and institutional support from such organizations as The MAP Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts, M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust, Jerome Robbins Foundation and National Dance Project.
In August 2009, Trey McIntyre Project began Year 2: 2009-10 with the commissioned premiere of The Sun Road at Wolf Trap, celebrating the vast and changing Glacier National Park as part of their acclaimed Face of America series. Trey McIntyre Project again toured the globe creating and performing the works of Trey McIntyre with debuts in cities such as Austin, Houston, Boston and Seattle. The company garnered special attention from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation funded Engaging Dance Audiences grant from Dance/USA for it's cutting edge engagement methods which they employ in communities across the US, specifically during the collaborative 2010 Milwaukee Residency bringing together many of the city's artistic institutions for an in-depth two-week engagement residency.
Year 3: 2010-11 began with Trey McIntyre's creation of Arrantza celebrating Basque Culture with its premiere at the pentennial Jaialdi Festival in Boise, ID. In early 2011, McIntyre will engage in another highly-anticipated collaboration with Preservation Hall Jazz Band to create a distinctive new work complementing the original 2008 work, Ma Maison. Together, Preservation Hall and TMP will premiere the work February 4, 2011 in New Orleans and continue touring together for subsequent seasons. In a momentous two-week span in December 2010 Trey McIntyre was named the United States Artists Wynn Fellow, the company was featured on PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and TMP was chosen by the U.S. Department of State and Brooklyn Academy of Music as one of four American dance companies chosen to participate in DanceMotion USAsm. As part of this program Trey McIntyre Project will tour to China, South Korea, the Philippines and Vietnam in Spring 2012 serving as a U.S. Cultural Ambassador.
