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How did this begin?

Trey McIntyre Project was founded in 2005. The company achieved great audience and critical success as McIntyre created over 23 original works for the company as well as numerous film projects, interactive site specific works, and photography collections. They have been featured in The New York Times, Dance Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, PBS NewsHour, The Washington Post, and many more. The company performed in hundreds of prestigious venues across the world including Brooklyn Academy of Music, Carnegie Hall, Jacob’s Pillow, Walt Disney Concert Hall, and Zellerbach Hall. They also traveled to China, South Korea, Vietnam, and The Philippines on behalf of the US State Department as a part of Dance Motion USA.

In 2014, McIntyre announced that the company (at the height of its success) would transition from being a touring dance company to focus on new creative projects…one of which is this website.

Who is Trey McIntyre?

Trey McIntyre was created in 1969 as a collaboration between his mother and father. His interest both in art and getting the hell away from Kansas led him to train at North Carolina School of the Arts and the Houston Ballet Academy. In 1989, he was appointed Choreographic Apprentice to Houston Ballet, a position created especially for him, and in 1995 he became the company’s Choreographic Associate. He has worked for more than 30 years as a freelance choreographer, producing more than 100 pieces during the span of his career so far. He also did a bunch of other cool things, including working with a lot of amazing companies such as The Stuttgart Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Queensland Ballet, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, New York City Ballet, Oregon Ballet Theatre, BalletX, The Washington Ballet, Ballet Memphis, and San Francisco Ballet.

He has won numerous awards and honors such as the Choo San Goh Award for Choreography, a Lifetime Achievement Award from The National Society of Arts and Letters, two personal grants for choreography from The National Endowment for the Arts, and is a United States Artists Fellow. In 2019, he won the Isadora Duncan Award for Outstanding Achievement in Choreography for his work Your Flesh Shall be a Great Poem, which he created for San Francisco Ballet for their Unbound Festival. He was named one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” in 2001, one of People Magazine’s “25 Hottest Bachelors” in 2003, and one of Out Magazine’s 2008 “Tastemakers.” The New York Times critic Alastair Macaulay said of Mclntyre, “…There’s a fertility of invention and a modernity of spirit here that are all Mr. Mclntyre’s own.” The Los Angeles Times wrote, “…There is indeed such a thing as genuine 21st century ballet, and it belongs more to this guy from Wichita than any of the over-hyped pretenders from England, France or Russia.”

A confessed polymath, McIntyre has developed a cult following for his photography of the human body (see more at Patreon), written several published essays, and completed the feature-length documentary Gravity Hero, which premiered at the Dance on Camera Film Festival at Lincoln Center.

His main focus recently has been adding more love into the world. He loves you and doesn’t even know you.

Board of Directors

Blair Kutrow
Board Chair
Wrightsville Beach, NC
Emeritus Member

Trey McIntyre
President
Brooklyn, NY
Emeritus Member

Richard Raimondi
Vice Chair
Boise, ID
Emeritus Member

Virginia McGehee Friend
Secretary
Waterford, VA
Emeritus Member

Mark Aronchick
Penn Valley, PA
Emeritus Member

Katie Heil
Milwaukee, WI
Emeritus Member

Jodi Peck
Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Emeritus Member

Lonnie Shumsky
Boise, ID
Emeritus Member

Emeritus Members:
Anne Mueller
Blair Kutrow
Trey McIntyre
Richard Raimondi
Virginia McGehee Friend
Mark Aronchick
Rob Chimsky
Nancy Einhorn
Frankie Hoover Gibson
C.K. Haun
Katie Heil
Bert Johnson
Jodi Peck
Lonnie Shumsky
E. Dollie Wolverton

Trey McIntyre Project is a project based company dedicated to realizing the artistic vision of artistic director Trey McIntyre. The organization is currently focusing on McIntyre’s explorations in dance, film, photography, and writing. A key component of this realization is letting audiences engage in the creative process–whether that’s through making a ballet in front of their very eyes–or giving them behind the scenes access to a shoot.

Mission Statement

To nurture, support and produce the artistic vision of Trey McIntyre
and engage individuals and communities in the experience of art.

Trey McIntyre

McIntyre trained at North Carolina School of the Arts and Houston Ballet Academy. In 1989, McIntyre was appointed Choreographic Apprentice to Houston Ballet, a position created especially for him, and in 1995 he became the company’s Choreographic Associate. McIntyre has worked for twenty-four years as a freelance choreographer, producing close to one hundred pieces during the span of his career so far.

In 2005, McIntyre founded his dance company, Trey McIntyre Project, which first appeared at the Vail International Dance Festival. The company was initially a summer touring company, but its national and international success led McIntyre to establish the company year-round as of 2008, based in Boise, Idaho. TMP has been featured in The New York Times, Dance Magazine, and on PBS NewsHour, and has earned coast-to-coast acclaim from the likes of Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, People Magazine, and more. In 2013, Trey McIntyre Project expanded its artistic vision and announced a crowdsourced documentary film entitled Ma Maison. The project was announced on Kickstarter on August 7, 2013, and in November, 2013, McIntyre went to New Orleans to begin filming.

McIntyre is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Choo San Goh Award for Choreography and a Lifetime Achievement Award from The National Society of Arts and Letters, as well as two grants for choreography from the National Endowment for the Arts. His works have been performed by companies such as Stuttgart Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago,New York City Ballet, The Washington Ballet, and Oregon Ballet Theatre.