Koresh Dance Company: No Shock Here…..Roni’s Home!
photo by Bicking Photography by Gregory King, Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance at Swarthmore College for The Dance Journal A favorite meal. A familiar band.
Gregory King is a culturally responsive educator, performance artist, activist, and movement maker who received his MFA in Choreographic Practice and Theory from Southern Methodist University and is certified in Elementary Labanotation from the Dance Notation Bureau. His dance training began at the Washington Ballet and continued at American University and Dance Theatre of Harlem. He has participated in the Horton Project in conjunction with the Library of Congress and has performed with Rebecca Kelly Ballet, The Washington Ballet, Erick Hawkins Dance Company, New York Theatre Ballet, Donald Byrd /The Group, The Metropolitan Opera Ballet, New York City Opera, and Disney’s The Lion King on Broadway.
As a choreographer, his works have been commissioned by Transformer Station (Cleveland, OH), Georgian Court University (Lakewood, NY), Texas Ballet Theatre School (Dallas, TX), Indiana University (Bloomington, IN), The Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology 16th Biennial Symposium (New London, CT), Current Sessions (New York, NY), and SPACES Gallery (Cleveland, OH), and presented at Dixon Place (New York, NY), The Kennedy Center (Washington D.C.), and Playhouse Square (Cleveland, OH).
He has taught master classes, lectures, and workshops nationally and internationally. He has served as dance faculty for Texas Ballet Theatre and Boston Ballet, as well as visiting assistant professor of dance at Temple University, and Swarthmore College.
King is a dance writer for The Dance Enthusiast, ThINKingDANCE, The Philadelphia Dance Journal, CHOICE Review, and Broad Street Review. Mr. King’s response to the Dancing for Justice Philadelphia event, was published in Conversations Across the Field of Dance Studies and cited in the U. S. Department of Arts and Culture’s 2016 resource guide, Art Became the Oxygen. In 2020 King was awarded a See Chicago Dance Critical Writing Fellowship and was invited to present his research at The University of Auckland, New Zealand.
In addition to having served on the dance review board for the National Endowment for the Arts, King was nominated for a Governor’s Award for the Arts in Ohio and was recently appointed to the Board of OhioDance. He was the 2018 recipient of the Outstanding Creative Contribution award from the Division of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Kent State University, and served as Provost Faculty Associate for the academic year 2019- 2020. Mr. King is a tenure track professor of dance at Kent State where he serves as the artistic director of the Kent Dance Ensemble.
photo by Bicking Photography by Gregory King, Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance at Swarthmore College for The Dance Journal A favorite meal. A familiar band.
by Gregory King, Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance at Swarthmore College for The Dance Journal For a lot of dancers, being in a second company
Dancer: Adama Ideozu | Photo Credit: Rachel Neville by Gregory King, Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance at Swarthmore College for The Dance Journal The Black
by Gregory King, Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance, Swarthmore College for The Dance Journal photo by Bill Hebert Setting the tone for the Temple University
by Gregory King, Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance, Swarthmore College for The Dance Journal photo by Bill Hebert Note taking is something I do when
photo by Frank Bicking with Dancer, Andrea Romesser of The Koresh Dance School By Gregory King, Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance at Swarthmore College for
By Gregory King, Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance, Swarthmore College for The Dance Journal Photo by Robert Smee | Dancers: Kristin Edwards and Eric Churn
by Gregory King, Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance, Swarthmore College for The Dance Journal I remember auditioning for New York University’s Tisch School before having
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