Debuting at the 2005 Vail International Dance Festival, the Trey McIntyre Project is a contemporary ballet company dedicated to spreading the art and culture of dance. The Trey McIntyre Project uses the inherent beauty of ballet vocabulary to create dances that authentically and clearly convey the emotion of life's journey while meaningfully engaging audiences in the experience of art. McIntyre's appealingly athletic brand of contemporary ballet has made him one of the most popular dancemakers in the United States. Nationally renowned for their fresh take on ballet, the company makes their return to Vail stages.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF TREY MCINTYRE PROJECT:
In July 2005, Trey McIntyre Project burst onto the national dance scene as a summer touring company with its debut performance at The Vail International Dance Festival. Trey McIntyre Project's “fresh and forward-thinking choreography” (The Washington Post) was an immediate sensation.
The company has performed at Jacob's Pillow and Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts, where they premiered works created during annual residencies at White Oak Plantation. Guided by Trey McIntyre's 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 (Mi Maison, and a new piece in 2011--collaborations with Preservation Hall Jazz Band), historic bluegrass music selections (Go Out) and folk music (Leatherwing Bat to Peter, Paul and Mary).
Trey McIntyre Project launched as a full-time, year-round company for Year 1: 2008-09. The company embarked on a 25-city tour across the United States and abroad from its new home in Boise, Idaho, with commissions from three presenting organizations and institutional support from The MAP Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts, M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust 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 to more than 25 cities across the US creating and performing the works of Trey McIntyre with debuts in 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 and its premiere at the pentennial Jaialdi Festival in Boise, Idaho. 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 collaboration Ma Maison. Together, Preservation Hall and TMP will premiere the work February 5, 2011 in New Orleans and continue touring together in select venues across the United States.
