KEVIN WYNN (Artistic Director) received his early training in Washington, D.C. at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts and continued his studies at Cal Arts and S.U.N.Y.  Purchase.  He was a soloist with the Jose Limon Dance Company and has worked with Jowale Willa Jo Zollar, Laurie Carlos, Vernon Reid and Living Colour, Dianne McIntyre, Sounds in Motion Dance Company, Mel Wong, Kazuko Hirabayashi, Daniel Nagrin and Jacques D’Amboise.

Wynn’s choreography has been performed at Holland Music and Dance Festival, International Dance Festival in Hong Kong, International Dance Festival in Taipei, Clark Center’s New Choreographers Series, UCLA, George Washington University, S.U.N.Y.  Purchase, Dance in Education Fund, Inc., Thelma Hill Performing Arts Center and the Harlem Cultural Council’s Symphony Space Series.  Wynn has received four NYSCA- supported grants in choreography for commissioned works for EBA Dance Company, Pick-Of-The-Crop Dance Company in Buffalo, and the Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble.  He has also received commissions from the Kristina de Chatel Dance Company of Holland, The Navarro Dance Theater in Milan, Italy, the Open End Dance Company in Rome, the Bat-Dor Dance School Ensemble in Tel Aviv, Israel, New York University, UCLA, Labco Dance Company, Edgeworks Dance Theater, 2nd Ave Dance Company (Tisch School of the Arts), Taos Dance Festival, Houston Met, and North Carolina School of the Arts.  New York City venues who have produced Wynn’s work include:  Movement Research, Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, Thelma Hill Performing Arts Series, Harlem Cultural Council, Downtown Cultural Arts Council, 14th Street “Y”, Educational Alliance Center, London Contemporary Dance Center, Joyce Theater’s Altogether Different Series, Danspace Project at St. Marks Church, Symphony Space, Ailey/Fordham B.F.A. program, and the Duke on 42nd Street.

”Even though my work emanates from a strong African-American sensibility, incorporating dynamic rhythm and energy changes, improvisational moorings and polyrhythmic intricacies, it also operates from a more formalist, pure dance compositional aesthetic.  Much of its dynamism and energy is born from the fusing of these two traditions.”

Wynn has completed residencies in Belgium, Italy, Germany, Holland, Israel, London, Asia, Trinidad, France, Scandinavia, and throughout the United States. 

Wynn is an Associate Professor of dance in the Conservatory of Dance at Purchase College, and is also on the faculty of the Alvin Ailey /Fordham University B.F.A.  Program.

“My work continues to deal with the persistence of the human spirit and idealism in a sexist, homophobic and racially troubled society, sustaining a complex dance subject in an un-dogmatic and even lyrical way.”