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” (Washington Post) was an immediate sensation with both critics and audiences alike.

The company went on to perform 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, 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).

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 a 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 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. From there, Trey McIntyre Project again toured to more than 25 cities across the US 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 is lined up to be another sustainable success with the company touring across the United States and the world. Trey McIntyre will create a new work celebrating Basque Culture premiering at the pentennial Jaialdi Festival in Boise, ID then continuing onto Jacob’s Pillow for Trey McIntyre Project’s fourth appearance in six years. 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 across the United States to venues such as the Hollywood Bowl, Gainesville, FL, and Boise, ID.

Trey McIntyre, artistic director

Trey McIntyre, one of the most sought-after choreographers working today, launched his critically-acclaimed Trey McIntyre Project in 2008. He has created a canon of over 80 works for companies such as Stuttgart Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, and New York City Ballet. McIntyre has served as Resident Choreographer for Oregon Ballet Theatre, Ballet Memphis, and The Washington Ballet. His grants and awards include two choreographic fellowships from the NEA, a Choo-San Goh Award for Choreography, and he was named one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” in 2001. McIntyre studied at North Carolina School of the Arts and Houston Ballet Academy.