Claudia Schreier | Lost Keys
Claudia Schreier has choreographed, directed, and produced for dance, opera, and film across the U.S. and internationally. She is the Choreographer in Residence at Atlanta Ballet and has been commissioned by San Francisco Ballet, Miami City Ballet, Boston Ballet, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Vail Dance Festival, Juilliard Opera, and Guggenheim Works & Process, among others. Schreier is a recipient of the Princess Grace Award for Choreography, Dance/NYC Dance Advancement Fund Grant, Lotos Foundation Prize for Dance, and Suzanne Farrell Dance Prize, and she was the 2017 Virginia B. Toulmin Fellow for Women Choreographers at the Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU. Her live performance and film collaboration with visual artist Rashid Johnson, The Hikers, has been presented at the Aspen Art Museum, Hauser & Wirth NY, Storm King Art Center, and Museo Tamayo in Mexico City. Her film Places, commissioned by Miami City Ballet, was named a standout performance by The New York Times. Schreier served as choreographer and artistic co-director for Juilliard Opera's New York premiere of Dido and Aeneas and international tour to Opera Holland Park in London and Opéra Royal de Versailles. She has contributed to programs at the White House, Jazz at Lincoln Center, and the Kennedy Center, including the Kennedy Center Honors. Her work is the subject of two documentaries, most recently PBS’s Emmy Award-winning Dancing on the Shoulders of Giants (Capital Region). Schreier presented her TEDx talk, “Thinking On Your Feet,” at Columbia University in 2018. She has been featured by The New York Times, The Washington Post, BBC News, NPR, ABC News, NBC News, Dance Magazine, Pointe, Marie Claire, and ELLE.
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