Dianne McIntyre
Dianne McIntyre has a career spanning five decades with choreography for dance, theatre, television, film and opera.
A 2022 Dance Magazine Award Honoree, a 2023 Martha Hill Lifetime Achievement Award, United States Artists Fellowship, and Doris Duke Artist Award recipient. She has choreographed scores of concert dances, four Broadway shows, two operas, 35 regional theatre productions, three films, three television productions, and created five original full-length dance dramas.
Her company of dancers and musicians, Sounds in Motion toured extensively and her Harlem studio was a central hub of creative activity. Companies performing her work include Dance Theatre of Harlem, GroundWorks DanceTheater, DCDC.
She has taught at American Dance Festival, Bates Dance Festival and Jacob’s Pillow where she is the co-director with Risa Steinberg of the Hicks Choreography Fellowship Program. McIntyre’s other honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, three Bessies. Her new work “In the Same Tongue” premiered at Walker Art Center October, 2023 with the New York premiere at Apollo’s Victoria Theater April 2024.
McIntyre has received two honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degrees: from SUNY Purchase and from Cleveland State University. A BFA in Dance from the Ohio State University, her mentors include Elaine Gibbs Redmond and Gus Solomons Jr.
