Riedel Dance Theater

We, Riedel Dance Theater, are storytellers through dance. With music, movement, and drama we bring our stories to life. Be they comedic, tragic, narrative or poetic, our dances are visually striking, innately musical, emotionally resonant, and pyschologically complex. Jonathan Riedel (Artistic Director, Choreographer) began choreographing professio... nally in 1996 with his first of several pieces for the Limón Dancers Choreography Project. In 2002, he staged his breakaway hit, The Unsightful Nanny, on the Limón Dance Company, and in 2003 he founded Riedel Dance Theater, presenting its inaugural season in NYC and Italy. His work quickly became known for its taut, intelligent humor and poignant dramatic power. DanceView Times proclaimed it "brilliant," "profoundly moving," and having "an ingenuity and timing that would make Petipa jealous." He was the first choreographer to professionally stage Erik Satie's controversial Uspud: Un Ballet Cretién. He has since created additional works for Limón, the Albany Berkshire Ballet, the Purchase Dance Company, Pace University's Commercial Dance Program, the Yard, Good Moves Dance Consort. He also developed choreography and character movement for the video game Godessia, produced by Artware. His solo The Angel has been integrated into AHRCs (The Association for the Help of Retarded Children) curriculum for dance developed by Carolyn Adams for students with autism. Jonathans work has been presented at such prestigious venues as the Kennedy Center, The Joyce Theater, Joyce SoHo, The Egg (Albany), Fringe NYC, and the PAC at Purchase. A native of Rye, NY, he began dancing at the age of 17 and graduated Magna Cum Laude from the Conservatory of Dance at Purchase College. He prospered in a career with the Limón Dance Company from 1996 to 2006, touring globally and performing works by such renowned artists as Doris Humphrey, Antony Tudor, Donald McKayle, Murray Louis, Jr Kylin, Lar Lubovitch, Doug Varone, and Mark Haim. He has also been featured in many of Jose Limón's masterpieces ...Read More