Kyle Marshall

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Kyle Marshall is a choreographer, performer, teacher and artistic director of Kyle Marshall Choreography (KMC), a dance company that sees the dancing body as a container of history, an igniter of social reform and a site of celebration.

Since inception in 2014, KMC has performed at venues including: The Joyce Theater, Chelsea Factory, BAM Next Wave Festival NJPAC, The Shed, Little Island, and Roulette. Kyle has received choreographic and dance film commissions from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Baryshnikov Arts Center, "Dance on the Lawn" Montclair's Dance Festival, Harlem Stage and Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. National touring has included: Jacob’s Pillow Inside/Out (Beckett, MA), FringeArts, (Philadelphia), Bickford Theater/Morris Museum (NJ) and New World Center (Miami). Marshall has been recognized with a 2018 NY Dance and Performance Juried Bessie Award, a 2020 Dance Magazine Harkness Promise Award, and a 2020 Bessie Honoree for his revival of Colored. He has also received choreographic fellowships from Princeton University, Center for Ballet and the Arts at New York University, and residencies from the Monira Foundation, Jacob’s Pillow, and Bethany Arts Community.

As an educator, Marshall is currently an adjunct professor at New York University’s Open Arts Program and has been a guest artist at Rutgers University, Ailey/Fordham University, Eugene Lang/New School and Sarah Lawerence College. He has engaged young artists through creative workshops at Operation Unite NY, Bloomfield College, and New Jersey High Schools including Bayonne, County Prep, and Trenton Central. As a performer, Marshall was a member of the Trisha Brown Dance Company, doug elkins choreography etc., and Tiffany Mills Company. He is a graduate of Rutgers University with a BFA in Dance and currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.

In his first Pillow Lab, Kyle Marshall, director and choreographer of Kyle Marshall Choreography embarked on the ambitious Julius Eastman Trilogy, a series of dances embodying the music and legacy of Black queer minimalist composer Julius Eastman.