Silas Riener, Lewis Center for the Arts

HEARST CHOREOGRAPHER-IN-RESIDENCE NAMED IN 22-23

About

Silas Riener grew up in Washington DC. He graduated from Princeton University with a degree in Comparative Literature and certificates in Creative Writing and Dance. He has worked with Chantal Yzermans, Takehiro Ueyama, Christopher Williams, Jonah Bokaer, Rebecca Lazier's TERRAIN, and Tere O'Connor. Since 2010 he has collaborated with poet Anne Carson and choreographer Rashaun Mitchell, with whom he continues to develop new projects. In 2011 he choreographed a site-specific performance at the Storefront for Art and Architecture with the Harrison Atelier, and will premiere a new work in February 2012 at The Invisible Dog. He was a member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company from November 2007 until its closure at the end of 2011. While performing with MCDC, Riener completed his MFA in Dance at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. He has taught workshops and techniques classes at Concord Academy SummerStages and throughout Turkey at several universities. He has taught on the faculty at NYU's Playwrights Horizons, Gallim Dance's Clinton Hill Arts Center, and Princeton University.