Sean Curran: podcast appearances and interviews

Seán Curran is an American dancer and choreographer based in New York City. He began dancing as a boy in Belmont, Massachusetts, learning traditional Irish step dancing, which sparked his early interest in performing arts. Curran has performed with New York’s Danspace Project and was a lead dancer with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. He was also an original member of the New York cast of STOMP, performing in the show for four years. As a solo artist, Curran created and presented works that have been showcased in the United States, Sweden, and France at the EXIT Festival. He graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and now serves as Chair of the Department of Dance there. Curran has extensive teaching experience at institutions such as the American Dance Festival, Harvard Summer Dance Center, Bates Dance Festival, and The Boston Conservatory, among others. In 1997, he founded the Seán Curran Company, which has performed across the United States and internationally in countries including France, Germany, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkmenistan. Notable productions include Art/Song/Dance, premiered at the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in 2004 and later at the Joyce Theatre in New York. The Company also presented works inspired by Dante’s Inferno and explored existential philosophies in its performances. Curran's work with opera includes choreography for companies such as Opera Theatre of St. Louis, San Francisco Opera, Opera Montreal, New York City Opera, and the Metropolitan Opera. His Broadway choreography credits include James Joyce’s The Dead. Recognized for his contributions, Curran received the Bessie Award for best New York Dance and Performance in 1985 and has been awarded fellowships by the New York Foundation for the Arts in 1998 and 2002.