Studio Stories: Reminiscing on Twin Cities Dance with Duncan Schultz - Season 10, Episode 123

Duncan C. Schultz, born and raised just outside the Twin Cities in Minnesota, received his early dance training at Metro Dance Center. After completing his B.A. in Dance at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities he worked with Mathew Janczewski’s ARENA Dances, Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad’s BodyCartography Project and Toni Pierce-Sands and Uri Sands’ TU Dance.While in the United States, he has had the privilege of working with choreographers Dwight Rhoden, Alonzo King, Gioconda Barbuto, Camille A. Brown and Gregory Dolbashian. Following his time working in the Twin Cities, he moved to Kaiserslautern, Germany to work at the Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern under the direction of James Sutherland. Currently he is a member at the GöteborgsOperan Danskompani in Sweden with Artistic Director Katrín Hall. While in Europe, he has created and performed works by Sharon Eyal, Damien Janet, Crystal Pite, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Maxine Doyle, Alexander Ekman, Ohad Naharin, Roy Assaf, and Marina Mascarell to name a few. He received the Sage Award for Dance in 2014 as an Outstanding Performer and in 2016 as the Hoffnungsträger (Bearer of Hope) by TANZ Jahrbuch in Germany.