BFA '17, Paul Morland, Dancing with MADBOOTS at The Joyce Theater, 2018
Congratulations to our Tisch Alumni BFA ’17 Paul Morland and BFA ’15 Stephanie Troyak for being highlighted in Dance Magazine’s 25 to Watch 2019! @dancemagazine We‘re so proud of both of you!
When Paul Morland dances, the very air molecules around him seem to vibrate. Whether he's immersed in MADBOOTS DANCE's aggressive, hyperphysical vocabulary or Gallim's syrupy, humanistic rituals, he tackles movement with a ferocious attack and an inexplicable elasticity. His calm, considered manner makes the flurry of motion spinning out from his zen center seem perfectly natural. Some dancers seem to bend time; he bends space, as well...Read the full article at Dance Magazine.
—Courtney Escoyne
BFA '15, Stephanie Troyak, in Pina Bausch's Seven Deadly Sins.
Stephanie Troyak brings the awkwardness of an ungainly colt to the soloist role in Pina Bausch's Seven Deadly Sins, a coveted part that she snagged in her first season with Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch. Her sprawling length blossoms into sweeping gestures of equal parts abandon and exactitude; her grit and acting chops are put to good use during the more disturbing sections of Bausch's psychological epic. "I feel at home in Pina's mix of theater and storytelling," says Troyak, a 24-year-old alum of the renowned Booker T. Washington High School for Performing and Visual Arts in Dallas....Read the full article at Dance Magazine.
-Nancy Wozny