Bruce McCormick is an educator, choreographer, performer and scholar. He earned his B.F.A. from The Juilliard School under the direction of Benjamin Harkarvy and his M.F.A. from the University of Washington, where he worked as Assistant Professor of
...MoreBruce McCormick is an educator, choreographer, performer and scholar. He earned his B.F.A. from The Juilliard School under the direction of Benjamin Harkarvy and his M.F.A. from the University of Washington, where he worked as Assistant Professor of Dance from 2015-2018. He recently joined the faculty of the University of Southern California Glorya Kaufman School of Dance as Assistant Professor of Practice. Originally from New Jersey, he trained with the Vineland Regional Dance Company and the Rock School of Pennsylvania Ballet, spending summers at the School of American Ballet, Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, Boston Ballet and as a private student of Maestro Héctor Zaraspe in Argentina and Ecuador. He performed in twelve countries on four continents as a member of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, the Bavarian State Ballet and the Bern Ballet, where he was a soloist and ballet master. He also served as the assistant artistic director of North Netherlands Dance and a guest rehearsal director with Ballet BC. Throughout his career, he danced works by many choreographers including George Balanchine, Stijn Celis, John Cranko, Nacho Duato, Mats Ek, William Forsythe, Jacopo Godani, Doris Humphrey, Zvi Gotheiner, Jirí Kylián, José Limón, Susan Marshall, Cathy Marston, Ohad Naharin, Marius Petipa, Crystal Pite, Twyla Tharp, Anthony Tudor and Doug Varone. In addition, he assisted choreographers Karole Armitage, Roy Assaf, Stijn Celis, Itzik Galili, Emanuel Gat, Cathy Marston, Andrea Miller, Emily Molnar, Matthew Neenan, Stephen Shropshire and Medhi Walerski, among others. McCormick has presented his own choreographic work in various venues throughout the Americas and Europe and has worked as a guest teacher in several companies. He also choreographed the opera Eugene Onegin for the Bern Municipal Theater and The Merry Widow for the Korea National Opera. His most recent festival credits include Against the Grain/Men in Dance, Dance Deck, the Seattle International Dance Festival and the ITS Festival in Amsterdam
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