Allan Kinzie LBT Artistic Advisor

ALLAN KINZIE accepted a position as Artist in Residence at Southern Methodist University in 2003 where he set two original creations; Scenes de Ballet and Trauma into Light. Prior to this appointment, he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Oklahoma, Ballet Master and Choreographer for the Oklahoma Festival Ballet and Instructor at Walnut Hill School for the Arts and the Boston Ballet School. His choreographies have been presented in Europe as well as in the United States with a focus on contemporary composers and movement invention. As a performer, he danced leading rolls with Boston Ballet, Chicago City Ballet, Ballet Theatre Francais de Nancy, and the Dallas Ballet. Mr Kinzie was accepted to three international competitions and has toured internationally to fifteen countries in over one hundred performances with Rudolph Nureyev in his production of Don Quixote. His television credits include guest starring as the Prince in The Sleeping Beauty for the 1978, Christmas at Walt Disney World Special on NBC.