Seán Curran

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Seán Curran is an American dancer and choreographer. Curran's dance company, the Seán Curran Company is based in New York.

As a boy in the Boston suburb of Belmont, Massachusetts, Curran began dancing by learning traditional Irish step dancing. Curran later spent four years as an original member of the New York cast of Stomp, performing in the show for four years. Curran has performed with New York’s Danspace Project and was a lead dancer Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company.

Curran is a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, where he now serves as a guest faculty member. Curran has also taught at the American Dance Festival, Harvard Summer Dance Center, Bates Dance Festival, and The Boston Conservatory.

Curran founded the Seán Curran Company in 1997. The Company premiered Art/Song/Dance, a collaboration Curran and the Broadway composer Ricky Ian Gordon, at the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in 2004.

For his performance in Secret Pastures, Curran received a New York Dance and Performance Bessie Award. The New York Foundation for the Arts awarded Curran a Choreographer’s Fellowship in both 1998 and 2002.