Trey McIntyre has worked more than 30 years as a freelance choreographer, producing more than 100 pieces during his career. He was named one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” in 2001. In 2005, he founded his company, Trey McIntyre Project, creating over 23 original works on the company, as well as numerous film projects, interactive site specific works, and photography collections. He has worked with companies such as The Stuttgart Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Queensland Ballet, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, New York City Ballet, Oregon Ballet Theatre, The Washington Ballet, Ballet Memphis, and San Francisco Ballet. He has won numerous awards and honors such as the Choo San Goh Award for Choreography, a Lifetime Achievement Award from The National Society of the Arts and Letters, two personal grants for choreography from The National Endowment for the Arts, and is a United States Artist Fellow.
In 2019, he won the Isadora Duncan Award for Outstanding Achievement in Choreography for his work Your Flesh Shall be a Great Poem, created for San Francisco Ballet for their Unbound Festival. In September of 2024, he joined Los Angeles based company BODYTRAFFIC as Creative Partner. He is creating new work for the company on a regular basis and lends his vast experience in running an organization in an advisory capacity.
His feature-length documentary Gravity Hero premiered at the Dance on Camera Festival at Lincoln Center. The New York Times critic Alastair Macaulay said of Mclntyre, “…There’s a fertility of invention and a modernity of spirit here that are all Mr. Mclntyre’s own.” The Los Angeles Times wrote, “…There is indeed such a thing as genuine 21st century ballet, and it belongs more to this guy from Wichita than any of the over-hyped pretenders from England, France or Russia.”
