Stephen Ursprung

_dsc2031 STEPHEN URSPRUNG holds an MFA in Dance from Smith College.  He has presented his choreographic work at Brown University, Smith College, Boston University, the Bates Dance Festival, the American College Dance Festival, SpringWIDEOpen, the Astoria Dance Festival, Triskelion Arts, the MixMatch Festival, the Massachusetts Dance Festival, Green Space, and Boston Center for the Arts.  He's performed work by Paul Taylor, Pilobolus, and Monica Bill Barnes, choreographed for Columbia Records, performed in Cape Town, South Africa, and choreographed for the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival.  He has been on faculty at Smith College, where he taught Jazz, Tap, and Contemporary and at the University of Massachusetts Amherst where he taught advanced Jazz in the BFA program. Stephen currently creates work with NilsSprung Dance Project, Reject Dance Theatre, and 83 paperbirds and works as a freelance choreographer and educator throughout New York and New England.