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Meet Derek Brockington

Resident Choreographer

Ballet Theatre Company is thrilled to welcome Derek Brockington as a Resident Choreographer for its 25th Anniversary Season. Derek is contracted to set a piece on the professionals that will premiere in BTC's Up Close winter performance. An excerpt will also be featured in Up Close Fall. Derek will travel in from NYC to work with the company professionals throughout the Season.


Bio

Brockington was born in Chicago, IL and raised in Holland, MI. He started his training at the Dance Asylum and moved to Grand Rapids Ballet School, Blue Lake Fine Arts, and attended Interlochen Arts Academy for his high school. Attended summer intensives at Ballet West and Pennsylvania Ballet Summer Intensives. Professional Experience: Dance Theatre of Harlem (sixth season), Cincinnati Ballet, Grand Rapids Ballet. Repertoire includes works by Claudia Schreier, Stanton Welch, George Balanchine, Robert Garland, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, Nacho Duato, William Forsythe and Darrell Grand Moultrie. He has choreographed for Columbia Ballet Collaborative, Ballet Theatre Company, and Dance Theatre of Harlem. Along with DTH’s Alexandra Hutchinson, he coordinates DTH social media.

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