PHOTO BY / KENNY JOHNSON

TRISTIAN GRIFFIN

Tristian is a graduate from Texas Christian University with a BFA in Ballet and has performed professionally with Garth Fagan Dance and Wylliams/Henry Contemporary Dance Company. He was Visiting Professor of Practice at the University of Kansas from 2021-2022. In 2023, Tristian was selected a Jacob's Pillow Choreography Fellow. Supported with an artist residency at Lawrence Arts Center, Tristian started Tristian Griffin Dance Company in 2018. The company strives to engage with the audience through intimate narratives and remodeling of classical choreographic forms through strikingly athletic and inventive movement.

“Griffin’s curvilinear vocabulary in this piece felt a bit more classical and less abstract than that in prior works of his I’ve seen (such as The Missing Peace, 2022) – yet no less intentional and no less satisfying.”

—Review by Kathryn Boland of Dance Informa