Larry Keigwin, Artistic Director of Keigwin + Company, is a native Long Islander and graduate of Hofstra University where he received a BA in dance. Since then he has been choreographing and performing in an array of projects that have taken him from the Metropolitan Opera House, to downtown clubs to Broadway and back. From 1997-2000, he was the Associate Artistic Director of Dendy Dance & Theater, and received a Bessie Award for his performance in Dream Analysis. He has also danced in the companies of Robin Becker, Jane Comfort, John Jasperse, Doug Elkins, Zvi Gotheiner, Ben Munisteri, and David Rousseve. Keigwin + Company has been presented by Joyce SoHo, Joe's Pub, Symphony Space, The American Dance Festival, The Bates Dance Festival, Summerdance Santa Barbara, Jacob's Pillow Inside/Out, the Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, and DRA's Fire Island Dance Festival. Recent commissions include Hofstra University, Moving Arts Projects, California Institute of the Arts, NYU/Tisch School of the Arts, Zenon Dance Company, and Bates College. Recent Metropolitan Opera engagements include Doug Varone's Le Sacre du Printemps and Julie Taymor's The Magic Flute. In the area of musical theater Keigwin was the Associate Choreographer for the Radio City Rockette production Carnivale, the Off-Broadway musical The Wild Party, and performed in the Broadway show Dance of the Vampires. He is the creator of Keigwin Kabaret, a fusion of modern dance, vaudeville, and burlesque acts which is presented by the Public Theater at Joe's Pub and the Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater at Symphony Space.