Claudia Schreier

Claudia Schreier has choreographed, directed, and produced for dance, opera, and film across the U.S. and internationally. Based in New York City, she is the Choreographer in Residence at the Atlanta Ballet and has been commissioned by institutions including the Boston Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Miami City Ballet, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Vail Dance Festival, Guggenheim Works & Process, Juilliard Opera, ABT Studio Company, and New York Choreographic Institute.

Schreier is a recipient of the Princess Grace Award for Choreography, Dance/NYC Dance Advancement Fund Grant, Lotos Foundation Prize for Dance, and Suzanne Farrell Dance Prize, and she was a Virginia B. Toulmin Fellow at the Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU. She served as a choreographer and co-artistic director for Juilliard Opera’s premiere of Dido and Aeneas and international tour to Opera Holland Park in London and Opéra Royal de Versailles, as well as for the premiere of the opera-ballet The Lost Music of Auschwitz in London. Her live performance and film collaboration with visual artist Rashid Johnson, The Hikers, has been presented throughout the U.S., Mexico, and Israel.

Schreier has contributed to programs at the White House, Jazz at Lincoln Center, and the Kennedy Center, including the Kennedy Center Honors. Her work is the subject of two documentaries, including the Emmy Award-winning “Dancing on the Shoulders of Giants” (PBS Capital Region). She presented her TEDx talk, “Thinking On Your Feet,” at Columbia University in 2018. She has been featured by The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, BBC News, ABC News, NBC News, Marie Claire, and ELLE. Schreier is a graduate of Harvard University.