Roderick George

A native of Houston, Texas, George studied dance at Ben Stevenson’s Houston Ballet Academy as well as in programs including The Alvin Ailey School, Miami City Ballet, and LINES Professional Program. In 2007, he moved abroad to work with Ballett Basel/Theater Basel, and appeared with the Goteborg Operan DansKompani before joining The Forsythe Company in Frankfurt, Germany. George later founded his own company, kNonAme Artist, in Berlin. He now resides in New York City.

George’s company, kNonAme Artist, is a collective that strives to use art as a form of protest and a healing method to find agency. The company made their Jacob’s Pillow debut in 2024, performing two works by Roderick George: an adaptation of Venom for the Pillow’s Leir Stage and an excerpt of an earlier work, Missing Fruit.

Roderick George has created work for leading arts institutions such as USC Glorya Kaufman, SUNY Purchase and Boston Conservatory at Berklee, while choreographing for professional companies such as Canadian Contemporary Dance Theatre and Los Angeles Contemporary Dance Company. George has collaborated with an array of notable choreographers, including William Forsythe, Peeping Tom, Jorma Elo, Jérôme Bel, Jacopo Godani, Richard Wherlock and Ohad Naharin.

George’s choreographic accomplishments have come through an extensive dance career performing with companies both in the United States and abroad, among them: Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, Ballett Basel in Switzerland, and The Forsythe Company in Frankfurt, Germany. Prior to George’s professional career, he was the bronze winner of the 2005 YouthAmerica Grand Prix in New York City, and was elected a Presidential Scholar under the YoungArts Foundation in 2003.