Spenser Theberge
Contemporary Choreographer/Director, The School at Jacob's Pillow
Spenser Theberge is a performer, creator, and educator based in Los Angeles, California. His work is centered in multidisciplinary practice, including the use of dance, theater, text, film, design, and pedagogy to create genre-defying, innovative performance, visual art, and educational environments. His commissions and collaborations span a range of artists and organizations including The Broad Museum, Taylor Swift, Gibney Dance Company, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, LA Dance Project, MOCA Geffen, The Juilliard School, NAVEL, Savage x Fenty, Ben Platt, The New York Times Magazine, The Today Show, LAX Festival, and Gothenburg Opera Dance Company, among others.
Theberge is the inaugural Artist In Residence at The Juilliard School of Dance, along with partner Jermaine Spivey, as well as an Artist In Residence at USC’s Glorya Kaufman School of Dance, and a former faculty member at the California Institute for the Arts. He has been an invited guest educator at the National Theater of Taiwan, BE Moving, Nuova Officina della Danza, CLI Conservatory, Hochschule fur Musik und Darstellende Kunst, and Springboard Danse, among others.
He has performed the works of the world’s most influential choreographers as a former dancer with Nederlands Dans Theater and The Forsythe Company, and has been a guest artist with Kidd Pivot, Gothenburg Opera Dance Company, the ARIAS Company, and Astrid Boons. He is a YoungArts winner, a Presidential Scholar in the Arts, and a Princess Grace Award winner, as well as a proud graduate of the Vancouver School of Arts and Academics and The Juilliard School.