Doug Letheren
Performer
Doug is from New Hampshire USA, and is a graduate of The Juilliard School. He danced with Mikhail Baryshnikov’s Hell’s Kitchen Dance before joining the Batsheva Dance Company, where he worked with Ohad Naharin and Sharon Eyal from 2007 – 2012. Doug was then a founding member of Sharon’s company, L-E-V, until 2015, and danced with the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch from 2016 – 2019. He has also performed with the GoteborgsOperansDanskompani, Alan Lucien Øyen’s Winterguests, Aszure Barton, Adam Linder, Ella Rothschild, and in films such as Georgia Parris’ Mari for the BBC, and Apart and Voyeur, collaborations with dancer Silas Henriksen, filmmaker Cecilie Semec, and the Norwegian Opera and Ballet. Doug has been a choreographic assistant to Sharon Eyal, Adam Linder, and Bobbi Smith for companies such as Netherlands Dance Theater, Royal Swedish Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet, and Ballet de Lorraine. He is a recipient of the 2007 Movado Future Legends Award, nominated by Mikhail Baryshnikov, and a 2019 “Der Faust” German Theater Prize nominee for Dancer of the Year. Doug joined Kidd Pivot in 2018.
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