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Artistic Director - August Tye
Tye is a “neoclassical choreographer of considerable skill with a complex formal method.”
Ballet Review
Ms. Tye began her dance training with former
Royal Winnipeg Ballet member, Therese Bullard in Kalamazoo MI.
She studied ballet, modern, highland dance, Irish dance, and performed
with The Kalamazoo Ballet Company where she danced lead roles
in Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, and The
Nutcracker. At the age of 15 she was awarded Best Young Choreographer
through Regional Dance America. Ms. Tye is a two-time recipient
of the Monticello choreographers award which has garnered her
invitations to choreograph on companies throughout the country.
In 1991 Tye moved to Chicago and trained at the Joel Hall Dance
Center. While in Chicago Tye has danced with the Lyric Opera of
Chicago, the Joel Hall Dancers, Salt Creek Ballet, and Second
City Ballet. In 1993 Tye founded The Hyde Park School of Ballet,
now Hyde Park School of Dance, where she is the artistic director
and a principal instructor of ballet. In 1997 Tye founded Tyego
Dance Project, with her sister Aimee Tye as principal dancer.
Ms. Tye worked with the Lyric Opera of Chicago during the 2004-05
season as assistant choreographer to Patricia Birch on the world
premiere of Robert Altman's A Wedding. In 2005 she was
appointed Ballet Mistress at the Lyric Opera of Chicago where
she has had the pleasure of working with choreographers Lucinda
Childs, Jane Comfort, Paul Curran, Andrew George, Philippe Giraudeau,
Wayne McGregor and Danny Pelzig. Ms. Tye was the revival choreographer
for the highly acclaimed 2007 Lyric Opera production of Dialogues
of the Carmelites, and assisted with remounts of Iphigenie
en Tauride at San Francisco Opera and Covent Garden. In 2008
Tye was the revival choreographer for the Lyric's production of
Eugene Onegin and next season looks forward to working
on the production of Manon and serving as choreographer
for The Pearl Fishers.