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Kevin Fay (he/him/his) is a French-American artist with a BA in Dance and Communication Studies from Northwestern University. During his time in Chicago, Kevin trained in dance at Northwestern, the Hubbard Street Dance Center, and the Ruth Page Foundation School of Dance, where he performed classical and contemporary repertory with the Civic Ballet of Chicago.
Since leaving Chicago, Kevin has danced with Dayton Ballet in Ohio and Dana Tai Soon Burgess & Company in Washington, D.C. Later, as a freelance artist in New York City, he performed and toured nationally and internationally with various artists and choreographers.
While in New York, Kevin trained regularly with Janet Panetta, taught at the Brooklyn Music School, City Center/Ballet Academy East, and the Joffrey Ballet School, and collaborated with Alexandra Wells on the Movement Invention Project at the Baryshnikov Arts Center. He also had the pleasure of working on new opera productions at the Metropolitan Opera (Choreography: Itzik Galili), Bard College SummerScape (Choreography: Marjorie Folkman), and Washington National Opera (Choreography: Ben Wright).
Kevin relocated to Brussels, Belgium in 2016, and from there he has worked on various productions with Veli Lehtovaara, Éric Minh Cuong Castaing, Eleanor Bauer & Chris Peck, Marc Vanrunxt, La Monnaie/De Munt, Fabrice Samyn, Manon Santkin, Adrian Kurth, Olga de Soto, Marco Berrettini, and Sebastiano Sing. He has also contributed to various publications as a writer, editor, and transcriber.
In September 2020, Kevin received a year-long scholarship from the Flemish authorities to conduct a research project on masculinity, feminism, language, and choreography. With support from RoSa vzw, wpZimmer, C-Takt, BUDA, Schouwburg Kortrijk, Par Hasard x NTGent, KASK, Charleroi Danse – La Raffinerie, Liminal, Tanzquartier Wien (Austria), eindorf (Austria), ImPulsTanz ATLAS programme (Austria), CCN Mille Plateaux – La Rochelle (France), HONOLULU (France), and the research platform bitės (Lithuania), Kevin hosts conversing with masculinity workshops and is creating material for a performance that will premiere in Belgium in 2026.
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