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Director-Choreographer-Educator-Lecturer
William Whitener performed worldwide and on Broadway with The Joffrey Ballet, Twyla Tharp Dance, Bob Fosse's Dancin', New York City Opera and Martha Clarke's Garden of Earthly Delights. He choreographed over sixty dances for Boston Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Kansas City Ballet, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal, Ballet Hispanico, Seattle Repertory Theater, Seattle Opera and John Curry's Ice Theatre. He has also created dances for stage and television for Ann Reinking, Tommy Tune, Bill Irwin and Faith Prince and staged the debut of American Ballroom Theater at The Kennedy Center and BAM. Mr. Whitener has set Twyla Tharp's ballets in the U.S and France and assisted Mr. Robbins with pre-production for Jerome Robbins' Broadway. He served as Artistic Director for the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal and Kansas City Ballet. He was an evaluator for the International Ballet Competition in Jackson, Mississippi, a jury member of Benois de la Danse and has served on a variety of panels including the NEA and Pew Charitable Trust Fund. He has taught ballet, modern dance and composition at Harvard University Summer Dance, Cornish College of the Arts, University of Washington, Pacific Northwest Ballet and was the Director of Dance at Concord Academy.
Mercy of the Elements
Choreography: William Whitener Dancers: Tempe Ostergren and Alexander Peters Kansas City Ballet 
Change of Heart
Choreography: William Whitener Dancer: DeeAnna Hiett Wylliams/Henry Contemporary Dance Company Blue in Green
Choreography : William Whitener Dancer : Eric J. Miles Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal |
2018
New York Theatre Ballet
Choreographer
Wings/Petroushskates
Music by Joan Tower
World Premiere: March 16th & 17th, 2018
92nd Street Y
New York, NY
2017-present
New York Dance Project, Founders Davis Robertson and Nicole DuffyRobertson
Guest teacher
2018
NYU Tisch School of the Arts
Adjunct Dance Faculty
Spring Semester
2018-
Jessica Lang Dance
Company Teacher
2017
Jessica Lang Dance
Company Teacher
2017
New York Theatre Ballet
Summer School, Guest Choreographer
2017
Peoria Ballet
Summer School, Guest Teacher
2017
The Joffrey Ballet School, NYC Summer School faculty and choreographer
2017
New York University Tisch School of the Arts, Guest Faculty
2016-2017
The Joffrey Ballet Concert Group, New York City Choreographer.
Marymount Manhattan College Choreographer, Mentor for Student Choreographers.
Ballet Academy East, New York City, Choreographer.
2016
Moderator for Audience Architects panel, Chicago Illinois.
"Moving Dialogs: Women in the Director's Chair."
Panelists include: Virginia Johnson, Artistic Director, Dance Theatre of Harlem.
2016-
Member of The Bessie Awards Selection Committee, NYC.
2016
Guest Ballet teacher, Peoria Ballet.
2016
Marymount Manhattan College, Spring semester: Mentor for Student Choreographers.
2015
Presenter for Martha Hill Awards Gala
2015
Member of Board of Directors of Mark DeGarmo Dance Focusing on providing dance for Lower East Side Public School students (K-5) .
2015-
Teaching and choreographing for The Joffrey Ballet Concert Group, NYC.
2015
Adjudicating student dances at Hunter College, CUNY.
William Whitener is represented by Abrams Artists Agency
Sarah L. Douglas Vice President Literary Division
Abrams Artists Agency
275 Seventh Ave. 26th floor
New York NY 10001
sdouglas@dandkartists.com
Phone: (646) 486-4600
Fax: (646) 486-2358
Abrams Artists Agency
275 Seventh Ave. 26th floor
New York NY 10001
sdouglas@dandkartists.com
Phone: (646) 486-4600
Fax: (646) 486-2358