Tony Powell

Dubbed "a 21st Century Renaissance Man" by the Washington Post, Powell is a choreographer, composer, painter, sculptor, photographer, film-maker, graphic designer, and writer. He is a 1995 graduate of the Juilliard School and directed his own company, "Tony Powell/Music & Movement," for tenyears. This native Washingtonian has won numerous awards from the Maryland State Arts Council for his choreography, and his music received the first-ever Metro DC Dance Award for Original Music.

He has written three orchestral scores for the internationally-renowned Parsons Dance Company, and he has created over 100 dances for his own company, as well as The Joffrey Ballet, dancers of the Washington Ballet, The Maryland Youth Ballet, Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago, Ballet Theatre of Maryland, The Manassas Dance Company, and Odyssey Dance Theater, among others. His most recent ballet (his second for this company) was premiered by Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago in Chicago's Millennium Park at the Harris Theater for Music & Dance October 27 & 28, 2006. He spent the first two weeks of November 2006 in Salt Lake City, Utah, creating his largest commissioned piece, Mea Culpa, for the 20 dancers of Odyssey Dance Theatre.