VINCENT MCCLOSKEY

Vincent McCloskey is a Brooklyn based dancer and educator.  Born in Los Angeles, he began his dance training at the Washington School of Ballet.  He went on to study modern dance at Joseph Holmes Chicago Dance Theater, Joel Hall Dance Center, Chicago Academy for the Arts under the direction of Anna Paskevska, and at Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, where he was granted a Special Fellowship.  He studied on scholarship at the Joffrey Ballet School, and has trained with Carolyn Lord at the Construction Company.  As a performer, he has worked with such choreographers as Rebecca Lazier, Lucinda Childs, Mark Morris, Dusan Tynek, Ariane Anthony, Laura Scozzi, Sean Curran, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, Helen Pickett, Patricia Hoffbauer, Pam Tanowitz, and Vanessa Walters.  In 2015, he assisted Patricia Hoffbauer in the creation of a new work for the Barnard College dance department, and has helped Pam Tanowitz set work at the Kennedy Center, New York City Ballet, and on her own company. As a teacher, he has taught technique (both modern and ballet) and repertory at Rutgers, NYU, ADF’s winter intensive, the Taylor school, and the New School. Currently, he teaches at Barnard College and at Gibney Dance Center.