Studio Stories: Reminiscing on Twin Cities Dance with Duncan Schultz - Season 10, Episode 123

Duncan C. Schultz, born and raised just outside the Twin Cities
in Minnesota, received his early dance training at Metro Dance
Center. After completing his B.A. in Dance at the University of
Minnesota, Twin Cities he worked with Mathew Janczewski’s ARENA
Dances, Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad’s BodyCartography Project
and Toni Pierce-Sands and Uri Sands’ TU Dance.

While in the United States, he has had the privilege of working
with choreographers Dwight Rhoden, Alonzo King, Gioconda Barbuto,
Camille A. Brown and Gregory Dolbashian. Following his time
working in the Twin Cities, he moved to Kaiserslautern, Germany
to work at the Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern under the direction of
James Sutherland. Currently he is a member at the GöteborgsOperan
Danskompani in Sweden with Artistic Director Katrín
Hall. 

While in Europe, he has created and performed works by Sharon
Eyal, Damien Janet, Crystal Pite, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Maxine
Doyle, Alexander Ekman, Ohad Naharin, Roy Assaf, and Marina
Mascarell to name a few. He received the Sage Award for Dance in
2014 as an Outstanding Performer and in 2016 as the
Hoffnungsträger (Bearer of Hope) by TANZ Jahrbuch in Germany.