Tyler Gilstrap

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Tyler Gilstrap (Danville, VA) earned her BFA in Dance from Southern Methodist University. She was a founding member of Battleworks Dance Company (2001-2010), under the direction of Robert Battle. In 2014, she was the associate choreographer for the Sochi Winter Olympic Games Opening Ceremony.  Tyler has also been the assistant choreographer for other major events such as the film 'Love And Other Drugs', the Italian San Remo TV Award shows, and the opening ceremony for Pope John Paul II at Yankee Stadium. In 2019, she was the movement director for the "Infinite Hotel" as part of the Prototype Festival NYC. Over the years she has choreographed music videos for innovative musical artists such as Andrew McMahon, Son Lux, Skyes, FireHorse and SENIT. Tyler founded the creative production company TunanuT in 2014 , which has created events for Panorama Music Festival, Figment Festival NYC, The Blue Bus Project, Big Data's fall tour 2015, Un(Scene) Art show, Ballroom Marfa, The Feast, and The Windmill Factory. As a dancer, Tyler has been featured in such films as 'Across the Universe’, 'The Wackness,' and the Italian TV show 'Amici.' She has been a guest artist with the Bavarian State Opera, Irish Modern Dance Theater, The Windmill Factory, Azure Barton, New York Theater Ballet, Corbin Dances, and Amy Marshall Dance Company. She has taught improv, contemporary, and modern dance in Russia, Germany, Hungary, Italy and throughout the USA. She has been on faculty at Montclair State University, Joffrey Ballet School, New York Dance Project, Frank Sinatra High School(NYC) and Peridance Capezio. Her choreography has been staged on New York Dance Project, Wgruv Dance Company, Joffery Ballet School, Joffery Jazz and Contemporary, The Fine Arts Center in Greenville, SC, Converse College, Montclair State University, Frank Sinatra High School, American Ballet Theatre's Summer Arts Program, Peridance Capezio, and the Academy of Performing Arts in Pécs, Hungary. 

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