Jonathan Royse Windham, a Colorado native, has a BFA from the State University of New York at Purchase, concentrating in ballet, and after spent a season with American Repertory Ballet. Following ARB he worked with Gallim Dance touring the continental US as well as Canada and Europe, and was featured on the Fall for Dance advertisements appearing across New York City in 2010. He was named one of Dance Magazines “25 to Watch” for 2013. In addition, He has worked with the Metropolitan Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Deutsches Nationaltheater and Staatskapelle Weimar, Santa Fe Opera, Company XIV’s Nutcracker Rouge, KAMEA Dance Company (Israel), The DASH Ensemble, and has professionally performed works by Twyla Tharp, Roman Oller, Itzik Galli, and Sidi Larbi. Jonathan was in Fiddler on the Roof on Broadway as part of the original revival company, choreography by Hofesh Shechter.
His choreography has been shown throughout the USA, at Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival, multiple times at Dixon Place, Dancers Responding to AIDS at the Cedar Lake Theater (NYC), the American Repertory Ballet choreography workshop, Philadelphia Fringe Festival, The Staller Center at Stonybrook, South Orange Performing Arts Center, Center for Performance Research, The Hartt Conservatory, Contemporary Dance Wyoming, and is a founding choreographer and former curator at the Current Sessions NYC. He recently premiered a solo in Lübeck, Germany as part of the TanzOrtNord festival that appeared in Ankara, Turkey’s 5th SOLO Contemporary Dance Festival.
Teaching and guest teaching credits include; The Martha Graham School, University of Michigan, University of the Arts in Philadelphia, SUNY Potsdam, SUNY Oswego, Skidmore College, Houston School for the Performing Arts, Goucher College, Dancewave Brooklyn, Capezio Peridance Center, Deutsche Oper Berlin company ballet class, The Center for Activities in English (Berlin), as well as substitute teaching at Tanzfabrik.