Photo: Steven Trumon Gray
(LT)Kevin Fay has a B.A. in Dance and Communication Studies from Northwestern University. During his time in Chicago, Kevin trained in dance at Northwestern, Hubbard Street Dance Center, and The Ruth Page Foundation School of Dance, where he performed with Civic Ballet of Chicago.
Since leaving Chicago, Kevin has danced with Dayton Ballet in Ohio, Dana Tai Soon Burgess & Company in Washington, D.C., and Kyra Jean Green, Spenser Theberge, Daniele Desnoyers (Le Carré des Lombes), and Jakub Truszkowski (Rosas) at Springboard Danse Montreal 2009 and 2016. As a freelance artist in New York City for seven years, he performed and toured nationally and internationally with various artists and choreographers. While in New York, Kevin also trained regularly with Janet Panetta, taught for the Brooklyn Music School, City Center/Ballet Academy East, and Joffrey Ballet School, and he collaborated with Alexandra Wells on the Movement Invention Project at Baryshnikov Arts Centre as well as new opera productions at The Metropolitan Opera with Itzik Galili, Bard College SummerScape with Marjorie Folkman, and Washington National Opera with Ben Wright.
Kevin moved to Brussels, Belgium in 2016, and he's worked from there as a freelance performer with Veli Lehtovaara, Éric Minh Cuong Castaing, Eleanor Bauer, Marc Vanrunxt - Kunst/Werk, La Monnaie/De Munt, Fabrice Samyn, and Olga de Soto. He also studies voice with Fabienne Seveillac and works independently as a writer, editor, administrator, and transcriber. In September 2020, Kevin received a scholarship from the Flemish Authorities to conduct a research project on the subjects of masculinity, feminism, language, and the body. With support from RoSa vzw, wpZimmer, Voo?uit, CAMPO, BUDA, Tanzquartier Wien (AT), and the research platform bitės (LT), Kevin offers open performative reading circles in workshops called 'conversing with masculinity'.
Since leaving Chicago, Kevin has danced with Dayton Ballet in Ohio, Dana Tai Soon Burgess & Company in Washington, D.C., and Kyra Jean Green, Spenser Theberge, Daniele Desnoyers (Le Carré des Lombes), and Jakub Truszkowski (Rosas) at Springboard Danse Montreal 2009 and 2016. As a freelance artist in New York City for seven years, he performed and toured nationally and internationally with various artists and choreographers. While in New York, Kevin also trained regularly with Janet Panetta, taught for the Brooklyn Music School, City Center/Ballet Academy East, and Joffrey Ballet School, and he collaborated with Alexandra Wells on the Movement Invention Project at Baryshnikov Arts Centre as well as new opera productions at The Metropolitan Opera with Itzik Galili, Bard College SummerScape with Marjorie Folkman, and Washington National Opera with Ben Wright.
Kevin moved to Brussels, Belgium in 2016, and he's worked from there as a freelance performer with Veli Lehtovaara, Éric Minh Cuong Castaing, Eleanor Bauer, Marc Vanrunxt - Kunst/Werk, La Monnaie/De Munt, Fabrice Samyn, and Olga de Soto. He also studies voice with Fabienne Seveillac and works independently as a writer, editor, administrator, and transcriber. In September 2020, Kevin received a scholarship from the Flemish Authorities to conduct a research project on the subjects of masculinity, feminism, language, and the body. With support from RoSa vzw, wpZimmer, Voo?uit, CAMPO, BUDA, Tanzquartier Wien (AT), and the research platform bitės (LT), Kevin offers open performative reading circles in workshops called 'conversing with masculinity'.
