Prof. Isaac Spencer

Isaac Spen­cer, born 1982 in Mas­sa­chu­setts, U.S.A., is a dan­cer, tea­cher, rehe­ar­sal di­rec­tor and cho­reo­gra­pher. He gra­dua­ted as bal­let ma­jor from Wal­nut Hill School for the Arts in 2000 and then stu­di­ed at the Ju­il­li­ard School un­der the di­rec­tion of Ben­ja­min Harkar­vy and Law­rence Rho­des. He was the re­ci­pi­ent of the Princess Grace Award in 2003, and ear­ned his Ba­che­lor of Fine Arts in 2004.

He joi­ned Hub­bard Street Dance Chi­ca­go un­der the di­rec­tion of Jim Vin­cent. Dance Ma­ga­zi­ne na­med him one of the “25 to Watch” in 2006. That year he mo­ved to Stock­holm to join Cull­berg Bal­let un­der the di­rec­tion of Jo­han In­ger, then Anna Grip, whe­re he held a per­ma­nent con­tract. He was in­vi­ted to dance with Gö­te­borgs Operans Dans­kom­pa­ni led by Adol­phe Bin­der for the sea­son 2013/14. Sin­ce then, Isaac is an in­de­pen­dent dance ar­tist and con­ti­nues to dance and per­form in his own pro­duc­tions and with others.

He has fre­quent­ly worked at SEAD in Salz­burg, tea­ching bal­let, men­to­ring, and sta­ging re­per­toire. He tea­ches for com­pa­nies, gi­ves pro­fes­sio­nal trai­ning in bal­let and con­tem­pora­ry, and leads work­shops. He co-autho­red the pu­bli­ca­ti­on “Men­tor­ship Tool­box” fol­lo­wing the 3-part “Think Tank on Men­tor­ship” in­itia­ted by SITE in Stock­holm and MARC in Skå­ne in 2018/19. In fall 2019 and 2020 he was rehe­ar­sal di­rec­tor at Norrd­ans in Swe­den. From Sep­tem­ber 2021 he was in­te­rim pro­fes­sor of bal­let tech­ni­ques at the Frank­furt Uni­ver­si­ty of Mu­sic and Per­forming Arts and from Sep­tem­ber 2024 he was ap­poin­ted pro­fes­sor of bal­let tech­ni­ques.