Michael Tracy

Michael Tracy, Artistic Director, was born in Florence and raised in New England. He began studying choreography in 1969 with Ray Cook and Alison Chase and began collaborating with the other directors of Pilobolus in 1970, graduating magna cum laude from Dartmouth College in 1973 with a BA in psychology. He has been one of Pilobolus' artistic directors since 1974 and in 1980 became the sole artistic director touring with Pilobolus, training, directing and performing with the company through 1987, a total of 14 years.

Since then he has continued to choreograph for and co-direct Pilobolus and also to set works on the Joffrey, Ohio, Hartford, Nancy (France) and Verona (Italy) ballet companies. In 1995 he choreographed Mozart's Magic Flute with John Eliot Gardiner, the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists, in a production that toured Parma, Ferrara, Lisbon, Amsterdam and London. In 1996 he choreographed the national tour production for the National Theater of the Deaf. Mr. Tracy teaches at Yale University.