Springboard Danse

Our PLATFORM Showing is TONIGHT! 💥

We are so excited to witness excerpts of works by our inspiring 2026 Resident & Emerging Choreographers tonight at 5:30 in the George Rowland White Performance Studio!

These artists represent a diverse range of backgrounds and artistic perspectives, and we can’t wait for this peek into their creative worlds. 👀

🔺Resident Choreographers: to.campfire



🔸Emerging Choreographers:
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Learn more about the artists at the link in our bio!

SPRINGBOARD DANSE PITTSBURGH 2026 💥

We can’t believe we are just 2 weeks away from the 26th edition of our beloved summer project! We are so thrilled to be returning to Pittsburgh for our second year and could not be more excited for this extraordinary cohort of international artists to join us. Each of them brings their unique brilliance to the project as creators, performers, and collaborators, and we are so grateful they are spending part of their summer with Springboard.

See you soon, Pittsburgh! ⏳

SPRINGBOARD 2026 EMERGING CHOREOGRAPHER JULIA WEBER💥

Julia Weber is a Polish-born, New York–based choreographer and performer and a graduate of The Juilliard School. In 2025, she choreographed a new work for New York City Ballet through the New York Choreographic Institute and created a piece for the Traverse City Dance Project. She is a three-time recipient of Juilliard Choreographic Honors (2023, 2024, 2025), a recipient of the Hector Zaraspe Prize for Choreographic Promise, a multiple first-place honoree at the Polish Choreographic Competition (ZAiKS), and has received recognition from the Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage. Her choreography was also selected for the 24th Annual DUMBO Dance Festival.

We are so excited to welcome Julia to Springboard 2026 as an Emerging Choreographer, and can’t wait to see what she creates with our dancers this summer!

📸 Photo ©Karolina Gmurczyk

SPRINGBOARD 2026 EMERGING CHOREOGRAPHER HASSAN SYED💥

Hassan Imam Syed is a New York–born choreographer, performer, and educator whose work bridges commercial and concert dance forms. He received his MFA from Temple University and has trained extensively with Les Twins for over a decade, competing at events such as Juste Debout, Breakin Convention, and World of Dance. His choreography has been presented at ADF, NY Live Arts, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Apollo Theatre, and the Carmel Dance Festival, where he was named a choreographic fellow. He currently serves as Assistant Professor of Dance (tenure track) at California State University, Fullerton.

We can’t wait to see what Hassan brings to Springboard 2026! His ability to move between worlds makes him a truly exciting voice in the field!

SPRINGBOARD 2026 EMERGING CHOREOGRAPHER JIE-HUNG CONNIE SHIAU💥

Jie-Hung Connie Shiau is a dancer, choreographer, and teacher raised in Tainan, Taiwan. She has choreographed for Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, the New Choreographer Project in Taipei, SUNY Purchase College, Little Island Dance Festival, and Summer for the City at Lincoln Center. As a performer, she has worked with A.I.M by Kyle Abraham, Gallim Dance, Gibney Company, and is currently performing with Brian Brooks/Moving Company, Hélène Simoneau Danse, and Robyn Mineko Williams & Artists. She was also a Fall 2025 Artist in Residence at Baryshnikov Arts Center, and her dance films have screened at Dance on Camera and the Cyprus Dance Film Festival, where she received Best Choreographer.

We are so excited to welcome Connie to Springboard 2026 and to see the work she’ll make with our incredible dancers this summer!

📸 photo by Todd Rosenberg

SPRINGBOARD 2026 EMERGING CHOREOGRAPHER ASSAF SALHOV💥

Assaf Salhov is a New York City based choreographer, dancer, and Artistic Director of Le Ballet Fou. A graduate of SEAD Salzburg and SNDO Amsterdam, he is the creator of the Cardinal Movement methodology and has developed over fifteen original works presented internationally at venues including Jazz at Lincoln Center, The Shed, the LA Dance Festival, and the Suzanne Dellal Centre. He has also choreographed for Grammy Award–winning artist Silvana Estrada. Recent highlights include residencies at Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium and premieres at Movement Research, WestFest, and 92Y.

We are thrilled to have Assaf joining us for Springboard 2026, and know he will bring something truly extraordinary to the project and our dancers this summer!

SPRINGBOARD 2026 EMERGING CHOREOGRAPHER MATTHEW DESTEFANO💥

Matthew DeStefano is a Brooklyn-based artist and choreographer whose subversive, in-your-face work draws from underground counterculture and political discourse, blurring the line between the obscene and the refined. His intricate, fragmented movement vocabulary is at once formal and fractured, a call for both rebellion and unity. His work has been presented at the Museum of Arts and Design, Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, Ailey Citigroup Theatre, TEMP Art Space, and in the Classic Stage Company’s production of Othello.

We are thrilled to welcome Matthew to Springboard 2026! His bold artistic perspective will push our dancers, and we cannot wait to see what he creates!