Modern-Horton
Guest Teacher

ILTON MYERS received his B.A. from the University of Missouri in Kansas City. He was a founding member, performer and assistant to the director Joyce Trisler Danscompany and has performed with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Fred Benjamin Dance Company, Walter Nicks and the Rondo Dance Company. Upon the death of Joyce Trisler in 1979, he became Artistic Director for the Joyce Trisler Danscompany until 1986.

As a choreographer his works are performed on many other companies such as: the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater & Repertory Company, New Danish Dance Theater, Ballet Stagium in Brasil, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Company, Dallas Black Dance Theater and David Taylor Dance. He also choreographed for Jesse Norman's performance at Carnegie Hall. Mr. Myers was commissioned to choreograph Duke Ellington's A Sacred Concert, with the Duke Ellington Orchestra at the Philadelphia Academy of Music. As an internationally known teacher, Mr. Myers is in demand all over the world.

He has taught for many companies including: Ballet Hispanico, New Danish Dance Theater, Les Ballet Jazz De Montreal, Bat Dor, The Jamison Project, Kansas City Ballet, Mathew Bourne's Swan Lake Company, Batsheva, Ballet Stagium in San Paolo, Brazil and throughout Johannesburg, Pretoria and various townships in South Africa. He is currently the director of Modern Dance at Jacob's Pillow in Lee, Mass.