About Haley
New York
Haley Winegarden Murphree (CBA, Julliard ’25) is a freelance choreographer and dancer. She is a graduate of the Juilliard School and has performed works by Justin Peck, Ohad Naharin, James Whiteside, Sonya Tayeh, Donald McKayle, Amy Hall Garner, Troy Schumacher, Norbert De La Cruz III, Jawole Jo Willa Zollar, and Spenser Theberge and Jermaine Spivey. Murphree has worked as a choreographer with Orlando Ballet II, Kaatsbaan Cultural Park, Nevada Ballet Theatre, and the Alabama School of Fine Arts. She was awarded the 2022 Kaatsbaan Playing Field Choreography Award. She won the Héctor Zaraspe Prize, awarded to a graduating senior of the Juilliard Dance Division who has shown outstanding talent and development as a choreographer. In December 2023, she made her debut at the Joyce Theater in the Dancing with Glass: The Piano Etudes.
Project: “Rehearsal Episode” will explore the beginnings of creating a 60-minute contemporary ballet set to multiple musical works composed by 22-year old, self-taught classical composer, Joshua Kyan Aalampour. Murphree aims to discover ways to expand the traditional structure of an evening-length ballet while staying true to it, and to explore musical intricacies and push the athletic form of the ballet language
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