ADAM KERBEL

Choreographer, improviser, educator.

he/him/el

adamkerbel.com

Awards

  • Rocky Award, 2020. Philadelphia, PA

  • Directors Lab West, 2018. Pasadena, CA

    Residencies

  • Mascher Space Cooperative, 2024, 2012. Philadelphia, PA

  • CalCreative, 2019. Los Angeles, CA

  • Terra Nova Choreographic Residency, 2018, 2017. Los Angeles, CA

  • New York Live Arts–Fresh Tracks, (as Almanac) 2014. New York, NY

  • Bearnstow, 2013. Mt. Vernon, ME

    Select Teaching

  • Performa Choreographic Incubator. Winter 2024. Phila, PA

  • Instant Improvisations. Spring 2023. St. Louis, MO

  • Breaking Walls Festival. Nov. 2022. Cairo, Egypt

  • Lost Motion. Spring 2022. Los Angeles, CA

  • Noah’s Ark at the Skirball. 2019–2022. Los Angeles, CA

  • CalCreative. Winter 2019. Los Angeles, CA

  • Muhlenberg College. Spring 2015. Allentown, PA

    Select Presentations

  • Communitas. Dancer and co-choreographer. Almanac Dance Circus Theatre. Presented by Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival on the famed Henry J. Leir Stage, sold out. Rain date restaged in Preles Family Studio. July 2023. Becket, MA

  • What are you calling me? Dancer and co-choreographer. Presented by Breaking Walls Festival. Nov. 2022. Cairo, Egypt

  • Toxic City. Choreographer. Presented and Produced by Breaking Walls Festival. Nov. 2022. Cairo, Egypt

  • Motion Sickness. Dancer and choreographer. Produced by Adam Kerbel. Presented at Miniball Festival, Dec. 16-18, 2022. Philadelphia, PA

  • IMMUNITY. Dancer and co-choreographer. Presented at Visions at Cannonball Festival. Sept. 2022. Philadelphia, PA

  • All the Truths We Cannot See: A Chernobyl Story. Dancer. US Premiere at USC Thornton School of Opera with Sibelius Academy, Helsinki. May 2022. Los Angeles, CA

  • Happy Hour. Dancer and co-choreographer. Almanac Dance Circus Theatre. Premiered at Fit Fest. Oct 2021. Philadelphia, PA

  • The Builder and the Dove. Performer and co-creator. Mister & Mischief. Presented by Skirball Cultural Center. Jan-March 2020. Los Angeles, CA

  • What is the World If I Am Removed? Dancer and choreographer. Presented at Home Grown at Mimoda. May 2018. Los Angeles, CA

  • Ascent. Dancer and choreographer. Premiered at HFF. July 2017. Los Angeles, CA

  • Leaps of Faith & Other Mistakes. Dancer and co-choreographer. Almanac Dance Circus

    Theatre. Presented by Circus Now at NYU Skirball. Nov. 2017. New York, NY

  • Building. Dancer and co-choreographer. Presented by Links Hall. July 2016. Chicago, IL

  • Lessons in Human Development. Dancer and performer. Created by Precious Jennings. Jan. 2016. Chicago, IL

  • Hic Svnt Dracones. Dancer and performer. Created by K.J. Holmes. Dec. 2015. New York, NY

  • Communitas. Dancer and co-choreographer. Almanac Dance Circus Theatre. Presented by

    New York Live Arts–Fresh Tracks. Dec. 2014. New York, NY

    Education and Training

  • The Harmony Project, Culturally Responsive Pedagogies, 2022. Los Angeles, CA

  • Center for Cultural Innovation, Business of Art, 2021. Los Angeles, CA

  • Black Box Acting, Meisner, 2016. Chicago, IL

  • Headlong Performance Institute, Collaborative Performance and Design, 2011. Philadelphia, PA

  • Marymount Manhattan College, BA Theatre, 2008-12. New York, NY