Helen Pickett, a San Diego, California native, currently resides Brooklyn, New York. 2018 marks 13 years for Helen as a choreographer. During this time she created over 40 ballets in the U.S. and Europe. Helen was resident choreographer for Atlanta Ballet through 2017. Her commissions for 2018 include, The Crucible, a new full length for Scottish Ballet, Charlotte Ballet, Tulsa Ballet and Smuin Ballet. She recently choreographed for the Chicago Lyric Opera on Les Troyens. In addition to Helen’s contemporary ballet choreography, she has collaborated, as a choreographer and actress with installation video artists and filmmakers, including Eve Sussman, Toni Dove and Laurie Simmons. She danced with Ballet Frankfurt Artistic Director, William Forsythe for 11 years, and performed with the New York theater company Wooster Group, director, Elizabeth LeCompte, for five years. She was nominated for the Isadora Duncan Dance Award in 2013, and was named Best Choreographer of Atlanta in 2014 and 2015. In addition to teaching in universities in the United States and Europe, Helen is the producer and creator of the workshops, Choreographic Essentials and the motivational creative workshop for the general public entitled Steps into Courage. In 2006, Dance Europe published Helen’s article, Considering Cezanne. In 2012, Emory University published her writing for the Vulnerability and the Human Condition Initiative, director Martha Fineman, that appeared on the Emory University School of Law website. Helen earned her Masters of Fine Arts in 2011 from Hollins University. In 2016, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate, for her contribution to the arts, and named Visiting Distinguished Artist for North Carolina School of the Arts, dean, Susan Jaffe.

www.helenpickett.com

photo credit courtesy of NJDTE: Veranika Antanevich

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