David Justin

DAVID JUSTIN, Artistic Director of Dance, Choreographer-in-Residence
A native Texan, David is a Choreographer and a Teacher. He currently serves as the Artistic Director of
Dance Repertory Theatre (DRT) in Austin, Texas, where he is a Professor of Dance at the University of Texas at Austin
and Co-Chair of the University Co-Op presents the Cohen New Works Festival. He was formerly a Principal Dancer with
Birmingham Royal Ballet (BRB), a Soloist with San Francisco Ballet (SFB) and began his professional performing career
with Boston Ballet. With these companies David has toured extensively throughout the world performing at Lincoln
Center, NY, Kennedy Center, Washington D.C., The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, Paris Opera, Paris as well
as major houses in Italy, Japan (13 cities) and South Africa. His repertoire is vast, spanning many eras and genres of
dance. He has performed Principal roles ranging from many of the classics; Romeo and Juliet, Swan Lake, Giselle, The
Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker, Copellia, Ashton’s La Fille Mal Garde, Le Corsaire, Don Quixote and more; to the
Champion Roper in Agnes DeMille’s Rodeo, and the Husband in Robins’ The Concert, Pulcinella in Canaparoli’s Pulcinella,
King Arthur in Bintley’s Arthur, and Gaveston in Edward II. David has also been privileged to dance many
choreographers’ masterpieces including the works of Balanchine, Mark Morris, Twyla Tharp, Val Caniparoli,
Stanton Welsh, Jiri Kylian, James Kudelka, Hans Van Mannen, Paul Taylor, Helgi Tomasson, and William Forsythe.
David has been a choreographer for the past 15 years, creating works on DRT, BRB, and Configuration as well as on
members from SFB, Royal Swedish Ballet, Ballet de Monte Carlo, Alberta Ballet, Dance Theatre of Harlem and others.
David regularly travels as a guest teacher to work with ballet companies and schools around the world. These have
included Boston Ballet, Atlanta Ballet, Cincinnati Ballet, Royal Ballet School of London, and Salzburg Ballet