Stephen Koester

Stephan Koester

Guest Choreographer for Dance Repertory Theatre, 2009

Stephen Koester, formerly co-Artistic Director of Creach/Koester, a dance company based in New York City which toured throughout the US, Canada and Europe. With partner Terry Creach, Koester received five consecutive choreographic fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts, plus a choreographic fellowship from the New York State Foundation for the Arts. His work appears in the repertories of the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, Pittsburgh Dance Alloy, Dance Forum, Taipei, among others; in 2004 he won the Repertory Dance Theatre’s Sense of Place Choreographic Competition to set a new work on the company in 2004. In 2002, Stephen received the College of Fine Arts Faculty Excellence Award for creative research.