About

Andrew Champlin is a Bessie-nominated dancer from the United States based in Berlin, Germany.

He trained on scholarship at the School of American Ballet before entering the contemporary dance field as a performer.

His performance practice incorporates rhythmic experimentation, text, voice, singing, classical and contemporary movement vocabularies, dialogue, improvisation, and conceptual approaches to choreography.

He has collaborated with choreographers such as Christopher Williams, Jillian Peña, Xavier Le Roy, David Gordon, Miguel Gutierrez, Pam Tanowitz, and Heather Kravas, as well as on several projects with the Merce Cunningham Trust. He has also participated in artistic research projects with Zen Jefferson, Ruth Anderwald, Leonard Grond, Anna Leon, Elizabeth Ward, and Kevin Fay; music projects with composer Colin Self; and visual art projects with Cristiana de Marchi, Ryan McNamara, and Madeline Hollander, among others.

In his teaching and research, he applies methods drawn from technique, choreography, and visual art to examine assumptions surrounding ballet knowledge, transmission, aesthetic experience and spectacle.

His work as an educator is deeply informed by the ballet teacher and dance artist Janet Panetta, whom he assisted and studied with from 2010 to 2023.

Recent guest teaching affiliations include Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, Norrdans, Cullberg, Tanzquartier Wien, the Judith Sánchez Ruíz Contemporary Professional Dance Certification Program, The New School, Iceland University of the Arts, Stockholm University of the Arts, Zurich University of the Arts, HZT Berlin, Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company, and the ImPulsTanz Vienna International Dance Festival.

He has an academic background in liberal arts (The New School, Eugene Lang College), choreography and performative practices (Stockholm University of the Arts), and artistic research (Zurich University of the Arts PEERS Program).

He is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, where he investigates the transmission of ballet through participatory and archival practices that foreground relationships within ballet pedagogy.