Seth Williams is a PhD student in English Literature at Columbia University, and studies the intersections of dance and literary culture in the 16th-18th centuries. He has taught and reconstructed dances for the NYBDC, and when actively performing also appeared with the companies of Sean Curran and Mark Morris. Currently he teaches for the NYBDC’s Dance f the Month at the Mark Morris Dance Center in Brooklyn.
Raised in Davis, California, where he danced with Pamela Trokanski, he graduated magna cum laude, with degrees in Comparative Literature and Dance, from the University of California at Irvine, where he performed in the ballets of David Allan and worked extensively with Donald McKayle.
