Derryl yeager biography sample
As a professional dancer for over two decades Derryl Yeager has had experience in evey style and medium.!
Director Spotlight // Founder & Artistic Director of Odyssey Dance Theatre Derryl Yeager
The award for Utah's 'Best of State' to the Odyssey Dance Theatre was their lucky thirteenth consecutive win.
Parkites can experience this quality dance company when they bring their highly-anticipated, annual performance of Thriller to the Egyptian Theatre September 21 - October 7.
Thriller is the creation of Founder and Artistic Director of ODT, Derryl Yeager.
A former principal dancer for Ballet West and veteran of Broadway, he wanted to create an original performance piece that could be their ‘Nutcracker’ so-to-speak.
In 2001, he choreographed the dance sequences for Carousel at the Paper Mill Playhouse.
“I started off with the idea of doing a full length Dracula, but couldn't afford the massive sets and costumes it would require. We opted for a 'vignette' format and highlights of lots of different Halloween charactersthus Thriller was born.”
The ODT production was created in , starting out with only 4 lightly attended performances.
22 years later there are over 40 oft