jeff michael rebudal

is an Assistant Professor of Dance at Wayne State University and received an MFA in Performing Arts/Arts Management from The American University and a BA in Dance/Journalism from the University of Hawaii-Manoa. He is artistic director of New York-based Rebudal Dance and is an original founding member of the critically acclaimed Seán Curran Company in which he performed and toured throughout the nation and abroad from 1995 to 2003 in addition to performing with H.T. Chen & Dancers and Andrew Jannetti & Dancers.

Prior to moving to New York, Rebudal performed professionally in Honolulu, Hawaii for where he has born and raised. In 1996 Prof. Rebudal began his career in academia as Visiting Assistant Professor at Connecticut College, the University of Oklahoma and Wells College in addition to being a guest artist at Arizona State University and the UH-Manoa. His professional choreography has been presented in New York at Joyce SoHo, Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Dance, Cunningham Studio, Lincoln Center’s Bruno Walter Auditorium and Clarke Theatre, the American Museum of Natural History and the 92nd St. Y, Downtown Dance Festival and DUMBO Dance Festival. Other venues include the Cultural Center of the Philippines in Manila, Anargyrios & Korialenios Theatre and Theatre of Helioupolis in Greece, Dance Place in Washington, DC, International Dance Festival in Connecticut, Arts Boundaries Unlimited in Florida, the Alexandria Dance Festival in Virginia and Montclair State University.

The New Yorker describes Rebudal’s choreography as a "fruitful meld of contemporary dance with Filipino folk forms" while Dance Insider states it as“…athletic movement sense and flair for dramatic phrasing.” Additionally, his opera credits include L’Etoile for New York City Opera, Opera de Montreal, Glimmerglass Opera, Cincinnati Opera, Austin Lyric Opera and Romeo et Juiliette, La Traviata, A Little Night Music and La Rondine for Michigan Opera Theatre. His scholarship titled “The Role of Dance and Choreography in Contemporary Opera” was funded with a Wayne State University Research Grant in 2006-2007 and presented papers at the Society of Dance History Scholars and National Opera Association.

His current interactive multi-media performance project title Spero Meliora received funding the Research Enhancement Program in the Arts and will premier at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Rebudal also serves on the Board of Directors for the American College Dance Festival Association and was a dance panelist for the New York Foundation for the Arts and a USA Delegate for the 1998 World Dance Alliance Conference."and was a dance panelist for the New York Foundation for the Arts and a USA Delegate for the World Dance Alliance Conference. He is also a recipient of grants including the Asian American Arts Alliance/JP Morgan Chase Regrant, Ruth and Seymore Klein Foundation, 92nd St. Y Harkness Space Grant and Connecticut College R.F. Johnson Grant.