Tyler Orcutt is a Texas-based dance artist currently in his fourth season with Houston’s NobleMotion Dance, where he has performed nationally and internationally. He was recently a featured performer at the United Nations' 2024 "AI for Good" Global Summit in Geneva, Switzerland, in an art-science research-performance known as Meeting of Minds. Tyler is an ongoing member of a multi-series research project conducted by the collaborative efforts of NMD, University of Houston’s IUCRC BRAIN Center, and Musiqa.

 

Prior to Texas, Tyler spent eight seasons teaching and touring with Salt Lake City’s Repertory Dance Theatre (2012-2020). His RDT career included the distinct privilege of performing lead roles in historical works by Ted Shawn, Michio Itō, Charles Weidman, Doris Humphrey, José Limón, Donald McKayle, and Merce Cunningham, as well as contemporary works by Bebe Miller, Lar Lubovitch, Danielle Agami, Bill Evans, Noa Zuk & Ohad Fishof, and Zvi Gotheiner, among many others.

 

As a choreographer, his work has been presented at Dance Italia, Barnstorm Dance Festival, American College Dance Association, and Repertory Dance Theatre’s Emerge; he has also been commissioned by Movement Source Dance Company, Sam Houston State University, Scottsdale Community College, and NobleMotion II. He holds an MFA in Dance from Sam Houston State University, where he was awarded a Graduate Teaching Assistantship position, and a BFA in Dance from the University of South Florida, where he graduated with honors.

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Tyler is currently a lecturer of dance at Sam Houston State University. He has previously served as adjunct faculty at University of Houston, and has taught workshops and master classes at universities and colleges across the West Coast.