Larry Keigwin

Reception Keigwin's style, which toes the line between art and pop culture, has met with both positive and negative reviews.

New York Times journalist Roslyn Sulcas calls Keigwin's work “witty, kinetic and musically responsive, mixing the stretched lines of ballet with the more weighted, blunt quality of contemporary dance, often integrating everyday gestures and pop-culture references.”

New York Times dance critic Gia Kourlas noted that Keigwin, in his massive community piece Bolero, “made a dance about a community add up to more than a community dance.”

New York Times dance critic Alastair Macaulay writes that Keigwin “has it in him to be an artist of rewarding originality...Most of the evening, however, suggests he finds it convenient to make choreography that is at best cute.”

Keigwin was named one of "25 to Watch" in 2004 by Dance Magazine.

He was awarded the American Dance Festival's Doris Duke Award for New Work in 2004, 2006, 2008.

In 1999, he received a Bessie Award for his performance in Dream Analysis by Mark Dendy.