Movement & Dance
Photo: Stephanie Gould
About
Edward (Ned) Sturgis was born in Milwaukee, WI and began his dance training at Milwaukee High School of the Arts. He graduated from the University of Minnesota with a BFA in Dance in 2006. While there, he performed in works by Maureen Fleming, Carl Flink, Paul Taylor, and Merce Cunningham. After graduation he became a founding member of TU Dance and was also a guest with Shapiro & Smith Dance, Theater Forever, and Kaleena Miller Dance. Since moving to New York in 2012 he has been a company member of Dusan Tynek Dance Theater and has performed in works by Jordan Isadore, (Ellen) Cornfield Dance, Jodi Melnick, and Christopher Williams. He has presented his own work at the Minnesota Fringe Festival and Brooklyn Studios for Dance.
Photo: Jon Pack
RECENT PROJECTS
Works & Process Underground Uptown Dance Festival: Pontus Lidberg, Taylor Stanley, and Alec Knight
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Featured Project
Inside the Pillow Lab is an intimate new film series that captures works in process and behind-the-scenes moments of what it’s like for artists to live, work, and rehearse together again in COVID-compliant residencies on the Pillow’s retreat-like campus.
Press
“Ned Sturgis is one of the most connected and stunning dance performers in [Minneapolis].”
Ben McGinley, Minnesota Playlist
“Th(e) solo— ‘Genesis,’ based on Hippolyte Flandrin’s ‘Young Male Nude Sitting by the Sea’ and danced by Ned Sturgis — was the most striking. A rendering of the story of creation, it began with Sturgis, dressed only in skivvies, writhing on the floor and proceeded through evolutionary stages — from crawling to rising to all fours to standing unsteadily to an ultimate release from terrestrial binds. Sturgis’s strength and articulation made each stage both painful and pleasurable to watch and his final triumphal leap into the air, coinciding with a blackout of the lights, made for a dramatic finish.”
Carrie Siedman, Sarasota Herald-Tribune
