tilman o'donnell

Tilman O’Donnell (German/U.S.) received his training at the National Ballet School in Toronto, Canada. He joined The Göteborg Ballet in 2001 Staatstheater Saarbrücken (2002) Cullberg Ballet (2003-2007) The Forsythe Company (2007-2012, guest artist 2012-2015). He has been freelancing as a choreographer, dancer and teacher since 2010.

Tilman made his debut as a choreographer in 2002 with Del A, receiving first prize in two major international choreographic competitions. In 2005 he was nominated both “Dancer To Watch” and “Choreographer To Watch” by the magazine Ballet Tanz, and as “Hoffnungsträger” in 2015 by the same publication. In 2017 he was once again named “Dancer to Watch” for Whatever Singularity #453.

He has made works for Cullberg, SPIRA Jönköping/Cullberg To Come, Staatstheater Graz, The Göteborgs Operans Danskompani, University of Dance Stockholm, Corpus, The Danish University of Dance, Weld Theater Stockholm, as well as producing his own works. Recent works include: This Is (2010), August did not have what is commonly considered good taste as far as furniture is concerned.. (2012) The Disambiguation Project (2013), Whatever Singularity #453: Solo For Maxime / Dancing With Alain (2014), In Life & Love & So On (2015), These & Those & Upon Us (with Cyril Baldy, 2016) In Some Sense (2016-2018 with Mikkel Ploug), Corpus Dogme: On the One Hand (2019) & History Was Written By The Loosers / Hoedown Showdown (2020).

In recent years he has worked as a dancer in projects by Fabrice Mazilah (In Act & Thought, The Manufactured Series #2: Made in China) Deborah Hay (Solo Commissioning Project, Figure A Sea, Animals On The Beach) and Laurent Chetouene (Duett Für Hörende Körper).

From 2015-2018 Tilman was a member of the multidisciplinary artist group HOOD as part of a fellowship program at PACT Zollverein, Essen, Germany.

In addition, he teaches extensively.