Staś Kmieć American-born of Polish descent, is an award-winning theater and dance choreographer, specializing in a variety of styles of dance: theatre dance, character/folk, period/historical, social/ballroom, ballet, and concert dance

Concert dance

Concert dance is dance performed for an audience. It is frequently performed in a theatre setting, though this is not a requirement, and it is usually choreographed and performed to set music.By contrast, social dance and participation dance may be performed without an audience and, typically, these...

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Performance history

Staś Kmieć has danced with the Boston Ballet

Boston Ballet

Boston Ballet, founded in 1963 by E. Virginia Williams, was the first professional repertory ballet company in New England. Boston Ballet’s national and international reputation developed under the leadership of Artistic Directors Violette Verdy , Bruce Marks , and Anna-Marie Holmes...

 and the Metropolitan Opera

Metropolitan Opera

The Metropolitan Opera is an opera company, located in New York City. Originally founded in 1880, the company gave its first performance on October 22, 1883. The company is operated by the non-profit Metropolitan Opera Association, with Peter Gelb as general manager...

 Ballet; toured and performed on Broadway with both Rudolf Nureyev

Rudolf Nureyev

Rudolf Khametovich Nureyev was a Russian dancer, considered one of the most celebrated ballet dancers of the 20th century. Nureyev's artistic skills explored expressive areas of the dance, providing a new role to the male ballet dancer who once served only as support to the women.In 1961 he...

 in Don Quixote, and in Lee Theodore's American Dance Machine

American Dance Machine

The American Dance Machine was a theatrical dance company created by Lee Theodore, which played at the Century Theatre, opening Jun 14, 1978, running 199 performances. The show was a "Living Archive" of Broadway theatre dance; great theatre dances saved from oblivion...

, where he was a featured performer.

He was a lead dancer in two national tours of Fiddler on the Roof with Theodore Bikel

Theodore Bikel

Theodore Meir Bikel is a character actor, folk singer and musician. He made his film debut in The African Queen and was nominated for an Academy award for his supporting role as Sheriff Max Muller in The Defiant Ones ....

 and subsequent productions with Bikel, Paul Sorvino and Spiro Malas; has danced on film in Mona Lisa Smile

Mona Lisa Smile

Mona Lisa Smile is a 2003 romantic drama film produced by Revolution Studios and Columbia Pictures in association with Red Om Films Productions, directed by Mike Newell, written by Lawrence Konner and Mark Rosenthal, and starring Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Julia Stiles...

and The Thing About My Folks

The Thing About My Folks

The Thing About My Folks is a 2005 American drama film directed by Raymond De Felitta. The screenplay by Paul Reiser focuses on the effect a terminal illness has on the marriage of an aging couple and their adult children.-Plot:...

, and appeared in acting roles on television and film including: Robert Redford’s Quiz Show

Quiz Show

Quiz Show is a 1994 American historical drama film produced and directed by Robert Redford. Adapted by Paul Attanasio from Richard Goodwin's memoir Remembering America, the film is based upon the Twenty One quiz show scandal of the 1950s...

, Woody Allen’s Don't Drink the Water, and Todd Haynes’ coming-of-age film Dottie Gets Spanked, which was featured at the Sundance Film Festival

Sundance Film Festival

The Sundance Film Festival is a film festival that takes place annually in Utah, in the United States. It is the largest independent cinema festival in the United States. Held in January in Park City, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, as well as at the Sundance Resort, the festival is a showcase for new...

and on the PBS series, “TV Families.”

Professional affiliations

Kmieć is a member of the professional unions: Actors' Equity Association (AEA), Screen Actors’ Guild (SAG), the American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA) and the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers (SDC).

He was elected to the National Council of Actors' Equity and has served on the AGMA Board of Governors.

External links

Podcast:
NYTheatrecast.com - Choreographers' Roundtable

• http://www.nytheatrecast.com/wordpress/archives/96; http://www.nytheatrecast.com/pcast/nythpod221.mp3

Interview Article:
DanceNet Interview

• http://www.dance.net/topic/8044301/1/Ballet-General/Inspiration-01.html&replies=3

Theater Articles:
My Antonia – A Play with Music

• http://www.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=27599
• http://www.playbill.com/news/article/117520.html

DanceBreak - Broadway Industry Showcase

• http://broadwayworld.com/article/Photo_Flash_DanceBreak_2007_20070216

DanceBreak 2007

• http://www.dancebreak.org/past_performances/dancebreak-2007

DanceBreak, New World Stages, NYC (video interview)

• http://homepage.mac.com/msa141/iMovieTheater42.html

theAtrainplays

• http://www.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=19462