Richard Siegal

Richard Siegal is an American dancer and choreographer. He is founder and artistic director of The Bakery, an interdisciplinary platform for performance art based in Munich, Germany.
For his pieces, Siegal has cooperated with people from different fields such as architecture (e.g. fr:Didier Faustino), design (e.g. de:Konstantin Grcic) and composing (e.g. Arto Lindsay). Siegals works were awarded with the New York Dance and Performance Bessie Award, The German National Theater Faust Award, S.A.C.D. Prize, a Beaumarchais, The Mouson Award, and Optionsförderung für Tanz in München (2010).
Richard Siegal took part in residencies at the ZKM/Karlsruhe, Bennington College and The Baryshnikov Arts Center. He has further worked as a faculty member of the American Dance Festival where he curated the annual Forsythe Festival. Richard Siegal is a MacDowell fellow and honorary member of The Bolshoi Ballet's Benoit de la Danse.