Trey McIntyre: New Piece, New Grant

Trey McIntyre’s Ma Maison, commissioned by the New Orleans Ballet Association and set to jazz music performed live by the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, was a hit when the Trey McIntyre Project premiered it in 2008. This February the idiosyncratic choreographer will return to the Big Easy to create a companion piece to Maison, again collaborating with the PHJB. McIntyre is on the up-and-up: Not only has his Boise-based company been earning raves all over the country, but he was also recently awarded a prestigious $50,000 fellowship by United States Artists, an advocacy organization for American artists of all genres.