River North Dance Chicago

Adam Barruch began his career as a young actor, performing professionally on Broadway and in film and television — working with prominent figures such as Tony Bennett, Jerry Herman and Susan Stroman. He later received dance training at LaGuardia High School for Music & Art and Performing Arts and was accepted into the dance department at The Juilliard School. He has performed the works of Jiri Kylian, Ohad Naharin, Susan Marshall, Jose Limon, Daniele Dèsnoyers and Sylvain Émard. As a choreographer, Adam's work has been presented at Dance Theater Workshop, City Center, NYU/ Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, The Juilliard School, Cunningham Studio, Ailey-Citigroup Theater, SUNY Purchase, New York University, Cedar Lake Theater and Theatre Usine C in Montreal. In March 2009, he produced a full evening of original dance/theater works at The Baryshnikov Arts Center, with his company Adam Barruch Dance. He has presented work in the 2008 and 2009 Reverb Dance Festivals, 2009 Bushwick SITE Festival and the 2010 Dancer's Responding to Aids benefit: Dance From the Heart Men.  Adam was an Emerging Collaborator for Springboard Danse in Montreal, Movement and Dance Artist-in-Residence at the Stella Adler Acting Studio and a participant in the 2011 Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation New Directions Choreography Lab.