Glenn Edgerton has had an international career as a dancer, teacher, and director. His sixteen-year dancing career was with The Joffrey Ballet and The Netherlands Dance Theater. At The Joffrey Ballet, he performed leading roles, classical and contemporary for 11 years under the mentorship of Robert Joffrey and Gerald Arpino. He danced principal roles in the classics of John Cranko and Sir Fredrick Ashton along with innovative choreographers like Twyla Tharp, Jiří Kylián, William Forsythe, Paul Taylor and Laura Dean. In 1989, Edgerton joined the acclaimed Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT), where he was immersed in the diverse repertory of master choreographers and emerging choreographers for five years. After retiring from performing, he became the Executive Artistic Director of NDT 1, mentored by Jiří Kylián, leading the company for a decade and presenting the works of Jiří Kylián, Hans van Manen, William Forsythe, Ohad Naharin, Mats Ek, Nacho Duato, Jorma Elo, Johan Inger, Paul Lightfoot and Sol León, among many others. From 2006 to 2008, he directed the Colburn Dance Institute at the Colburn School of Performing Arts in Los Angeles, CA while teaching at UCLA, Loyola Marymount and CalArts. Edgerton joined Hubbard Street Dance Chicago as Associate Artistic Director in 2008. From 2009-2020 served as Hubbard Street’s Artistic Director bringing the company to perform worldwide while fostering the next generation of dancers and choreographers. Many of those dancers turned choreographers are leading the dance field today, like Alejandro
Cerrudo, Rena Butler, Robyn Mineko Williams, Penny Saunders, Emilie Leriche, Alice Klock and Florian Lochner (FLOCK) among others. In 2017, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of the Arts Degree from California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, CA (CalArts). As of the fall of 2020, Glenn joined the faculty as an Instructor at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma teaching ballet and choreographing with an emphasis on the prolific repertory of Jiří Kylián and Gerald Arpino. Other responsibilities at OU have been directing the OU Summer Intensive and Oklahoma Festival Ballet. Edgerton set the work, Sinfonietta by Jiří Kylián for American Ballet Theater in the fall of 2022 along with teaching for ABT. During the summer of 2025 Glenn was chosen to choreograph for the National Choreographic Initiative at UCIrvine. Edgerton continues on faculty at OU as an Associate Professor teaching, mentoring and choreographing.