Jonathan Royse Windham, a Colorado native, has a BFA from the State University of New York at Purchase, concentrating in ballet, and after spent a season with American Repertory Ballet. Following ARB he worked with Gallim Dance touring the continental US as well as Canada and Europe, and was featured on the Fall for Dance advertisements appearing across New York City in 2010. He was named one of Dance Magazines “25 to Watch” for 2013. He has worked with the Metropolitan Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Deutsches Nationaltheater and Staatskapelle Weimar, Santa Fe Opera, Company XIV’s Nutcracker Rouge, KAMEA Dance Company, The Kevin Wynn Collective, The DASH Ensemble, and has professionally performed works by Twyla Tharp, Roman Oller, Itzik Galli, and Sidi Larbi. Jonathan was in Fiddler on the Roof on Broadway as part of the original revival company, choreography by Hofesh Shechter.
Jonathan’s choreography has been shown throughout the USA, at Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival, multiple times at Dixon Place, Dancers Responding to AIDS at the Cedar Lake Theater (NYC), the American Repertory Ballet choreography workshop, Philadelphia Fringe Festival, The Staller Center at Stonybrook, South Orange Performing Arts Center, Center for Performance Research, The Hartt Conservatory, Contemporary Dance Wyoming, TanzOrtNord (Lübeck, Germany), SOLO Contemporary Dance Festival (Ankara, Turkey), Presenting Denver Dance Festival, and is a founding choreographer and former curator at the Current Sessions NYC. Standing in doorframes, Jonathan’s latest evening length work premiered in June of 2025 at the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center.
He is currently full time faculty at the Martha Graham School in New York City teaching contemporary and ballet techniques as well as choreography lab, and is a regular substitute teacher at STEPS on Broadway. He recently restaged Wonderland on Gallim Dance for their 2024 Joyce Theater season and has been a senior stager of Gallim repertory through the years.
Past teaching and guest teaching credits include; University of Michigan, University of the Arts in Philadelphia, SUNY Potsdam, SUNY Oswego, Skidmore College, Houston School for the Performing Arts, Goucher College, Peridance Center, Deutsche Oper Berlin company ballet class, GIBNEY Company warm up class, Tanzfabrik (Berlin).