About

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Welcome to my site, I’m happy you found yourself here.

My name is Ty Graynor and I am a dancer, athlete, educator, coach, and photographer currently based out of Austin, Texas. I am most interested in the intimate connections we have available to us as human beings through movement.

I received my BFA in Dance from The Hartt School of the University of Hartford, where I worked closely with Nina Watt, Miki Orihara, Stephen Pier, and Doug Varone. Throughout my training I have performed a variety of works by artists such as Martha Graham, José Limón, Doris Humphrey, Doug Varone, Bryan Arias, Adam Barruch, Manuel Vignoulle, Robin Becker and more. After undergrad I furthered my training at the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance and joined as a Company Dancer with Graham 2. During my time, I performed as lead roles in Appalachian Spring, Acts of Light, Secular Games and Diversion of Angels. 

In 2019 I joined the Limón Dance Company as a performing and teaching artist. During my time with the company I performed several of José's classic works such as The Unsung, The Winged, A Choreographic Offering, Mazurkas, Orfeo, Psalm, There is A Time, and The Traitor. I took part in the creation process of three new works commissioned for the Company, “Suite Donuts” by Chafin Seymour, “Only One Will Rise” by Olivier Tarpaga and “Migrant Mother/Madre Migrante” by Raúl Tamez (awarded the Bessie Award for choreography in 2022).

​While being apart of the José Limón Dance Foundation, I was able to share my passion for the Limón technique through various avenues including being a resident teaching artist for Limón4Kids in NYC Public Schools, pre-professional/professional workshops through organizations such as Perry Mansfield, University of Minnesota, and the Hartford Dance Collective, and repertoire for the students of the Limón Institute. In 2021, I founded Making Space Workshop, an online dance workshop that brought together teaching artists from the Limón Dance Company, Martha Graham Dance Company, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, Paul Taylor Dance Company, Cleo Parker Robinson Dance and more to share a wide range of techniques and movement disciplines to students from all around the world as a result of lockdowns and social isolation.

I currently reside in Austin, Texas and hold regular classes in the Limón technique, contemporary dance forms, improvisation, and other forms of somatic expression. I am also a personal trainer at Squatch Frontier Fitness, specializing in alignment, primal movement, and full-body conditioning.

Contact me anytime: tygraynor@gmail.com