Summer 2008
Born in New York City, Paul Haze received his dance and musical training at the High School of Performing Arts, received a B.F.A. degree in dance from the State University of New York at Purchase and finished his training at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center.
After a successful career as a dancer working in various dance companies, including The Garden State Ballet Company and the Martha Graham Dance Company, several Broadway productions, television and film with the likes of Michael Jackson and Diana Ross, he turned his attention to teaching and choreography.
He worked as assistant choreographer to Talley Beatty creating "The Stackup" and "Blue Shift" for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, and the restaging of Beatty's "Caranvan Sarai" for the Dance Theatre of Harlem. Also together with Mr. Beatty he received the "Tor Award" for best choreography for the Off Broadway Production of "Boogie Woogie Rumble...".
As assistant choreographer to Alvin Ailey he created "La dea della Aque" for the Corpo de Ballo alla Scala and co-choreographed the ballet "Caverna magica" for the Royal Danish Ballet Company.
On his own he has choreographed numerous theatre productions in New York for Broadway, Off Broadway, television and music videos. He has choreographed for several dance companies throughout Europe and Asia, and between 1989 and 1991 he formed his own company "PhaZe 1" based in Köln.
His choreography can also be seen in the Kino hits "Der Schuh des Manitu" and "(T)raumschiff Surprise".
He has worked in the Opera houses of Köln and Bonn and since 1998 he has been teaching modern dance for Ballet Company and school of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein.
In the spring of 2006 he premiered his first work for the company in the evening entitled "Black Influence".