Faculty Bio

Austin, Texas

Ty Graynor, originally from Huntington, New York, earned his BFA in Dance from The Hartt School. He went on to train at the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance, where he was also a dancer with Graham 2, before joining the Limón Dance Company as a performing and teaching artist. His work has been deeply informed by mentors Nina Watt, Miki Orihara, Stephen Pier, and Catherine Murphy. Ty has had the privilege of performing works by Doug Varone, Adam Barruch, Raúl Tamez, Manuel Vignoulle, Christina Lynch Markham, Brice Mousset, and Bryan Arias. Now based in Austin, he is the Artistic Director of TY&CO, a modern-contemporary dance company that honors the lineage of modern dance while serving as an incubator for professional training, movement research, and experimental work across concert dance, cabaret, and film. Alongside his own work, Ty is a company artist with Peter Stathas Dance and Red Nightfall Dance Theatre. In 2024, he earned a B. Iden Payne Award for Outstanding Lead Performer in a Drama for MoonFall with Red Nightfall Dance Theatre.