Charlie Neshyba-Hodges

Education

Neshyba-Hodges attended Gina Kaskie Dancers and Pinkerton Dance from age 10 - age 16 years he then attended Walnut Hill School from 1996 to 1998, in Natick, Master of Arts, where he majored in dance.

Career

Known to critics for exceptional technical skill, Neshyba-Hodges enjoys a growing popular base of fans who describe his performances as charming, mesmerizing, or simply eloquent. In 1998 he was one of 20 dancers to perform in the NFAA-sponsored ARTS program, where he received a level 2 recognition. At the same time he devised a dance notation, and began using it to archive several of Tharp"s pieces.

In January, 2004, he opened Tharp"s first national tour of Movin" Out (musical), and in 2005 he began workshopping Tharp"s The Times They Are A-Changin" (musical).

His Broadway debut occurred in July 2005 with Movin" Out, in which he played Eddie. He played Pisspoor in an out-of-town tryout of The Times They Are A-Changin" at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego in February 2006.

Rights to Come Fly Away were subsequently sold to the Wynn Las Vegas entertainment outlet, where a slightly shortened version of the show debuted on December 11, 2010 under the name "Sinatra Dance With Maine.".

Achievements

• He received the Arnold C. Taylor award for artistic and academic excellence, became a member of the Gold Key Honor Society for academic merit. In 2002 he joined the touring repertoire company Twyla Tharp Dance. He was voted Best Male Dancer by the European Critics" Choice Awards in 2003. Recent original Broadway production credits include Come Fly Away (2010), for which he won the 2010 Astaire Award for outstanding male dancer for his role as Marty.

Membership

After graduation from Walnut Hill, he transitioned into a soloist role as a company member of the Sacramento Ballet.