David is a choreographer, musician, and educator. He currently serves Artistic Collaborator and Principal of the Professional Training Division at Cincinnati Ballet. David enjoyed a 15-year performing career beginning at Charlotte Ballet and culminating as a soloist with Cincinnati Ballet. During his performing career, he danced featured roles in the works of Jennifer Archibald, George Balanchine, Jiří Bubeníček, Ma Cong, William Forsythe, Jiří Kylián, Ohad Naharin, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, Justin Peck, Dwight Rhoden, and Twyla Tharp as well as much of the classical repertoire. His choreographic vision has been showcased across the United States, receiving accolades for its ingenuity, musicality, and emotional depth. In 2017 his duet "Short Ride in a Fast Machine" won the second prize at the McCallum Theatre Choreography Festival. In addition, Regional Dance America has awarded him the "Habich-Corey Choreography Award" and the "Project Tier Award for Excellence in Choreography." David has twice been invited to the New York Choreographic Institute, where he created new works on dancers from the New York City Ballet and the School of American Ballet. David has also created works for Ballet Academy East and the dance department at Point Park University.
In 2022, David had the honor of creating "Our Story," a world premiere commissioned by Cincinnati Ballet for their inaugural Bold Moves Festival. This one-act work, created in partnership with Cincinnati’s Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust & Humanity Center, serves as a living memorial to the victims of the Holocaust and a plea to audiences to root out hate within themselves and their communities. The Holocaust & Humanity Center honored David with their 2024 Upstander Award for the creation of this work and its community impact.
Since its inception in 2018, David has served as Program Director of Cincinnati Ballet's Collegiate Summer Intensive; a partnership between Cincinnati Ballet and the University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music.
David was honored to be nominated for the Rolex Mentor Protégé Arts Initiative's 2014-2015 cycle. Additionally, he has been nominated for the Princess Grace choreography fellowship.
Also an accomplished pianist, David has served as a ballet class accompanist for Cincinnati Ballet, Charlotte Ballet, The Chautauqua Institution, and Regional Dance America. He has also played as a guest accompanist for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, Ballet Academy East, University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music, Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music, and New York City Ballet, and was the founding principal accompanist of @worldwideballetclass during the Covid-19 pandemic.