"I used to go once a week for a dollar," Curran recalled in a 1999 New York Times profile, "I learned quickly and our teachers had us performing.
Curran is a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, where he now serves as Chair of the Department of Dance.
[4] The Company returned to the Joyce in 2013 to present "Fireweather," a dance inspired by Dante's Inferno, and "Left Exit," which explored existential philosophy and world religions.
In 2012, the Company traveled through Central Asia, performing and teaching as US cultural ambassadors sponsored by DanceMotionUSA and the US State Department.
Curran has since been nominated for a Bessie Award in 2012 for "Outstanding Production of a Work that Pushes the Boundaries of a Traditional or Culturally Specific Form" for his piece Dingle Diwali created on Darrah Carr Dance.