ETHAN COLANGELO

ETHAN COLANGELO was born and raised in Toronto, Canada where he began his initial training at Canada’s National Ballet  School and Elite Danceworx. He is now an alumnus of the Juilliard  School where he received the Hector Zaraspe Prize for  Choreographic Promise. He has performed repertoire by Crystal  Pite, Ohad Naharin, Stijn Celis, Jose Limon, Mark Morris and has been in new creations by Roy Assaf, Stephan Laks, Miceala Taylor, and Jasmine ElliIs, along with other creative artists. Colangelo has danced professionally for BODYTRAFFIC in Los Angeles where he toured with the company across America.  

As a choreographer, he has presented his work at the  Baryshnikov Arts Center, Festival des Arts de Saint-Sauveur, Juilliard’s Choreographic Honours Showcases, APAP 2018, Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Colangelo was also one of nine choreographers selected internationally for the Copenhagen International Choreography Competition. Recently he has created work for the BODYTRAFFIC summer intensive, was selected as an  Emerging Choreographer for Springboard Danse Montreal 2020, had a choreographic partnership with the 92Y in New York, created a new work for Arts Umbrella Dance Company in Vancouver, Canada, and created a dance film consisting of 70 dancers from around the world. Colangelo is looking forward to a  new creation with Whim W’Him Contemporary Dance in Seattle this fall and is currently working on a  duet creation with Stefanie Noll and Rae Srivastava, two current dancers with Ballet BC.