Sean Aaron Carmon
Sean Aaron Carmon joined the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in 2011 and has performed major solo roles including Mikhail Baryshnikov’s original role in Alvin Ailey’s Pas de Duke and featured roles in ballets by other notable choreographers such as Wayne McGregor, Robert Battle, Aszure Barton, Johan Inger, Ulysses Dove and Christopher L. Huggins, to name only a few. In addition, he has appeared on Broadway in La Cage aux Folles and The Phantom of the Opera, been featured on Conan, the national TBS television talk show, Lincoln Center at the Movies, broadcast nationally on PBS and he was profiled in the Huffington Post.
As a choreographer’s assistant, Sean has learned from some of today’s top professional choreographers, including Christopher L. Huggins, Joshua Beamish, Matthew Rushing and Nicholas Villeneuve.
His own choreographies have been performed all across the country and internationally and have been lauded as “everything and then some…” and “powerful” and “seriously flawless” by major national print and online publications such as The New York Times, Newsweek, Jet Magazine, BroadwayBlack, Dance Spirit and Dance Magazine. Mr. Carmon won The Joffrey Ballet’s 2017 Winning Works award and created Suite Hearts for eighteen of the Joffrey Ballet’s Studio Company members and the Joffrey Academy’s advanced trainees. He has also created works on the AAADT for multiple Ailey Dancers’ Resource Fund benefit performances. Mr. Carmon teaches master classes and choreographs for festivals, companies, studios and universities across America and internationally.
Since 2017, Sean is a Gallery Ambassador for I Dance Contemporary.
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