Durante Verzola is a 26-year-old, Filipino American choreographer and currently serves on faculty at Miami City Ballet School. He has choreographed works for Miami City Ballet, Miami City Ballet School, Pennsylvania Ballet II, Ballet Chicago, Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, Columbia Ballet Collaborative, School of Pennsylvania Ballet, Princeton University Ballet, and more. He is a winner of Joffrey’s Winning Works, was awarded a fellowship at NYU’s Center for Ballet and the Arts, completed a session at New York Choreographic Institute where he worked with the dancers of New York City Ballet, and has had his work shown at Guggenheim’s Works & Process.
His work has been described as “sharp and witty…so vibrant it is almost like a celebration of classicism and vitality with non-derivative balletic language…he continues to present classical ballet vocabulary in unfussy, thrilling ways,” by Philadelphia Dance.
Verzola danced professionally with Pennsylvania Ballet II and The Suzanne Farrell Ballet.
