bio

Sean Aaron Carmon (Beaumont, TX) began his training under the late Bonnie Cokinos at her School of Dance. Thanks to two dedicated mentors — Eva Leblanc and Lucia Booth — and a host of support from other faculty members, Sean was awarded the Bill and Melinda Gates Scholarship, affording him the opportunity to attend New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts on full scholarship. After moving to New York, he began taking supplemental classes at the Ailey School which led to an inevitable transfer to, and later graduation from, the Ailey/Fordham B.F.A. Program in Dance.

He was a member of Elisa Monte Dance before originating the role of "Phaedra" in the 2010 Tony Award–winning revival of La Cage Aux Folles and performed on the 2010 Tony Awards broadcast, Good Morning America and Live! with Regis and Kelly. Mr. Carmon also performed in the Broadway production of The Phantom of the Opera and has appeared as a guest artist with Joshua Beamish's MOVETHECOMPANY, the International Dance Association in Italy, Vitacca Ballet, Houston Contemporary Dance Company and with the Cape Dance Company in South Africa. 

Mr. Carmon danced with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and 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, Jiri Kylian, Johan Inger, Ulysses Dove, Matthew Rushing, Hope Boykin and Christopher L. Huggins. In addition, he was featured on Conan, the national TBS television talk show, Lincoln Center at the Movies, broadcast nationally on PBS and profiled in the Huffington Post for his work as an AGMA union representative for the Ailey dancers.

After almost a decade performing with Ailey, Sean toured all over North America as a featured dancer with Disney's The Lion King and has performed in Kinky Boots and Ragtime — where he also served as Dance Captain — with Broadway Sacramento! 

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, DanceSpirit and Dance Magazine. He was awarded The Joffrey Ballet's 2017 Winning Works choreographic award and was selected as one of four choreographers for the National Choreographic Initiative in 2021. His work longstoryshort was commissioned by the Dance Gallery Festival NYC and was selected as the Audience Choice Award Winner out of 30 pieces created for the festival. He has created works on the AAADT for multiple Ailey Dancers’ Resource Fund benefit performances, Houston Contemporary Dance Company, Sacramento Ballet, Vitacca Ballet, Mareck Dance and more. Sean is currently on faculty at Vitacca Ballet School (Studio Company Director), the Austin Dance Conservatory and Kinder High School for the Performing & Visual Arts; he teaches master classes and choreographs award-winning works for studios, dance conventions, high schools, colleges and universities across America and internationally.

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