ABOUT

Sean Aaron Carmon 

began his training under the late Bonnie Cokinos at her School of Dance in Beaumont, TX. Thanks to two dedicated mentors at his magnet high school — 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 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 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. Mr. Carmon is a Princess Grace Choreography Fellowship nominee, a Palm Desert Choreography Festival award winner, a National Choreographer’s Initiative awardee, a YAGP Outstanding Choreographer, won The Joffrey Ballet’s Winning Works award and has been chosen as Audience Choice Award winner on several occasions.

As Rehearsal Director and Choreographer in Residence for Dance Kaleidoscope since 2024, Mr. Carmon has created and staged 7 original ballets. He has also the pleasure of choreographing a world premiere ballet for the Indianapolis Ballet and the Indianapolis Summer Stock Stage’s production of The Prom — both in 2025 — and contributed choreography for SSS’s 2026 production of Ragtime. Sean has been commissioned as Resident Choreographer for institutions such as The Black Artists Dance Collective in Atlanta and the Banyan Dance Festival in West Palm Beach. He continues to create world premiere works for Dance Kaleidoscope yearly and to educate dancers worldwide as a freelance artist, choreographing critically acclaimed, award-winning dance works and teaching master classes for festivals, companies, studios, and universities across the country and internationally.

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