Eric Trope is a freelance choreographer, ballet dancer, and repetiteur. Eric’s latest work was seen at the Nantucket Atheneum Dance Festival in July of 2021, after receiving a commission for winning their 2020 “Choreo-contest.” Prior to that, Eric premiered Soliloquy in Three Parts for the Miami City Ballet School and Apprentice Program in their spring showcase June of 2021. Eric premiered Fire and Gold for the Miami City Ballet outdoor pop-up series at the Wynwood Walls in January of 2021. In 2019, Eric’s work was presented at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts as part of the finale of the prestigious Mainly Mozart Festival. He was also selected to participate in the 2016 Fall Session of the New York Choreographic Institute, an affiliate of the New York City Ballet. His short film Patience was included in the 2019 Mobile Dance Film Festival. He has also made works for Dimensions Dance Theater of Miami, Louisiana Delta Ballet, the New World Symphony, and the fundraiser Shut up and Dance.

Eric finished his eighth season with the Miami City Ballet in April of 2021. He previously danced with the Pennsylvania Ballet for four seasons and most recently was a guest artist with BalletX and Ballet Tucson. Eric has danced a vast amount of repertoire including works by Balanchine, Robbins, Forsythe, Ratmansky, Taylor, Kylian, Peck, and many others. Some of his featured roles include Riff in Robbins' West Side Story Suite, Phlegmatic in Balanchine's The Four Temperaments, Johnny in Taylor's Company B, the principal man in Balanchine's Who Cares?, the Paul Taylor solo in Balanchine's Episodes, and “Taylor” in Justin Peck’s Rodeo. Eric has toured extensively including the NY State Theater and NY City Center in NYC, the Music Center and Segerstrom Center in LA, and the National Arts Centre in Ottawa.

Eric has been a guest teacher at the Rock School for Dance Education, Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, the Finnish National Ballet, Maryland Youth Ballet, Regional Dance America, among many others. In March 2021, Eric began staging Justin Peck’s Heatscape for the Finnish National Ballet; the ballet is set to be performed in Helsinki in September 2022. Finally, Eric is a cofounder of Buddy System, a nonprofit focused on food insecurity that was started in response to the Miami community’s immense need during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

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