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Anthony Picarello is currently a dance major at the Glorya Kaufman School of Dance at the University of Southern California, studying a vast range of dance forms from ballet to house dance, and waacking, among other forms. Anthony started his career rooted in theater at 9 years old as “Young Charlie” in the touring cast of the Broadway musical Kinky Boots and began his dance journey at 12 years old. He danced competitively in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, where he earned experience performing and realizing his love for dance as a hybrid art form. Through this, he combined his love for theatrical performance and more abstract concepts and choreography.

While studying at USC, Anthony has performed in repertory by Spencer Theberge, Jiří Kylián, Martha Graham, and Jakevis Thomason. He’s also performed and choreographed pieces for Club Jeté in Los Angeles and gained performance and co-choreography experience through a multitude of film opportunities, such as the “Exercize” music video by Wallis where he served as choreographer. Anthony’s personal work and choreography is often exploring his perspective as a queer individual through his energetic and virtuosic commercial choreography. He also works by investigating his connection to chronic mental health and his deeply rooted and intense internal world within his gestural and task-based contemporary work.

Anthony aims to work alongside music artists and brands through film and live performance as both performer and choreographer, progressing his skills in curation toward more creative direction roles. Through his unique combination of perspectives based in intense emotions and entertainment, his creations aim to captivate and deeply transport audiences to places of internal reflection and confrontation with their personal identities and darkest thoughts.