Artists

Justin Rapaport (he/him) is a Miami, Florida native, where he began dancing at the age of 8. He went on to formally train at New World School of the Arts, followed by The Juilliard School, where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts. During his training, Justin had the opportunity to perform works by Jiří Kylián, Twyla Tharp, Kyle Abraham, Martha Graham and Camille A. Brown. He also had the opportunity to perform as a guest artist with his classmates with BRIAN BROOKS/MOVING COMPANY and Kate Weare Company during his time at Juilliard. After graduating, Justin went on to join at Ballet BC for 6 years, under the directorship of Emily Molnar and Medhi Walerski, where he had the opportunities to perform various solos and lead roles by choreographers such as Crystal Pite, William Forsythe Aszure Barton, Ohad Naharin, Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar, Johan Inger, Marco Goecke, Felix Landerer and Out Innerspace. 

Justin has delved into the choreographic realm throughout his career, starting out in student choreographic presentations and working his way up to companies and festivals. Most notably in 2021, Justin created Passing By, in collaboration with Evan Rapaport and Rae Srivastiva, which was selected as a finalist of the 14th Copenhagen International Choreography Competition, and was awarded the Danish Dance Theater Award by Pontus Lidburg. Passing By will be presented at the Copenhagen Summer Dance in July 2022. 

Justin was a violinist for 10 years growing up, but had to put it to the side as dance became his full-time focus. He stills fiddles around with it from time to time.  Outside of dance, Justin loves being outdoors biking, swimming and hiking, and he loves the occasional decadent donut.