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Lanette Costas is a dance educator, performer, choreographer, and mentor whose international career spans concert dance, musical theater, television, and higher education. With more than 15 years of teaching experience, she has guest lectured and taught master classes across the United States.

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Ms. Costas currently serves on the faculty of Ballet Tech and The Ailey School, where she teaches in the Professional Division, Junior Division, and Professional Performing Arts School. This summer, she will also join the faculty of the School of American Ballet and return to Ballet Hispánico for her third summer as a faculty member. Previously, she spent eight years on the faculty of the University of the Arts Pre-College Summer Institute. She is a returning Resident Artist at Lawrence University and a School of American Ballet National Visiting Fellow.

 

Her professional concert dance credits include Ailey II, Donald Byrd/The Group, Elisa Monte Dance, Fred Benjamin Dance Company, and Earl Mosley’s Diversity of Dance. She was also a featured dancer in Disney’s The Lion King.

 

Her theater credits include choreographing Five Guys Named Moe for Skylight Music Theatre, serving as Dance Captain for Tin Pan Alley Rag at Maltz Jupiter Theatre, and working as choreographic assistant to Tony Award-winning choreographer George Faison on If This Hat Could Talk.

 

Ms. Costas performed in the CBS broadcast of the Kennedy Center Honors, dancing in tribute to Judith Jamison. She toured internationally as a soloist with the Spiritual Singers of Harlem and performed as a dancer for the NBA’s New Jersey Nets. As a member of Residents Artists: Assembled, she performed at the Danspace Project and at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

 

Throughout her career, Ms. Costas has performed extensively across the United States, Europe, Canada, Asia, and South America. These experiences continue to inform her work as an artist, choreographer, and educator.

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A graduate of New York City’s LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, Ms. Costas earned a BFA from SUNY Purchase and an MFA through the Hollins University/American Dance Festival program.

 

 

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