William Valles Dance Career
Will is from Rhode Island where he studied at Rosemary’s School of Dance, Festival Ballet Providence, Trinity Repertory Company, the Jacqueline M Walsh School for the Performing & Visual Arts (diploma in dance, NHSDA member), & Heritage Ballet.
He is an Anthony Quinn Foundation scholarship recipient, & studied drama (BFA in acting) at the North Carolina School for the Arts. He apprenticed at the Williamstown Theater Festival in a world premiere play by Lucy Thurber, & in Sam Shepherd’s Curse of the Starving Class.
He has danced with Sheep Meadow Dance Theatre, Mary Seidman & Dancers, Alessandra Corona Performing Works, Westchester Ballet Company, Safe Haven Ballet, The Next Stage Project, & Ballet Nepantla! With Ballet Nepantla, he has performed in Battery Dance Festival, toured the US, & will be touring to Mexico! He was a featured dancer in promotional videos for Esperanza Spalding’s 12 Little Spells, is on faculty in the school at the Mark Morris Dance Center, and has performed some of Lynn Schwab’s tap repertory through the American Tap Dance Foundation.