Lorenzo Pagano
Lorenzo Pagano is an international award-winning contemporary performer whose career has spanned across concert dance, theatre and opera. He started his career by joining the Martha Graham Dance Company in 2012, becoming a Principal Guest Artist and Assistant Rehearsal Director in 2023. He has embodied the most iconic male roles of the repertory and originated starring roles for new works by Lucinda Childs, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Nacho Duato, Andonis Foniadakis, Pontus Lidberg, Hofesh Shechter among others. In addition, Pagano is a regisseur for the Martha Graham Center and has restaged ballets for UNCSA, Rome Opera Ballet School, and Joffrey Ballet in Chicago.
In 2024, Pagano was part of the original cast of the musical GATSBY choreographed by Sonya Tayeh and directed by Rachel Chavkin, with music by Florence Welch and Thomas Bartlett.
He performed during the 24/25 season at the Metropolitan Opera Ballet in the productions Ainadamar (Deborah Colker) and Anthony and Cleopatra (Annie-B Parson).
Pagano has been a guest artist for the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company and La Compañia Nacional de Danza de Costa Rica, and he danced in Unveiling choreographed by Sonya Tayeh with music by Moses Sumney.
He has danced with Paris Opéra, former Étoile, and Artistic Director Aurélie Dupont in Martha Graham’s Lament and partnered Royal Ballet Principal Dancer Joseph Sissens in US by Christopher Wheeldon at PAAX in Mexico.
In 2023, he was Assistant Choreographer for the Holiday Event in collaboration with Christian Dior and Martha Graham Company at Sack’s NYC.
Pagano was honored with the Italian International Dance Award as “Male Rising Star” in 2016 and the Premio Nazionale La Sfera d’Oro in 2022.
