Matt Pardo, MFA, AEA, has performed in the Eisenhower Dance Ensemble, River North Chicago Dance Company (apprentice), Pittsburgh Opera, GroundWorks DanceTheatre, in Einstein on the Beach (Olivier Award – Best Opera) and with the Lucinda Childs Dance Company among others. Dance Europe Magazine selected him as a ‘Top 100 dancer in the world’ for 2010/11 and called him ‘an artist to watch’. Pardo is a co-founder and co-director of the producing organization The Blanket, which is now producing Lucinda Childs Dance Company, among others. As a choreographer and teacher, he has worked for institutions such as the American Dance Festival, Point Park University, Elon University, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre School and Slippery Rock University. Pardo is an associate professor at James Madison University.
