Biography

Bo Anolani Brinton is a choreographer, educator, and dance scholar whose work explores the intersection of poetic minimalism and narrative abstraction. Drawing from a decade of professional performance experience with José Mateo Ballet Theatre, San Diego Ballet, BodyVox, and Dance Kaleidoscope, he crafts work that is emotionally resonant, subtly theatrical, and structurally refined.

His choreography invites audiences into intimate landscapes shaped by gesture, spatial clarity, and embodied metaphor. Grounded in a classical technical foundation yet shaped by somatic inquiry and queer theory, his artistic practice challenges conventional hierarchies of beauty, gender, and virtuosity.

As an educator, Bo brings a compassionate and rigorous approach to the studio. His teaching draws on Balanchine and contemporary ballet traditions alongside influences from Graham technique, Gyrokinesis, and phenomenological pedagogy. He is especially interested in cultivating spaces where students can explore dance as both physical practice and philosophical inquiry. Technical training becomes a site of self-discovery, cultural reflection, and critical thinking.

Currently pursuing his MFA in Dance at the University of Arizona, Bo’s research centers on queering ballet pedagogy, somatic literacy, and the role of embodied knowledge in performance and education. His writing and creative work seek to illuminate how the body thinks, remembers, and resists; how dance can offer not just aesthetic experience, but personal and collective transformation.

Bo is based in Tucson, Arizona, where he shares a home with his fiancé Richie and their two cats, Mohan and Vivienne.