Emiliano Rivera-Patton

Emiliano Rivera-Patton was born in Mexico City and moved back and forth between Seattle and Mexico City until the age of six. He started his pre-professional dance training at the age of ten at Evergreen City Ballet. After graduating high school, he joined Ballet Austin’s Butler Fellowship. While at Ballet Austin, Emiliano was featured in Stephen Mills’ The Nutcracker and Sleeping Beauty, as well as Alexander Anderson’s Desert Rose. He then moved to Vancouver to join the Arts Umbrella Post-Secondary Dance Program under the direction of Artemis Gordon.

Since joining Arts Umbrella, Emiliano has performed works by Crystal Pite, William Forsythe, Marco Goecke, Felix Landerer, Fernando Magadan, Aszure Barton, Stephen Shropshire, Lukas Timulak, Cyril Baldy, James Kudelka, Ethan Colangelo, and Wen Wei Wang. During the summers, he has had the joy of training with Nederlands Dans Theater, Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Rubberband, and the b12 festival in Berlin.