ARTIST BIO

Jay Carlon is a Los Angeles–based dancer, choreographer, and performance artist whose work facilitates shared healing while exploring post-colonial identity, ancestry, and the complex queer and Filipino experience. The youngest of twelve in a migrant family, Carlon connects a global network of Filipino creatives and communities through embodied storytelling and collective ritual.

Recipient of the 2024 Ellis-Beauregard Foundation Choreographer Award, Carlon has presented work at the Center for the Art of Performance UCLA, REDCAT, and the Filipino American National Historical Society. He has performed with The Industry Opera, Oguri, Bill T. Jones, the Metropolitan Opera, and most recently as a featured dancer in Miguel Gutierrez’s Super Nothing. Commercial work includes collaborations with Mndsgn, Kanye West, Solange Knowles, and Rodrigo y Gabriela. Carlon currently serves as associate director at Sway, where he has helped create custom works for the Olympics and the Super Bowl.

“If you want to be utterly transported, look to choreographer Jay Carlon.” — Dance Magazine

*Photo by Kenny Laubbacher

HOW TO SUPPORT

To join the community of support for Jay please contact erin@velocitydancecenter.org, or make a gift at the link below.