Aaron Salazar: Guest Dance Instructor, Choreographer

Aaron Jacob Salazar has been on stage performing since the age of 8 years old.  Trained as a legitimate singer, actor and dancer, with dozens of plays, musicals, dance productions and concerts under his belt, Salazar’s professional training is paramount to his vision of the entertainment industry and the professional level of product that it requires in order to have success in this business.  

As a teacher and choreographer, Salazar’s passion for his craft began at a very early age when at 15 years old, he was asked to choreograph a private High School’s production of FAME.  After that experience of feeling what it is like to see an idea turn into a reality, he was hooked.  Now in his late twenty’s Salazar has continued to pursue his career as both a performer on stage and a choreographer and instructor behind the scenes.

Since moving to New York City in the summer of ’99, Salazar has performed in the Broadway European Tour of GREASE as well as dancing as a guest artist at Barnard School at Columbia University and Now Dance at the Mulberry Street Theatre under H.T. Chen and Dancers. As well as guest dancing in the Nutcracker in Pennsylvania and dancing with the contemporary company Opus One under the direction of Lina McMenamin and Tim Early.  In 2004 Salazar was hired by the European Union to choreograph the "Physical Education Youth Campaign" for the Olympics in Athens. Featuring the Pop Group B3 (Germany's Largest selling Pop/Boy Band).

Salazar has simultaneously been steadily building a name for himself as an instructor and a choreographer for various companies and schools in the greater New York area. Currently Salazar is a resident choreographer and instructor at former ABT principal Vicky Simegiatos’s Performing Arts Center. Salazar is also a proud faculty member of the National Dance Competition/Convention Dancers Inc for which he is a Master Teacher & Judge. Salazar has also recently been appointed the position as the program “Head” and Director and Choreographer for the Broadway Training Center of Westchester’s 2007 Summer Musical Theatre Intensive.  As a teacher and choreographer, Salazar loves to give back and help young and professionals alike strive for excellence in their performance and execution of choreography and dance. His passion for the craft is what moves him to keep reaching for something fresh and exciting in the performing arts.

Having spent 15 years of his life thus far on stage and behind the scenes, Salazar feels confident with his experience  to teach others how to give a great performance, that (to paraphrase Martha Graham) …stems from something deeper than just technique.  At the core of all of Salazar’s performing, teaching and choreography is the emphasis on execution  and that proverbial  “fire” that is needed to be the best, if for one’s career, or just for the love of the arts.

  “…I sincerely love what I do on all levels, this is my heart and my life, and nothing makes me more content than being involved in the arts as a professional and a human being.”