05/14/2026
✨ Introducing Miami Dances 2026 Participating Artists: Choreographer Durante Verzola!
Durante will present a duet from his ballet ‘Hit On All Sixes,’ as part of Miami Dances 2026 on May 20 at Sandrell Rivers Theater.
Durante Verzola is a 28-year-old, Filipinx American choreographer. Verzola’s first choreographic work, A Light Exists in Spring, was chosen by Lourdes Lopez to be performed in Miami City Ballet School’s 2014 Workshop. Since then, he has choreographed several works for Miami City Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet II, Ballet Dallas, Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, Ballet Chicago, Columbia Ballet Collaborative (Columbia University), Goucher College, School of Pennsylvania Ballet, Kansas School of Classical Ballet, Peabody Dance, Princeton University Ballet, Ballet Conservatory of South Texas, and MANNA’s Shut Up & Dance. Mr. Verzola was selected as the inaugural choreographer to lead Miami City Ballet School’s Choreographic Intensive during the Summer of 2017, as well as invited to participate in CPYB’s ChoreoPlan 2017. He is a winner of Joffrey’s Winning Works, which recognizes talented and emerging ALAANA choreographers. He was invited to the Center for Ballet and the Arts at New York University for an Artistic Partnership Initiative Fellowship with Miami City Ballet in the Summer of 2021. Verzola participated in the Fall 2021 Session at New York Choreographic Institute where he worked with the dancers of New York City Ballet.
To learn more about Durante Verzola visit him at www.verzolaballet.com
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Supported by the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners.