Leandro Glory Damasco Jr.

Leandro Glory Damasco, Jr. is a dancer, choreographer, photographer, and filmmaker from Sacramento, CA. He started his professional dance career with Nicholas Leichter in New York City. He trained with Bay Area companies such as Joe Goode Performance, Axis Dance, Project Bandaloop, and Pauvfe Dance. Leandro later joined the LA based company, DIAVOLO, in 2012 and became the company’s first resident choreographer with his choreography highlighted in the trilogy L’espace Du Temps, which first premiered at the Movimentos Festival in Wulfsburg Germany.

Leandro’s teaching residencies include CSU Sacramento, Marin Academy, Scottsdale Community College, Utah Valley University, CSU Los Angeles, CALArts, University of Central Oklahoma, and UC Irvine. After completing DIAVOLO’s latest repertoire L.O.S.T. and appearing in America’s Got Talent Leandro earned his MFA in Dance from the UC Irvine where he developed his movement philosophy and technique called Ebb and Floorwork, a movement methodology aimed to harmonize the body with the floor by entering a flow state through mental and physical challenges. Leandro currently teaches contemporary/modern dance at Santa Clara University and is a sought after Director of Photography in dance film, with recent works appearing internationally in the Nabla Festivals in Italy.