Leandro Glory Damasco Jr.

Mr. Leandro is a dancer, choreographer, educator, and filmmaker from Sacramento, CA. He started his professional dance career with Nicholas Leichter at the Joyce Theater in New York City and trained with Bay Area companies such as Joe Goode Performance, Axis Dance, Bandaloop, and Pauvfe Dance. He has appeared in Merce Cunningham's , staged by Jean Freebury, and trained with Richard Seigel of William Forsythe's Ballet Frankfurt during the American Dance Festivals. Mr. Leandro later joined the Los Angeles-based company DIAVOLO in 2012. He became the company's first resident choreographer, highlighting his choreography in the trilogy L'espace Du Temps, which first premiered at the Movimentos Festival in Wulfsburg, Germany.

As an avid traveler, Mr. Leandro's choreographic and teaching residencies include CSU Sacramento, Marin Academy, Scottsdale Community College, Utah Valley University, CSU Los Angeles, CALArts, University of Central Oklahoma, UC Irvine, and Santa Clara University. After completing and touring DIAVOLO's latest repertoire, L.O.S.T., and appearing on America's Got Talent, Mr. Leandro studied and earned his MFA in Dance from the University of California, Irvine, where he has assisted and performed world-renowned choreographer Lar Lubovitch's Northstar. In addition, Mr. Leandro developed his movement research and philosophy of Ebb and Floorwork, a movement methodology aimed at harmonizing the body with the floor by entering a flow state through mental and physical challenges.

At Santa Clara University, Leandro teaches Contemporary Dance, Performance Collaboration, Movement for Athletes, Hip Hop and Dance Cinematography. He is an international soloist, Director of Photography, and choreographer for dance films, with his works appearing internationally in the Nabla Festivals in Italy, Knowbox Dance Festivals in Mexico, Canada, South Korea, and Lebanon with the Lebanese Independent Film Festivals.