Nick Korkos

Joaquin Ruiz

Native San Franciscan Nicholas Korkos has performed with Alonzo King LINES Ballet, Les Ballet Jazz de Montreal, Aszure Barton & Artists, the Metropolitan Opera, LA Opera, San Francisco Opera, Opera Omaha, six times with the San Francisco Symphony, SF DanceWorks, Hubbard Street 2, Loni Landon Dance Project, Zhukov Dance Theatre, Robert Moses’ KIN, project agora, tinypistol, and has developed new work with Sonya Tayeh, Josh Prince, and Reed Luplau, respectively. In addition to performing, Korkos teaches at various schools including the LINES Ballet Education programs, Gibney Dance, Peridance Center, Steps on Broadway, and teaches classes for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and the Gibney Company. In 2021 he conceived, directed, choreographed, performed in, and crowdfunded for the dance film Being Alive, a Dance. Korkos was recently featured as one of two dancers navigating life and love in the James Kinney/Pierre Marais documentary short Bound by a Thread.