Dancer

Patrick Coker

A headshot of Patrick Coker
Patrick Coker Photo by Andrew Eccles

Patrick Coker (Chester, VA) (he/him) began dancing at Jessica Morgan’s School of Dance in Midlothian, Virginia, and later the Eastern Virginia School for the Performing Arts (EVSPA). He graduated from the Ailey/Fordham BFA Program in Dance in 2014. He has performed with Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, Jessica Lang Dance, the Mark Morris Dance Group, and BODYTRAFFIC. Coker has also danced with Jamar Roberts, the Bob Fosse Foundation, Joshua Beamish’s MOVE: The Company, HopeBoykinDance, and Earl Mosley’s Diversity of Dance. In 2018, he was an assistant to Jessica Lang as she choreographed EN on Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and he joined the Company in 2019. Find him on Instagram: @pcoke