Dancer

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 in Dance program 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

Two dancers in front of a screen that looks like a lowering orange sun. They are wearing big hats and have church fans.

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