Patrick Piras

Patrick Piras is from Udine, Italy and began his dance training at the age of 6 focusing on professional ballroom dance. At age 14, Patrick started training at the invite of Arianna Zanello, who invited him to attend her school, Filodanza, and who later became his mentor. He then focused his training in ballet, modern, jazz, and contemporary dance and received scholarships to several summer intensives in Italy. Patrick came New York City to attend The Ailey School in 2013 where he graduated from the Scholarship Program. He has performed works by Alvin Ailey, Matthew Rushing, Ronnie Favors, Tracy Inman, Martin Lofsnes, Amy Hall, Darshan Bhuller, Nathan Trice, Nicholas Villenueve, Nai Ni Chen, Sheena Annalise and Christopher Rudd.  Patrick has performed Alvin Ailey's ballet, “Memoria” with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre at New York City Center in December 2014 and “Concurrence” representing The Ailey School in the Ailey Spirit Gala at David H. Koch Theatre in June 2016. Patrick has performed with companies such as 360° Dance Company, Nai Ni Chen Dance Company, Arch Contemporary Ballet and Jon Lehrer Dance Company. He has been on the ballet faculty at The Ailey School since 2018.