Eric Trope

Eric Trope is a choreographer, ballet dancer, repetiteur, and community organizer. Eric’s latest creation was a work for the Lexington Ballet in collaboration with Ben Sollee and his band Kentucky Native. Eric also created a new Coffee Divertissement for the New Jersey Ballet’s annual production of The Nutcracker, under the leadership of Maria Kowroski. Prior to that, his work was seen on the Joffrey Ballet Concert Group in February 2023 after winning their Creative Movers Choreographic Initiative. Previously he showed work at the Nantucket Atheneum Dance Festival in July of 2021 with a festival-commissioned score by Timo Andres, after winning their 2020  “Choreo-contest.” Eric premiered works for the Miami City Ballet Pre-professional division and the Miami City Ballet outdoor pop-up series in 2021. In 2019, Eric’s work was presented at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts as part of the finale of the prestigious Mainly Mozart Festival. He was also selected to participate in the 2016 Fall Session of the New York Choreographic Institute, an affiliate of the New York City Ballet. His short film Patience was included in the 2019 Mobile Dance Film Festival. He has also made works for the Ballet on the Beach Festival, Dimensions Dance Theater of Miami, the New World Symphony, and the fundraiser Shut up and Dance. 

Eric finished his eighth season with the Miami City Ballet in April of 2021. He previously danced with the Pennsylvania Ballet for four seasons and most recently was a guest artist with BalletX and Ballet Tucson. Eric has danced a vast amount of repertoire including works by Balanchine, Robbins, Forsythe, Ratmansky, Taylor, Kylian, Peck, and many others. Some of his featured roles include Riff in Robbins' West Side Story Suite, Phlegmatic in Balanchine's The Four Temperaments, Johnny in Taylor's Company B, the principal man in Balanchine's Who Cares?, the Paul Taylor solo in Balanchine's Episodes, and “Taylor” in Justin Peck’s Rodeo.  Eric has toured extensively including the NY State Theater and NY City Center in NYC, the Music Center and Segerstrom Center in LA, the Kennedy Center, and the National Arts Centre in Ottawa. Eric participated in the dance workshop for Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story and appeared in the Marvelous Ms. Maisel. 

Eric has staged Justin Peck’s Heatscape for the Finnish National Ballet in Helsinki, Spain’s National Dance Company in Madrid, and The National Moravian-Silesian Theatre in the Czech Republic. Most recently, he helped staged Peck’s Rodeo at Semperoper Dresden Germany.  Finally, Eric is a cofounder of Buddy System, an nonprofit focused on food insecurity that was started in response to the Miami community’s immense need during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Buddy System has received national media attention for opening ten community fridges and operates large scale food distributions across Miami-Dade County.