Linda Gelinas

Linda Gelinas is the Artistic Dance Co-Director of the Metropolitan Opera. She was the Dance Captain and a principal dancer at the Met, before her directorship.  Prior to the Met, Linda began her professional career at age 17 performing with Edward Villella and Dancers and the Eglevsky Ballet, both under the direction of Edward Villella. She has also performed with Alexander Godunov and Friends, the Pavlova Celebration Tour, the Nureyev-Joffrey Ballet tribute to Nijinsky, Boston Repertory Company, among others.

Her diverse repertoire includes works by Alvin Ailey, George Balanchine, Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux, Sean Curran, Carmen de Lavallade, Agnes de Mille, Bob Fosse, Robert LaFosse, Mark Morris, Alexei Ratmansky, Jerome Robbins, Doug Verone, Edward Villella, and Christopher Wheeldon. She has also performed the role of Louise in a New England tour of Carousel.

Gelinas  is on the faculty at Steps on Broadway and  has also taught at New York University, the Hong Kong International Dance Intensive, the Miami City Ballet School, the Joffrey School, Ballet Hispanico, Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, Manhattan Youth Ballet, Broadway Dance Center, Ballet Arts, Columbia Performing Arts Center, the Verona Summer Dance Lab, served as Rehearsal Director for the Festival Company at the Chautauqua Institution, and is a guest teacher for New York City Dance Alliance. 

She was the resident choreographer and dance instructor for the Marcello Giordani Young Artist Program and the Opera Children’s Chorus at the Crested Butte Music Festival. She received her formal dance training at the Joffrey Ballet School and the Boston Ballet School. She is a certified Pilates instructor and a graduate of the New York Film Academy. Gelinas has been on the faculty at Juilliard since 2016.