QUABA VENZA ERNEST

PERFORMER | TEACHING ARTIST

QUABA VENZA ERNEST is a St.Lucian-American dancer, choreographer, musician, filmmaker and teacher, originally from Brooklyn, New York. He began his training at Dance Theatre of Harlem under the direction of Arthur Mitchell & later Robert Garland. He is a graduate of Fiorello H. LaGuardia Arts High School, and SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Dance where he was selected as a recipient of an Adopt-A-Dancer Scholarship & The Thayer Fellowship in the Arts for Choreography/Dance. He began his career at Ballet BC in 2019, and later began working with Doug Varone and Dancers in 2021. He has danced in works by Kimberly Bartosik, George Balanchine, Ronald K. Brown, Sidra Bell, Norbert De La Cruz lll, Sharon Eyal, Johan Inger, Loni Landon, Sidi Larbi, Ana Maria Lucaciu, Ohad Naharin, Staycee Pearl, Crystal Pite, Jerome Robbins, Ted Shawn, and Medhi Walerski.