Stefano Gallelli

Canadian-born Stefano began his training at Elitedanceworx just outside Toronto. In 2019, he joined dance ensemble Moving 4ward and wowed a global audience as a contestant on the TV series World Of Dance, produced by Jennifer Lopez. Later that year, he received a scholarship for the prestigious Glorya Kaufman School of Dance at the University of Southern California, where he shone in a great variety of styles and works by William Forsythe, Ohad Naharin, Jiří Kylián, Justin Peck, and Kyle Abraham, among others. In the summer of 2022, he made his international debut with USC Kaufman at Stadttheater Fürth. In 2023 he graduated from USC with a Bachelor in Fine Arts in Dance – before moving on directly to the Gauthier Dance JUNIORS in the 2023/24 season. The next steps in his career proved to be just as prompt. After only one year, Stefano was promoted to the main company. In his very first season, none other than Akram Khan entrusted him with a leading part: in Turning of Bones, the sensation of the COLOURS Festival 2025, Stefano gave a powerful performance as a young outsider who falls in love with the daughter of the tribal elder ...