AARON CHOATE (they/them, Lexington, KY) is a graduate of The Juilliard School class of 2022. After studying at Diana Evans School of Dance in Kentucky, they were named a 2018 Presidential Scholar in the Arts. They have performed the works of renowned choreographers, such as Kyle Abraham, Aszure Barton, Bob Fosse/ Gwen Verdon, Ohad Naharin, Justin Peck, Matthew Rushing, Jamar Roberts, Bobbi Jene Smith, Rennie Harris, Lar Lubovitch, and Ted Shawn. They are also an avid choreographer. In 2025 they were an Emerging Choreographer for Springboard Danse Pittsburgh’s 25th anniversary. In the same year they created a work for the composition department of Princeton for their semi-annual “Sound Kitchen”. Summer of 2023 they had a process at Gibney Dance called the Moving Towards Justice Fellowship created by Scott Autry and in 2022, they presented a work at 92nd Street Y as a part of the Future Dance Festival.