Styles: Jazz, Musical Theater
Experience (select list)
Conventions: REVEL Dance Convention, Excel in Motion, Turn It Up
Popular Studios: Steps on Broadway (New York)
Highlights: Jerome Robbins' Broadway - The Muny, West Side Story - International Tour, Finding Neverland - National Tour
Courtney Ortiz, a native of Baltimore MD, is a 2007 youngARTS award winner in Modern Dance. Her professional dance career has allowed her to travel the world performing in places such as: Canada, Alaska, Mexico, Spain, Germany, Australia and France. Her career spans from Stage to Screen with credits including: Company Member with The Chase Brock Experience, Choreographer and Dancer on Youtube’s hit web series “The Key of Awesome”, Backup Dancer for PSY and Chris Brown on “The Today Show”, Dancer for Heidi Klum at Madison Square Garden in “Macy’s Fashion Front Row” on E! Network, The Radio City Christmas Spectacular, and Lin Manuel Miranda’s In The Heights. One of her most favorite and most memorable credits was performing throughout Europe on the International Tour of the classic musical West Side Story as a Jet Girl and the Assistant Dance Captain.
Some of her other memorable credits include the 1st National Tour of the Broadway Musical Finding Neverland and Lin Manuel Miranda’s In The Heights. You can also catch Courtney’s feet tap dancing in FX’s “Fosse/Vernon”, where she was the dance double for Young Bob Fosse! Outside of performing, she is a master teacher on numerous Dance Conventions (REVEL, Excel in Motion) and also a full time competition judge. Currently, she resides in New York City.
