Joey Arrigo

Joey Arrigo (they/them) is a dancer, acrobat, actor, and teacher currently residing downtown Toronto, ON. Joey was on tour with Cirque du Soleil’s VOLTA as the principal character of “Waz”.  They were also part of Cirque du Soleil’s KOOZA as “The Trickster”. Joey was featured on 90.7 FM Los Angeles IMRU Radio with Michael Taylor Gray on their segment “Storytellers”. Joey was on faculty with JUMP Dance Convention and was a member of Shaping Sound Dance Company’s first national tour in 2013. Since 2015, Joey has worked with Acrobatic Arts in creating tutorials for Acrobatic Dance found on YouTube, Instagram and for The Acrobatics Arts Training Program.

On top of many film and television credits, Joey was one of Canada’s Top 20 dancers on CTV’s “So You Think You Can Dance Canada”, and soon after, went on to perform for Ukraine’s “Everybody Dance”. Joey was a choreographer’s assistant to Mia Michaels on So You Think You Can Dance Canada, seasons 1, 2, and 3. In 2012, Joey was on a world tour with Rasta Thomas and The Bad Boys of Dance where they began their career dancing, choreographing, and teaching worldwide. This past summer, Joey was one of 5 dancers to be featured in the work of Jera Wolfe at “Festival Des Artes” in Saint-Saveur, QC under the direction of Guillaume Côté. Joey is currently working with Red Sky Performance and was seen featured in their work entitled “The Clan” as a part of CBC Gem’s art special “New Monuments (Luminato Project),” and on David Suzuki’s “The Nature of Things”. They were recently seen as “Jerry, The Aerobic Vampire” In season 3 of “What We Do in The Shadows.”