Miguel Alejandro Castillo

Miguel Alejandro Castillo Le Maitre is a queer interdisciplinary artist from Caracas, Venezuela. Named one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” in 2024, he is the 2025–2026 Opera Directing Fellow at Juilliard’s Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts. A director, choreographer, installation artist, and performer, Castillo is drawn to the permeability of art forms and the generative possibilities of cross-disciplinary, multicultural collaboration.

His work is community-oriented and self-reflexive, blending expressionistic dance theatre with visual allegories of Latin American and Caribbean life. His research investigates diasporic imagination, future folklore, and performance as a vessel for intimacy, resistance, and connection.

Castillo choreographed David Lang’s “prisoner of the state” for the New York Philharmonic, Barbican Centre, and Malmö Opera, and John Adams’ “The Gospel According to the Other Mary” at the Volksoper in Vienna. With the Met Opera and countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo, he devised site-specific works for Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Brooklyn Museum, Lincoln Center, and the New York Hall of Science.

A Pina Bausch Fellowship cooperating partner, he is currently conducting intergenerational research with his 93-year-old grandmother. Castillo performs nationally and internationally in Faye Driscoll’s Weathering, and has worked with Jeanine Durning, Maria Hassabi, Tzveta Kassabova and others. He holds a B.A. from Middlebury College and an M.F.A. from Smith College.

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