Previously, skilled dancer and actor Orlando Lucas has appeared with Recent Groove Productions in Vancouver, B.C., and with Showtime on the Apollo Theater in New York. Now Orlando has taken his dance strikes on-line, creating viral choreography and collaborating with different influencers on Tiktok (the place Orlando has over 1.8 million followers) and Instagram (the place he has over 163,000 followers).
Orlando the Actor
In addition to his work with viral choreography, Vancouver-born Orlando has appeared in a number of movies and TV collection, since age 8. He portrayed Ryan Ingram, the son of Liz Ingram (performed by Viola Davis) and John Ingram (performed by Vincent D’Onofrio), in Netflix’s The Unforgivable (2021). He was invited to attend the Crimson Carpet Premiere for the movie in Hollywood. He has additionally appeared in Altered Carbon, iZombie, Massive Sky River, and Zoo, and has guest-starred on The Good Physician.
Orlando has additionally voiced many roles in animated collection, together with StarBeam, The Hole, and Powerbirds.
Orlando the Dancer
The place Orlando’s efficiency expertise have actually shone, nonetheless, is in his dance, and it’s his strikes that his social media followers come to look at. Proficient in assorted road types, Orlando has created and carried out routines for hip-hop, afro, breaking, popping, lightfeet, home, and freestyle. He strikes throughout the worldwide stage with a uncooked, uncontainable vitality, with finesse to his footwork.
He spent 5 years with Recent Groove Productions (2019-2024), the place he educated beneath Mark Dogillo and Travis Lim, twice incomes a spot as a finalist at Hop Hop Worldwide. (He introduced house the Bronze in 2022 and Fifth on this planet in 2023.) Hopping over to New York in 2020, he served as a back-up dancer for Showtime on the Apollo throughout Capri Everitt’s efficiency.
Having skilled dance in high-intensity, reside leisure, Orlando joined New Zealand’s Id Dance Firm (IDCO) in 2024, the place he educated and carried out with the internationally acknowledged dance crew. The crew has obtained many awards from worldwide dance competitions, together with the Gold Medal on the World Dance Crew Championships Pacific Qualifiers and the Gold Medal on the Improve Australia Competitors. They’re set to characterize New Zealand on the upcoming World Dance Crew Championship Finals happening in Auckland from April 14 – 19. Orlando additionally carried out final 12 months at each the World of Dance Finals opening and shutting showcase and at Flip the Swap in Los Angeles.
“Dance has at all times been part of who I’m,” Orlando has shared. His work with IDCO and his performances around the globe have given him the chance to coach with expert dancers and choreographers like Riley Bourne, Kirsten Dodgen, and Joshua Cesan. Now he needs to share what he has realized with different dancers—each these he can encourage on Instagram and Tiktok, and together with his personal tight-knit workforce.
Just lately, Orlando introduced collectively his personal group of 9 dancers to type Crew 24, which has received the Gold on the Pacific Qualifiers, shifting on to the World Dance Crew Championship Finals, which is able to occur this month in Auckland. He additionally serves because the dance ambassador for a web-based dance faculty, Shluv Academy, along with Michael Le. On TikTok, he has created many choreographies that have been copied and tagged by thousands and thousands of different dancers.
With the World Dance Crew Championships about to start, Orlando Lucas is making ready to take the stage once more with the opposite dancers of Crew 24, representing Canada and New Zealand in one of many world’s largest dance competitions. Having danced from display screen to stage to social media, Orlando hopes to seize the creativeness of dance crew judges and of his thousands and thousands of social media followers as soon as once more.
