Orlando Harbutt (he/him) is a dancer and collaborator originally from New York City. He spent part of his early childhood in Rome, Italy, before returning to the United States in 2011, where he began his formal dance training at the age of ten. He trained in ballet and hip hop before refining his classical technique at Manhattan Youth Ballet as the inaugural Men of Merit Scholarship recipient.

At 16, Orlando was accepted to The Juilliard School, where he studied under the direction of Alicia Graf Mack. During the pandemic, he spent a year training at Arts Umbrella under the direction of Artemis Gordon before returning to Juilliard to complete his Bachelor of Fine Arts while beginning his professional career with Ballet BC.

Orlando has performed works by William Forsythe, Marco Goecke, Sharon Eyal, Johan Inger, Johannes Wieland, Jiří Kylián, and Aszure Barton, and has originated roles in creations by Medhi Walerski, Crystal Pite, Imre and Marne van Opstal, Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber, David Raymond and Tiffany Tregarthen, and Shahar Binyamini, among others. This is Orlando’s fifth season with Ballet BC.