RANARDO-DOMEICO GRAYS is the founder/artistic director of VISIONS Contemporary Ballet and a member of the Screen Actors Guild and Actors Equity. He has performed with the Hartford City Ballet, Rebecca Kelly Ballet, Urban Wash Dance Company, LaToya Jackson Tour, Garth Fagan, Zack Morris, Celebrity Cruises, and has toured throughout the United States, Canada, the Caribbean and Europe. An alumnus of The Juilliard School, California Institute of the Arts (BFA), and the Alvin Ailey School, he is originally from Detroit, Michigan, where he attended and graduated from the Interlochen Arts Academy.
His company, VISIONS Contemporary Ballet, is an ethnically diverse company committed to presenting cross-cultural contemporary ballet works in artistically excellent concert dance performances to a wide range of communities; building new dance audiences; provoking thought and educating by creating and performing works which explore the human experience. VISIONS can be enjoyed by audiences of any age.
Ranardo has had acting roles in film (Slow Jam King, The Devil and Daniel Webster) and television (Canterbury’s Law), and was choreographer/co-host of VH-1’s Rock of Ages.
Ranardo, AFAA certified, has over ten years’ experience in the dance and fitness industry: teaching dance and strength training at New York Sports Club/TSI, where he also presented Master Class workshops such as Chicago, Sweet Charity, and A Chorus Line dance workouts, and at Equinox. He has taught Master Class workshops in Urban Fusion® in New York City; Afro-Latin-Funk at American Express' New York Corporate headquarters; and Contemporary Ballet at Marygrove College and the Detroit Windsor Dance Theater. Ranardo was Director of Dance at NYC’s Morris High School, where he staged and choreographed Bye Bye Birdie, West Side Story and Little Shop of Horrors.
His company, VISIONS Contemporary Ballet, is an ethnically diverse company committed to presenting cross-cultural contemporary ballet works in artistically excellent concert dance performances to a wide range of communities; building new dance audiences; provoking thought and educating by creating and performing works which explore the human experience. VISIONS can be enjoyed by audiences of any age.
Ranardo has had acting roles in film (Slow Jam King, The Devil and Daniel Webster) and television (Canterbury’s Law), and was choreographer/co-host of VH-1’s Rock of Ages.
Ranardo, AFAA certified, has over ten years’ experience in the dance and fitness industry: teaching dance and strength training at New York Sports Club/TSI, where he also presented Master Class workshops such as Chicago, Sweet Charity, and A Chorus Line dance workouts, and at Equinox. He has taught Master Class workshops in Urban Fusion® in New York City; Afro-Latin-Funk at American Express' New York Corporate headquarters; and Contemporary Ballet at Marygrove College and the Detroit Windsor Dance Theater. Ranardo was Director of Dance at NYC’s Morris High School, where he staged and choreographed Bye Bye Birdie, West Side Story and Little Shop of Horrors.
