Courtney Ortiz

COURTNEY ORTIZ is a professional dancer, educator, choreographer, adjudicator and proud YoungARTS award winner based in New York City. Her professional dance and teaching career has allowed her to travel the world performing in places such as: Dubai, Brazil, China, England, Poland, Canada, Mexico, Spain, Germany, Australia, and France. Her career spans from stage to screen with credits including: the Broadway National Tour of ‘Finding Neverland’, Lin Manuel Miranda’s ‘In The Heights’, ‘The Radio City Christmas Spectacular featuring The Rockettes’, and the first ever revival in 30 years of ‘Jerome Robbins’ Broadway’ performed at The Muny and Theater Under the Stars! You can also catch Courtney’s feet tap dancing in the hit FX series, “Fosse/Verdon”, where she was the dance double for Young Bob Fosse!

One of her favorite and most memorable credits was performing throughout Europe on the International Tour of the classic musical ‘West Side Story’ and in 2025, she remounted the original Jerome Robbins’ choreography alongside Josh Bergasse as the Assistant Choreographer for ‘West Side Story’ at the LA Opera. Throughout her time in the professional dance industry she has worked with and learned from legendary choreographers like Cynthia Onrubia, Chase Brock, Christopher Gattelli, Michael Balderrama, Joey McKneely, Lorin Latarro, Jon Rua, Susan Misner, Parker Esse, Josh Prince, Chris Bailey, Luis Salgado, Richard J. Hinds and many more.

Outside of performing, Courtney is an international dance educator and in-demand dance adjudicator. She has been teaching at numerous dance conventions for the last decade and is the current Jazz Faculty at Streetz Dance Convention. Recently, Courtney was invited to teach at the 16th Annual Congresso de Jazz Dance held in São Paulo, Brazil and the Jazz It! Dance Festival in Barcelona, Spain. She also serves as the current Audition Choreographer with RWS Global where she travels the world auditioning dancers for future opportunities on cruise ships. She teaches regularly in New York City on faculty at the prestigious Steps on Broadway and is a proud member of the Choreographers’ Guild. She also is the owner of Impact Dance Adjudicators and the host of their popular dance podcast Making The Impact – A Dance Competition Podcast. Follow her dance journey on instagram @courtney.ortiz