ALONSO GUZMAN is a native Puerto Rican. As a child, Alonso dedicated his entire childhood to studying martial arts – Tae Kwon Doh and Muay Thai training was his passion until he immigrated to the United States. He accomplished 1st prize in the high-jump wood-breaking category at the 2007 US OPEN Mix Martial Arts in Orlando, FL.

By 17, with the support of the Oprah Winfrey Foundation Scholarship and the Olive Tree Foundation, he moved to NYC to study at The Ailey School. Alonso later worked as a dance demonstrator for Mr. Milton Myers at The Juilliard School, The Ailey School, and Steps Dance Studio.

The Ailey School is an accredited institutional member of the National Association of Schools of Dance (NASD).

After graduating from The Ailey School he worked with various ballet and contemporary programs such as Ballet Hispanico I and II, The Metropolitan Opera House, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, and Karole Armitage.

Jacob’s Pillow is a National Historic Landmark and recipient of the National Medal of Arts, the highest arts award given by the United States Government; making the Pillow the first dance presenting organization to receive this prestigious award

He also danced in Madison Square Garden for PHISH New Year’s 2016/17 concert, for Marc Jacob’s fashion show at the Armory under Karole Armitage’s artistic vision in 2020.

Alonso is proud to be one of the artists the Kuperman Brothers have trusted for years when it comes to movement consultation and choreographic brainstorming for high-end productions happening on Broadway, off-broadway, commercials, and music video productions.

In 2016, Alonso met Dardo Galletto. Dardo taught him everything about Argentine Tango. Together they produced numerous sold-out productions in Dardo’s Times Square studio formerly Dardo Galletto Studios and in New York Live Arts theater. –See production portfolio clicking here.

By July 2018, Alonso founded Alonso Guzman Danza Inc., a NYC-based non-profit dance company, and together with Dardo Galletto Studios he had the pleasure to produced two sold-out dance festivals:

Blueprint Dance Festival, 2017.
Dance:Call, 2019.

After 10 years of dance business, Covid arrived in the US and Dardo Galletto Studios was forced to close permanently.

Alonso and Dardo decided to move together into Connecticut.

They spent their whole lives savings to purchase an abandoned dairy goat farm that with lots of effort they have transformed into the place they call home.

Together, Alonso and Dardo travel across CT and NY teaching their passion, Argentine Tango.

In 2023 they incorporated Galletto & Guzman Dance LLC, DBA Southbury Dance Company.

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