Linda Gelinas (she/her) has been on the Dance Faculty at Juilliard since 2016. She serves as the Dance Co-Director at the Metropolitan Opera. 
Linda was a principal dancer and Dance Captain at the Metropolitan Opera. She performed with Edward Villella and Dancers, The Eglevsky Ballet, Alexander Godunov and Friends, The Pavlova Celebration Tour, The Nureyev-Joffrey Ballet Tribute to Nijinsky, The Boston Repertory Company and more. Performing works by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Agnes de Mille, Edward Villella, Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux, Christopher Wheeldon, Mark Morris, Doug Varone, Alvin Ailey, Carmen De Lavallade, Bob Fosse, Robert LaFosse, Sean Curran among others.
In addition to Juilliard, Linda is on the faculty at Steps on Broadway, the Steps Pre Professional Youth Program, Ballet Academy East and the Hong Kong International Summer Program. 
She has also choreographed and taught for both the Miami City Ballet Summer and the Joffrey Summer Intensives and was ballet mistress for New York Dance Project and the Festival Company at the Chautauqua Institution.
She has taught at New York University, Indiana University, the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, Manhattan Youth Ballet, Broadway Dance Center, Ballet Arts, and Columbia Performing Arts Center and has been a guest teacher at multiple schools throughout the USA.

She is on the Artistic Advisory Board for the New Camerata Opera and was also the resident choreographer and movement coach for the Marcello Giordani Young Artist Program and the Opera Children’s Chorus, at the Crested Butte Music Festival.  There, she choreographed Carmen, Magic Flute, L’Elisir d’Amore, Hansel and Gretel, Barber of Seville and Pirates of Penzance. 
Ms. Gelinas received her formal training at the Joffrey Ballet School and the Boston Ballet School. She is also a certified Pilates instructor and a graduate of the New York Film Academy.