choreography

In the initial stages, stand-ins perform the 37 entries, allowing participants to review staging, choreography and lighting cues before contestants arrive in Switzerland at the start of May.

Trujillo, who is originally from Cali, Colombia, was undocumented for several years in Toronto before moving to New York to pursue a career in musical theater choreography.

“Oohs” rippled through the class as students began to kneel down in position to begin the choreography.

She arrived onstage inside a giant car exo-skeleton, like a hip-hop Transformer, and sped through her set with pin-sharp choreography and boundless good humour.

She also reimagined famous choreography from ballets like “The Nutcracker” and “Sleeping Beauty.”