Darius Barnes is an American dancer, director, and choreographer who is rumored to be dead at age 34.

He is popularly known as the assistant director of Smash (2012), Arthur Miller Foundation Honors (2020), and Halston (2021), which were monumental movies of their respective times. Despite his direction skills, he is an excellent dancer. 

What Happened To Darius Barnes?

Darius Barnes is alive and is living his life being busy in his daily schedule. However, rumors of his death started to pop out recently on social media platforms which have kept viewers in a dilemma. Nobody knows who or how this news emerged. Almost 80% of his pictures on the internet are black and white, so people might have thought that he had passed, and to tribute to his legacy, people have posted more black and white photos of him.

He hasn’t personally come fore ward to deny the rumors, but it is evident that he is still alive. Barnes posted a series of photos on his Instagram four weeks ago, making it his last interaction with his fans on social media.

Darius Barnes Death Or Alive Facts

Barnes is alive and is performing well in his dance activities as well. Darius made his Metropolitan Opera debut in Terence Blanchard’s version of Charles M. Blow’s stirring autobiography; a fire shut up in my bones, which won him a Grammy.

This new staging was co-directed by James Robinson and Camille A. Brown, who also served as the performance’s choreographer. Brown was the first black director to design a mainstage Met production. Kimberly Akimbo’s associate choreographer at the Atlantic Theater Company is Darius.

He got his start in choreography by being invited to the New York Choreographic Institute. He was asked to produce a piece about the New York City Ballet for the institute’s 10th-anniversary celebration.

 Where Is Darius Barnes Now?

Darius is a member of the School of American Ballet’s Alumni Advisory Committee on Diversity and Inclusion and the teaching staff and adjudication panel for the move(NYC). In addition, he has presented master’s courses at the Baltimore School for the Arts, the Broadway Collective, the Broadway Dance Center in New York, and Operation Triple Threat in Barbados.

The actor serves as an adjunct professor at the dance conservatory at St. Paul’s School for Girls in Baltimore, Maryland, and Greenwich Dance Studio in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Darius works as Kimberly Akimbo’s associate choreographer at the Atlantic theater group. He started choreographing after receiving an invitation to the New York Choreographic Institute. He was commissioned to do a piece on the modern York City Ballet for the institute’s 10th-anniversary celebration. ‘To be in contact,’ his new ballet debuted on Carolina ballet as a part of their choreographer’s spotlight series.

Darius Barnes Family Details

Darius is a talented dancer and an extremely private person. He hasn’t revealed any information regarding his personal life. However, he is always professional in every interview he has given. His Instagram profile is also full of pictures of his professional life. At age 5, he started taking dance classes at various Baltimore, Maryland, schools.

Before being admitted to the School of American Ballet in 2004, he attended Baltimore School for The Arts. Darius performed every year in the School of American Ballet Spring Workshops while attending the School of American Ballet on the Rudolf Nureyev Scholarship. He received an apprenticeship offer from the New York City Ballet in 2007 and joined the corps de ballet in 2008.

He is a dancer at the Metropolitan Opera right now. He produced several choreographic pieces and was invited to participate in the spring and summer 2007–2009 sessions of the New York Choreographic Institute.