Austin Westbay
Acting
Biography
AUSTIN WESTBAY is a professional dancer who resides in Los Angeles. For the past six years he has toured internationally with the pop singer Kesha. As a back-up dancer he has done numerous television appearances and performed in front of thousands. Austin has worked for leading choreographers, including Ryan Heffington and Fatima Robinson. He has also had the pleasure of being a part of film projects directed by Hype Williams and Alma Har’el. Some of his more recent credits include music videos for Pharrell Williams, Daft Punk, Sigur Rós, and Arcade Fire, as well as being featured in the second season of the hit show Transparent. Throughout the years, dance has gracefully lead Austin onto the path of yoga and the healing arts. He is a registered yoga instructor and has been teaching and assisting for two years. Currently, he is in the process of applying to Five Branches University, a traditional Chinese medicine program in Santa Cruz, CA.
Known For
Aspiring singer Tori Vega navigates life while attending a performing arts high school called Hollywood Arts.
Victorious
Sigur Rós have given a dozen film makers the same modest budget and asked them to create whatever comes into their head when they listen to songs from the band's album Valtari. The idea is to bypass the usual artistic approval process and allow people utmost creative freedom. These 16 films are the result. Sad, funny, beautiful and, occasionally, plain bewildering, they represent just some of the available emotional responses to this most contemplative album.
Sigur Rós: Valtari Film Experiment
A raunchy Vampire Musical. The sexy-violent musical is full of hot dancing, drug addled nymphettes, existential zombies and gallons of blood. A Zappa Zombie trying to kill a Backstreet Boy Vampire...no really.
Vampire Burt's Serenade
After killing the owner of a B-rated strip club, Burt, an indulgent vampire with a zest for life, hides out (and dopes up) at an upscale drug den, until the strippers seek revenge... and...
The Bloody Indulgent
An innocent tourist travels to LA and unexpectedly conjures her sister's last night alive. Bold score, stylized dance and an eccentric cast, shot at The Standard Hotel, weave a dark and luminous film that revamps traditional narrative.
Sleepover LA
From visionary choreographer, Denna Thomsen and award-winning filmmaker Phillip Montgomery, CHILD OF THE SKY is the haunting story of a young woman who wakes in the desert, lost and cold. She is summoned by a powerful force to a strange woman who takes her in - but there is a price.
Child of the Sky
Music video for Arcade Fire's "We Exist".