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Danielle Diniz
Danielle Diniz has choreographed the Off-Broadway production of 'An Unbalanced Mind' and the Vaudevillian musical 'On the Air,' has served as Associate Choreographer for Lorin Latarro, was a choreographer for DanceBreak NYC and currently choreographs and assistant directs intermittent musical theater showcases at The American Musical and Dramatic Academy. She was awarded a grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts/City Artist Corps to present a full evening of her choreography in 2021 and has been commissioned to create new works for Jacob's Pillow, Performance Santa Fe, Avant Chamber Ballet, two ballets for Columbia Ballet Collaborative, Ballet Hartford, Woman in Motion and Central Utah Ballet.
She has an upcoming ballet for Ballet Excel Ohio, a commission from the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning for their Making Moves Festival and will be the Artist in Residence for CUNY Dance Initiative at Tribeca BMCC 22/23. She will also present work at the McCallum Theatre/Palm Desert Choreography Festival, the New York Theatre Barn Choreography Lab at Baryshnikov Arts Center and Earl Mosley's Diversity of Dance 'Dancing Beyond.'
She is a winner of the New York Dance Project Choreography Competition, a junior board member of Jazz Choreography Enterprises and her work has been shown in Stars of American Ballet rep, New York Choreographers' Forum, the Steps Beyond Foundation performance lab, Nebula Dance Festival and the Higher Ground Festival, among others.
She is on faculty at Kanyok Arts Initiative and Manhattan Youth Ballet and has also enjoyed teaching for Peridance, EMIA, Manhattan Dance Artistry, Manhattan Ballet School, Montana Ballet, Ballet Hartford, Dance Conservatory of Charleston, NextGeneration Ballet and Dance Open.