tanya bello, artistic director / choreographer

Tanya Bello (Marymount Manhattan College B.F. A. in Dance) studied in the schools of Jose Limon and Martha Graham. After graduating, Tanya became the Assistant to the Artistic Director of the Martha Graham Dance Company and Trust and was promoted to Liaison for the Martha Graham Trust at the Library of Congress. She danced with Rincones & Company Dance Theater, Cross Currents Dance Company, NY2, City Dance Ensemble, and Bowen McCauley Dance and worked with choreographers Dana Tai Soon Burgess, and Adrian Bolton. She was on the Board of Directors for the Loudoun Arts Council as well as taught for Virginia Ballet, the Dance Academy of Loudoun, and the Children’s House of Washington. Tanya had the opportunity to live in Italy for one year where she taught master classes in the Tuscan, Marche, and Abruzzo Regions of Italy as well as performed with Arya Theat’art Danza Compagna. In 2005, she relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area and currently teaches at Sonoma State University, Dominican University,  Alonzo King Lines Ballet, and the ODC School working closely with KT Nelson and Kimi Okada.   In the Bay Area, she has performed with Erin Derstine, Liberation Dance Theater, Shared Space under Nol Simonse, SHIFT Physical Theater, Robert Moses’ Kin, Mark Foehringer, and ODC/ Dance. She was a soloist with Garrett/ Moulton Productions and was a repetiteur for both Janice Garrett’s and Charles Moulton’s work from 2005-2013.  She was a resident artist at the Garage SF and Tres Sabores Winery in Rutherford, CA and a recipient of the 2013 CHIME Award.  Tanya is the founder, artistic director,  and choreographer of Project. B. Dance.

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