"Also worth noting in the ensemble is Danielle Diniz who adds really great spunk, energy and enthusiasm to her dance numbers..."- VancityVice
Danielle Diniz is a dancer and choreographer based in New York City.
Danielle recently completed her time as Artist in Residence at Tribeca BMCC via CUNY Dance Initiative for the 2022/2023 season, fully choreographing and directing her own evening of repertory. This past spring she choreographed 'My Way' at Theatre by the Sea and became Associate Artistic Director of Jazz Choreography Enterprises. She is choreographing for the Ailey BFA program and New York Dance Project this fall as well as St. Paul's ballet program in the winter of 2024 and Ballet Hartford in the spring.
She has been commissioned to create new works for Jacob's Pillow, Performance Santa Fe, Avant Chamber Ballet, Columbia Ballet Collaborative, Stars of American Ballet, Ballet Hartford, Woman in Motion, Ballet Excel Ohio, Central Utah Ballet, Earl Mosley's Diversity of Dance and the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning.
She was a featured choreographer for DanceBreak (musical theater's leading platform for upcoming Broadway choreographers), made her Off-Broadway choreographic debut at the AMT Theatre with 'An Unbalanced Mind,' presented work at the McCallum Theatre/Palm Desert Choreography Festival and the New York Theatre Barn Choreography Lab held at Baryshnikov Arts Center and was awarded a grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts/City Artist Corps to present a full evening of her choreography.
She is a winner of the New York Dance Project Choreography Competition, a junior board member of Jazz Choreography Enterprises and a choreographic mentor for We Are Queens. She also choreographed the AEA production of the Vaudevillian musical 'On the Air,' currently choreographs and assistant directs intermittent musical theater showcases at The American Musical and Dramatic Academy and has served as Associate Choreographer for Lorin Latarro.
She is on faculty at Kanyok Arts Initiative and Manhattan Youth Ballet and also enjoys teaching for Steps on Broadway, Mark Morris and Peridance.
Danielle has a B.A. in English (concentration in Shakespearean Studies, minor in Dance) from Cornell University.
Danielle recently completed her time as Artist in Residence at Tribeca BMCC via CUNY Dance Initiative for the 2022/2023 season, fully choreographing and directing her own evening of repertory. This past spring she choreographed 'My Way' at Theatre by the Sea and became Associate Artistic Director of Jazz Choreography Enterprises. She is choreographing for the Ailey BFA program and New York Dance Project this fall as well as St. Paul's ballet program in the winter of 2024 and Ballet Hartford in the spring.
She has been commissioned to create new works for Jacob's Pillow, Performance Santa Fe, Avant Chamber Ballet, Columbia Ballet Collaborative, Stars of American Ballet, Ballet Hartford, Woman in Motion, Ballet Excel Ohio, Central Utah Ballet, Earl Mosley's Diversity of Dance and the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning.
She was a featured choreographer for DanceBreak (musical theater's leading platform for upcoming Broadway choreographers), made her Off-Broadway choreographic debut at the AMT Theatre with 'An Unbalanced Mind,' presented work at the McCallum Theatre/Palm Desert Choreography Festival and the New York Theatre Barn Choreography Lab held at Baryshnikov Arts Center and was awarded a grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts/City Artist Corps to present a full evening of her choreography.
She is a winner of the New York Dance Project Choreography Competition, a junior board member of Jazz Choreography Enterprises and a choreographic mentor for We Are Queens. She also choreographed the AEA production of the Vaudevillian musical 'On the Air,' currently choreographs and assistant directs intermittent musical theater showcases at The American Musical and Dramatic Academy and has served as Associate Choreographer for Lorin Latarro.
She is on faculty at Kanyok Arts Initiative and Manhattan Youth Ballet and also enjoys teaching for Steps on Broadway, Mark Morris and Peridance.
Danielle has a B.A. in English (concentration in Shakespearean Studies, minor in Dance) from Cornell University.