NYC-Based Dance Theater Ensemble
<p>Danielle Russo Dance Company (DRDC) is a NYC-based dance theatre ensemble. Since its inception in 2006, choreographer Danielle Russo has been presented throughout the metropolis by various venues and organizations such as the American Dance Guild, Association of Performing Arts Presenters, Atlas Theater, BAAD!, Chez Buschwick, Dance New Amsterdam, dancenOw/NYC, DUMBO Dance Festival, Green Space, HERE Arts Center, H.T. Chen Dance Center, The Flea, The Tank, Triskelion Arts Center, Wave Rising Series, and Williamsburg Art neXus, and elsewhere at the American Dance Festival (Durham, NC), C.N.N. - Ballet de Lorraine (Nancy, France), Danscentrum Jette (Brussels, Belgium), Mercyhurst College (Erie, PA), The Yard (Martha’s Vineyard, MA) and WUK's Im_flieger (Vienna, Austria). In 2007, Russo co-directed and produced the emerging choreographers initiative <em>The New Groundings Dance Project</em>. In 2008 - 2009, she was a contributing choreographer in the Bessie Schoenberg Alumni Workshop at New York University and an artist in residence at dancenOw/NYC Silo. Russo served on faculty at Hollins University in 2010 and the American College Dance Festival Association’s Northeast Conference at Muhlenberg College in 2011. She attended the annual Performática as a guest artist coaching, creating and collaborating with other international movement and multimedia-makers in Puebla and Cholula, Mexico in April 2012. Most recently, she was selected as an Emerging Choreographer for the upcoming Springboard Danse Montréal in June 2012. Acclaimed dance critic Deborah Jowitt has hailed Russo for her “[d]ramatically eloquent athleticism”.(The Village Voice, 2008)</p> <p> </p> <p>Russo is a recipient of a BFA in Dance and a BA in Anthropology from New York University (Tisch School of the Arts), and a MFA in Dance from Hollins University | American Dance Festival where she attended on fellowship. Additionally, she adjacently trained at the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance in Austria while pursuing her undergraduate degrees. </p>