Networking within the dance community is a vital part of a dancer's professional career. By providing access to these guest choreographers and mentors, DASH Academy is helping to lay the foundation for pre-professional dancers. Through building relationships with these guest artists, pre-professional dancers have benefited in a multitude of ways such as invitations to summer intensives, reference letters written on their behalf, etc.

The winner of this Guest Artist Experience will receive:

Dinner with the guest artist
One 30 minute virtual mentor session w/ the guest artist
Two tickets to the 2024 DASH Academy Winter Show

About Loni:

Loni Landon is a Dancer, Choreographer, and Movement Consultant based in New York City. In addition to creating dances for her own collective Loni Landon Dance Project, her work is commissioned by Dance Companies and Film Directors across the country. Born and raised in New York City, Landon received her BFA in Dance from The Juilliard School. While a student at LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts, Landon was AN NFAA Young Arts Modern Dance Winner. After Juilliard, Landon performed with Aszure Barton and Artists, Ballet Theater Munich, Tanz Munich Theater, and The Metropolitan Opera.

Landon is a Princess Grace Choreography Fellowship Winner And A NYFA Finalist in CHOREOGRAPHY. As a sought after choreographer, her work has been commissioned by Keigwin and Company, BODYTRAFFIC, James Sewell Ballet, Whim Whim, LEVY DANCE, The Juilliard School, American Dance Institute, Northwest Dance Project, Groundworks Dance Company, Hubbard Street, BalletX, Ballet Austin, SUNY Purchase, NYU, Boston Conservatory, and Marymount Manhattan College. Her company has performed at The Joyce Theater, Pulse Art Fair, Jacob's Pillow, Insitu Dance Festival, Southampton Arts Center, Odc, Greenwood

Cemetery, Bryant Park, Beach Sessions in Rockaway Beach and Guggenheim Works and Process Series.

She has won numerous awards including 1st Prize Winner of Ballet Austin’s New American Talent Competition, Northwest Dance Project’s “Pretty Creatives’” Choreographic Competition, Next Commission from CITY DANCE Ensemble, Finalist in the International Solo Tanz Theater Competition in Stuttgart, Germany, Finalist in the Hannover International Choreography Competition and an Emerging Choreographer at Springboard Danse Montreal. Her collaboration “Tapis Magique” with MIT technologist, Irmandy Wickaksono, won the innovation award at SXSW.

Loni choreographed the feature film “Saturday Church,” Directed by Damon Cardasis, which premiered at The Tribeca Film Festival and Produced ”Movement at the Still Point,” - an ode to Dance with photographer Mark Mann, PUBLISHED by Rizzoli Books.

Landon was a participant in the New Movement Residency at USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance and Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation New Directions Choreography Lab made possible through the generous support of the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. Other residencies include ITE, NYU, CUNY Dance Initiative, Kaatsbaan, YoungArts, And Stephen Petronio’s new residency center, Crow’s Nest, in collaboration with Dance Lab NY, and Dancers Responding to Aids. She has been adjunct faculty at NYU, Barnard, SUNY Purchase and Princeton University.

Landon is passionate about Entrepreneurship in the Arts and has co-founded THE PLAYGROUND, an initiative designed to give emerging choreographers a place to experiment while allowing professional dancers to participate affordably. The Playground was recognized by Dance Magazine as a 25 To Watch. As well as four/four presents, a platform that commissions and presents collaborations between dancers and musicians. Loni earned her MFA from The University of the Arts.

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