Tatianna Steiner (she/her) has been training since the age of five in ballet, jazz, tap, hip hop, improvisation, and modern dance. Tatianna is a 24’ graduate of UC Berkeley (Cal) with a B.A. in Dance and Performance Studies. While at UC Berkeley, she worked with renowned choreographers such as Lenora Lee, Iu Hui Chua, and Lisa Wymore. Additionally, she choreographed multiple movement works, including duets and large-scale group pieces. Tatianna co-founded Tether Dance Company, a premier modern dance troupe at UC Berkeley, where she cultivated a cooperative and inclusive environment and explored innovative movement and scoring techniques.

As a choreographer, Tatianna fuses modern and contemporary styles to create works that are expressive, emotional, as well as technically complex. Beyond graduation, she has been an active freelance performer in the Bay Area, collaborating with artists and organizations such as Printz Dance Project, SanSan Kwan, APAture, and NACHMO.

Tatianna will be utilizing the BlackBox Studios residency hours to work on an upcoming project that will be featured at Dance Mission Theater in April 2025 in a shared bill. She will be investigating the intersection between authenticity, code-switching, adulthood, and childhood with a cast of five dancers. In this 10-minute piece, she intends to explore her intangible connection to knee-high colorful socks and utilize them as a prop and costume piece, and utilize techniques of body percussion, weight sharing, and floorwork.