Home
Upcoming Events
Mission Statement
Company
Press
Repertoire
Photo Gallery
Classes
Support us
Contact
| Daniela Hoff ( artistic
director/ choreographer/dancer/teacher) Daniela Hoff was born in Germany, where she also started her dance training. She worked with international teachers and choreographers, like Joachim Schloemer, Alberto Alarcon, Vera Sander, Ismael Ivo, with members of the Tanztheater Wuppertal/ Pina Bausch, including Malou Airaudo, Dominique Mercy and Anne Marie Benati and others. In Germany she presented her own choreography for the first time, which was positively reviewed in the press. In 1995 Daniela moved to Amsterdam/ Holland to study at the School for the Arts, Department for Modern Theater Dance. There she again had the pleasure to work with international choreographers and teachers, including Michele Ann de Mey, Marcelo Evelin, Laura Moro, Eileen Standly, Feri de Geus, Shaunie and the Angel, Pauline de Groot, Katie Duck and Livnat Raiz as part of her study, but also professionally. She also presented her own choreography at different festivals and venues including the Plankgas Festival, the ITS- Festival and the Phillip Morris Dance Theater. Since moving to New York in 1999 she has danced with Christina Briggs & Edward Winslow/Incidents Physical Theater, Pat Cremins, Mary Seidman, Erica Essner, Christine Suarez, Peggy Peloquin, Ariane Anthony, Patricia Nichelson, Stephen Koplowitz, as well as an improvisational group compromised of both musicians and dancers, which she also co-founded. Daniela received a Scholarship at the Merce Cunningham Dance Studio. In NY her own work has been shown at the Williamsburg/ Greenpoint Dance Festival, the Cathedral Arts Festival/ NJ, the Wight Room Series, Hatch, Dancespace, RAW Material, the Cunningham Studio, WAX, SWEAT in NJ, the d.u.m.b.o. Dance Festival, the Cool New York Dance Festival, the Triskelion Arts Center, the Flea Theater, Newsteps at the Mulberry Street Theater, CT meets NY Dance Fest in NY at DNA and in CT at the Crystal Theater, the Clark Studio Theater/ Lincoln Center, at Joyce Soho Presents and the DancenOw/NYC at DTW. In the summer of 2005, 2006 and 2007 Daniela has been on a residency supported by Dancenow/NYC/Silo. Recently Daniela Hoff Dance Company has been featured on the public access TV video program on MNN. In September 2005 she founded her company HoffTanzt, that turned February 2008 into Daniela Hoff Dance Company. |
 |
| Liza
Austria Miller ( dancer) Liza Austria, a native New Yorker, completed her early training at the Joffrey Ballet School in NY. She completed a degree in Dance, Community and Social Change from the Gallatin School at NYU. Liza has worked with a variety of teachers and choreographers throughout New York, including Francesca Corkle, Trinette Singleton, Deborah Damast, Alan Danielson and Airi Suzuki. In Belo Horizonte, Brazil she danced for the Compania de Sesi Minas, where she worked with choreographers Cristina Helena and Pablo Moret. She is currently studying dance with Christine Wright. In addition, Liza is the lead singer in the jazz and Brazilian band Mambola and is performing regularly in the NY region. She has been teaching Gyrotonic since 2004. Liza has been dancing with Daniela Hoff/Hofftanzt since September 2006 and enjoys being constantly challenged and inspired by Daniela! |
|
| Preston Burger ( dancer) Preston Burger recently graduated from Princeton University with a BA Psychology and Certificate in Dance, where he studied with Meghan Durham, Rebecca Lazier, David Dorfman, Gabri Christa, and Ze'eva Cohen. Preston has performed in works by Lazier, Durham, Cohen, Christopher Williams, and Anna Sokolow. He also had the honor of working with Millicent Hodson and Kenneth Archer on their 2005 reconstruction of Prokofiev's Le Pas D'Acier, in which he was featured as a Commissar. Preston also appeared on CBS television in 2006 as a solo dancer in the introduction and commercial buffers for their annual special on the NCAA Championships. Preston is currently a scholarship student with Jennifer Muller/The Works, and will be dancing in upcoming projects with MariaColacoDance. This October, Preston will be presenting his own choreography in the HATCH Performance Series. Preston is also an amateur documentary filmmaker, and his films have been presented at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and various other museums and film festivals nationwide. |
 |
| Ellen
Cremer ( dancer- guest artist) Ellen Cremer, born in Germany, studied dance at Palucca University in Dresden, Germany and dance, improvisation and acting at the Theater School Amsterdam. Supported by a scholarship she had the opportunity to participate in several workshops with Inaki Azpillages, Wim Vandekeybus, Katie Duck and the SITI Intensive Workshop in Saratoga in the United States. Ellen worked with choreographers in New York and Europe, including Robert Allen, Edward Winslow, Erica Essner, Jochen Roller and Marianne Kimamong. She is a member of Palissimo Dance Theater since February 2005. |
 |
| Tomomi Imai ( dancer) Tomomi Imai came to New York from Tokyo, where she taught and was a resident member at the Yoshiki Hommma Modern Dance and Ballet Theater. She also performed as a soloist with the Kho Fujii Dance Company, which performances are sponsored by the Japanese Ministry of Culture. She was a dance member of the Tsukuba Expo. Tomomi’s choreography has been presented at several theaters in Tokyo and has won awards at the Itabashi National Modern Dance Competition, Akita Modern Dance Competition and grand prizes at both the Kita-Kyushu and Asia National Modern Dance and the Matsudo Art Society Competitions. She dances whit the Pi Dance Theater, the Dance Imprints, Maxine Steinman, Regina Larkin, and in “AGORA”(Noemie Lafrance). She taught at the Adelphi University in Long Island City and the Peridance in New York and teaches Pilates. She will perform for Harkness Dance festival with Maxine Steinman 2006. |
 |
| Katie Key ( dancer) Katie Key graduated from Columbia College Chicago in 2003 with a B.A. in choreography. While in Chicago, Katie was a member of Mordine and Company Dance Theatre, the 58 Group, Anatomical Theater, and The Humans. Since moving to NYC she has founded the dance company, Queen of Hearts Productions. Katie lives in Brooklyn with her husband Jon, and her cat Gypsy. She is happy to be dancing with Daniela Hoff and dancers! |
|
| Miranda Mikesh (
dancer) Miranda started dancing in her home town of Hillsboro, OR. She received her BFA in Dance from California Institute of the Arts. While there, she got to study abroad at the London Contemporary Dance School. Miranda has also attended many festivals and workshops. Some of which include, ADF and Malashock Dance Co. workshop. After college she moved to San Diego where she danced with Butterworth Dance Company and Eclectica Dance Theater. She was also a teacher for Emotion in Motion, a program that taught the fifth graders of San Diego creative movement. Miranda is ecstatic to be a part of this company, and would like to thank Daniela for giving her the opportunity to dance with these great women! |
 |
| Mary
Seidman ( dancer- guest artist) Dancer, Teacher, Choreographer, and Artistic Director of Mary Seidman and Dancers, Mary Seidman began her early dance training with Shirley Ririe and Joanne Woodbury from Utah. Ms. Seidman also studied in Boston, Mass. with Susan Rose and Joy Kellman and upon coming to New York in 1980, Ms. Seidman began training at the Merce Cunningham studio. She also studies ballet with Jocelyn Lorenz, in NYC. A gifted teacher, Ms. Seidman won the honored Hilla Ribay Teaching Artist Award in 1998 from the Solomon Guggenheim Museum’s Learning Through Art Program. Ms. Seidman has been invited as a guest teacher to several Arts Conferences and Symposiums. She has also taught through the Young Audiences of NJ, CT., and NY, Morris NJ Arts Council, Suffolk County, NY BOCES, Duchess County and Westchester County NY BOCES, New York Foundation for the Arts, Early Stages Program, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, and has been on faculty at Peridance Center, NYC. From 1990-98, Ms. Seidman operated her own school of dance in Chelsea, teaching New York City children, ages 18 months to 13 years of age. Ms. Seidman is also a faculty member at the Mark Morris Dance Center in Brooklyn, NY. Ms. Seidman’s dance company, Mary Seidman and Dancers, tours extensively, and performs in venues as Brooklyn Academy of Music, Symphony Space, Jacob`s Pillow, St. Mark`s Church, Piccolo Spoleto Festival, among others. |
 |
| Andrea Shasgus
Parkinson ( dancer) Born and raised in New York City, Andrea Shasgus Parkinson is a graduate of the State University of New York at Purchase with a BFA in dance and a minor in Sociology. She has worked with Amy Kail, Rachel Thorne Germond, Amy Cox, Jill Sigman, Sean Curran, Jonathan Appels, and Nicholas Rodriguez among others. Her choreography has recently been seen at White Wave’s John Ryan Theater for the DUMBO Arts and Cool NY Festivals. Her work has also been selected for the BRIC Dance Sampler, the First Weekends series for the Brooklyn Arts Exchange, for the Newsteps Series at the Mulberry Street Theater, the SWEAT Modern Dance Series in Hoboken, for the Fridays at Noon Series at the 92nd Street Y, and for the One Arm Red series in DUMBO. She has taught ballet for children at the Summer Arts Institute in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and for the after school program for children at Brooklyn College. Andrea currently works as a fitness professional in Manhattan and she is thrilled to be working with Daniela! |
 |
| Dagmar Spain ( dancer) Dagmar Spain (choreographer, dancer, dance teacher), born in the Czech Republic, received her early dance training in Frankfurt, Germany (BFA in dance). There she has worked for several dance companies including the Bremer Tanztheater. Her experiences also include mime-theater and acting in the theater company the Traumtaenzer, as well as teaching modern and classical dance to children and adults. Her first choreography was produced in theaters in Bremen and Frankfurt. In New York, she graduated with an MFA in dance and choreography from New York University, Tisch School of the Arts. She has performed with various companies in New York, including Chen & Dancers, Risa Jaroslow and Joan Miller Dance Players. She has studied choreography intensely with Bessie Schoenberg, Phyllis Lamhut and Doris Rudko. In 1999, she founded her company Dance Imprints. Her work has been commissioned for a student-production at Brown University, at the Kyurian Theater in Tokyo, and at the Taipei Theater in New York, as well as presented at many other theaters in NY including St. Mark’s Church. She participated in the short film “five-non five” by Anja Zander which was screened at the “Tornado am Kreutzberg” gallery in Berlin in June 2005. Ms. Spain is a faculty member at the 92nd St.Y, Harkness Dance Center, where she teaches modern dance to children. |
|
| Heidi Turzyn ( dancer) Heidi Turzyn was born and raised in New York. She graduated from Hunter College with BA in Dance and Minor in Psychology. She is a versatile dancer trained in Ballet, Modern, Hip-hop, and Aerial Dance. In addition to working with Daniela Hoff Dance Company she dances for Fly-By-Night Dance Theater, T.Lion/Body Stories, and Big Beat/ Back Flow. Heidi is also an active choreographer in the New York dance community. |
|
| Richard Miller (
composer) Richard Miller is a composer and saxophonist currently residing in Brooklyn, New York. His works have been performed at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, the MOSA Concert Series in NYC, and at the Manhattan School of Music. He is also an active jazz saxophonist and arranger in New York City, and has earned a degree in Jazz Performance from William Paterson University. Richard is currently studying composition with Paul Caputo. |
|
| Karen Young (costume
designer) Karen Young has designed for many dance, theater companies, and visual artists in New York, in addition to supervising all costume projects for the Martha Graham Center. Recent projects include: Elisa Monte Dance, AMDaT, Nai Ni Chen Dance Company, Philadanco, Matthew Barney's films Cremaster 1 and Cremaster 5 , Toni Dove's interactive feature Spectropia , and Eve Sussman's video installation 89 Seconds at Alcazar, which is currently on view at MOMA, Noemie Lafrance's site-specific dance work Agora , and Eve Sussman and the Rufus Corporation's film Raptus. |