Performance
Thania started and developed her career as a dancer, choreographer and educator in Puerto Rico. After finishing her Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, she traveled to New York to do her Master's in Dance Education (New York University), where she is a licensed dance teacher. She has trained in contemporary dance, ballet, and many other styles, and has danced for several dance companies and artists in Puerto Rico, Argentina, New York and now Scotland, such as CcanDance (Christian Canciani - NY/France), Mhairi Allan (Scotland), Jack Webb (Scotland) Vestiges Dance Collective (Jessie Flores - NY), co.lab (Kindra Windish & Maria Breza- NY/California), Kaleidoscope Dancers among (NYU Dance Education Company), Physual (Richard Rivera), Emanuel Ludueña (Argentina) & Juan Leiba (Argentina/Spain), among many other international choreographers and collaborators.
In addition to her artistic career, she has been a dance movement therapist for ten years, with advanced credentialing in the US & UK as a lecturer and clinical supervisor. She has taught dance/movement psychotherapy in over six countries. Thania is currently conducting doctoral research on the connection between dance and violence prevention, and teaches workshops on contemporary dance and interdisciplinary practice, arts-based peacebuilding, and dance, health and wellbeing.
