Marianna Allen
New Brunswick, NJ 08901 ~ (814)-969-5147 ~ mgallen789@gmail.com
Artistic and technical dancer with performance experience and extensive training in ballet, modern, contemporary, and improvisation. Hard worker with a professional attitude and hunger to learn. Interest in performance opportunities and collaborative works.
Training
Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University 09/2018- 05/2022
BFA in Dance/ Minor in Gender and Media/ Minor in Women's and Gender Studies
Graduated Summa Cum Laude
Training in Ballet, Horton, postmodern, improvisation, choreography, and jazz
Training under: John Evans, Ani Javian, Brittany Engel-Adams, Stuart Shugg, Laurel Snyder, Jordan Lloyd, Blair Ritchie, Chien-Ying Wang,
Peggy Petteway, Alex Gonzalez, Erica Mero, Barbara Angeline, Stephen O’Connell, Pam Tanowitz
Workshops and Intensives
David Dorfman Dance Winter Intensive - 2023
Kun-Yang Ling/ Dancers Summer Audition-Shop - 2022
Koresh Adult Summer Intensive – 2021
Abby Zbikowski Winter Intensive Workshop - 2021
Hubbard Street Pre-professional Summer Intensive- 2019, 2018
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater – 2017, 2016
Performance Experience
Professional work appears with *
*Kinematic Indeterminacy (2023) - Julia Ramirez
*Do's and Don'ts (2023) - Friends Who Dance Collective
*Equanimity (2023) - OcampoWang Dance
*Breaking the Surface (2022) - John Evans and Ani Javian
*Stimulus Overload (2022) - Chantal Taluba
Coloring (2021) – Chuck Wilt
Minor Feelings (2021) – Chien-Ying Wang
BREAK IT UP (2020) – Abby Zbikowksi
Submerged (2020) – John Evans
In Between (2020) – Chien-Ying Wang
Box Out (2019) – Dawn Marie Bazemore
Divisible (2019) – John Evans
Elegy for the Future Fallen (2019) – Lynn Neuman
Angel’s Share (2018) – John Heginbotham
Various Student Choreographed Works (2018-2022)
Additional performance experience as a dancer for the Erie Contemporary Ballet Theatre performing student company 2013-2018
Choreographed Works
Do's and Don'ts (2023)
Co-choreographed with members of Friends Who Dance Collective
A Piece of Something Scattered (2022)
Performed by cast of six dancers
In the Painting Room (2021)
Solo performed by Marianna
what She gave us (2020)
Performed by cast of six dancers
Awards
Hanya Holm Scholarship Award – 2021
Jonathan Phelps Scholarship Nominee – 2016, 2017
Skills
Received 300- hour Yoga Teacher Certification through Lila Flow
Education in grant writing
Experience with lighting design and backstage work