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Risa Steinberg is active in many facets of the dance community as a performer, teacher, reconstructor of the works of José Limón, rehearsal coach, and mentor to young, emerging, and established choreographers. A native New Yorker, Risa attended the High School of Performing Arts. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from The Juilliard School, where she has been a full-time faculty member since 2004 and served as Associate Director of Juilliard Dance from 2008 to 2016. Risa has been a guest teacher internationally and at numerous summer intensives, including Arts Umbrella (Canada) and ImPulsTanz (Austria), since 2001. In 2022, she received the DanceTeacherMagazine Award of Distinction.
As a performer, Risa was a principal dancer with the José Limón Dance Company, Bill Cratty Dance Theater, Annabelle Gamson, Anna Sokolow’s Player’s Project, Colin Connor, and the American Repertory Dance Company of Los Angeles. She has also performed as a guest artist with choreographers including Wally Cardona, Sean Curran, Kate Weare, and DanzaHoy of Caracas, Venezuela, and was a cast member of Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More from 2015 to 2020. Her critically acclaimed solo concert A Celebration of Dance featured a repertory ranging from Isadora Duncan to contemporary choreographers.
As a reconstructor of José Limón’s works, Risa has worked with companies and dancers including Nureyev and Friends, Frank Augustyn, and Karen Kain.
As a choreographic advisor, she has had the honour of mentoring many emerging as well as established choreographers, including Brian Brooks, Kyle Abraham, Kate Weare, Michelle Dorrance, and choreographers from the New York Choreographic Institute. Risa is the co-director of the Ann and Weston Hicks Choreography Project at Jacob’s Pillow
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