Cynthia Dragoni is a ballet based multidisciplinary artist, director, and dance content creator. Her work uses dance as medium through which to create performances and educational programming that weave theatre, aerial arts, video, light and stories into one experience. She is a member of: Conseil International de la Danse inside UNESCO headquarters in Paris.

She is currently on faculty at The Six Compound in Los Angeles, an artistic advisor for Gregory Cianci’s ballet company in Paris France, as well as on the team of The Flying Carpet Festival, an international touring festival bringing dance, music and related arts education and experiences for refugee and displaced children in the Middle East.

She creates dance media content through TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and on The Dance Lens Podcast, opening the door to new audiences through stories, history, interviews and behind the scenes.

Formerly a classical dancer working and studying in theatres in Ukraine and St Petersburg, Russia. She has performed in the classics: Swan Lake, Don Quixote, Giselle, La Bayadere, Spartacus, The Nutcracker and Sleeping Beauty. Followed by a decade performing in NYC where she worked with contemporary companies Henning Rübsam’s Sensedance and Ballets with a Twist.

She founded and directed the Ballet Institute NY in 2013, where she created and ran international ballet summer programs in Bretagne and Paris France, in conjunction with the Conservatoire Mozart in Paris. And where students had classical training alongside theatre/visual arts studies with an eye towards nurturing artists who have the tools to further the development of their art form/s.

She studied at The Rock School for Dance Education, Boston Ballet, University of Pennsylvania, The New School and was awarded a place in the the Arts Management / Capacity Building Program at The Kennedy Center.

Find her on socials @thedancelens