Mariana Oliveira

ABOUT MARIANA OLIVEIRA

Dancer and choreographer who taught at the Bolshoi Ballet School in Brazil. Her work has been commissioned by the Joffrey Ballet (Winning Works), New York City Ballet Choreographic Institute, Carolina Ballet, Richmond Ballet, Kansas City Ballet, Nashville Ballet, and Chicago Repertory Ballet. In 2009, she founded The Union Project Dance Company, a contemporary dance company.

She studied at the Royal Academy of Dance in London. She was a trainee dancer at the National Dance Company of Wales.

At 19, she was invited to perform with the Cuban Classical Ballet of Miami. In 2015, she was nominated for the World Choreography Awards in Los Angeles.

Her mother first introduced her to ballet at age four.

She and Alison Stroming are both successful dancers from Brazil.