As a choreographer, Danielle Russo (she/her) has been presented nationally at the American Dance Festival, Detroit Institute of Arts, Jacob’s Pillow, and The Yard; and internationally in Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Mexico, Panama, South Korea, Spain, and Sweden. Residency and fellowship awards have included C.N.N. - Ballet de Lorraine (France), Danscentrum Jette (Belgium), Nadine Laboratory for the Contemporary Arts (Belgium), Independent Artists Initiative WUK (Austria), Jonah Bokaer Arts Foundation (U.S.) , LEIMAY (U.S.), Mana Contemporary (U.S.), Performing Arts Forum (France), and Springboard Danse Montréal (Canada), among others. Local highlights have included Armory Arts Week, Julian Schnabel’s Casa del Popolo, Domino Park, Governors Island, HERE Arts Center, The High Line Nine, La MaMa, Lincoln Center for Performing Arts at Damrosch Park, Moynihan Station, and The Oculus at the World Trade Center. She is a multi-year grant recipient of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs with the Brooklyn Arts Council, Carnegie, Dance/NYC, Harkness Foundation for Dance, One Brooklyn Fund, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. In 2022, she was a national semifinalist and grantee of the Expensify Community Justice Advocacy Award. In 2016, her commission for the Los Angeles-based No)one. Art House caught the attention of Solange Knowles and prompted a reprisal of the evening-length work with Knowles’s affiliate arts organization, Saint Heron. Most recently, she was commissioned by The Metropolitan Opera’s Dancers, Chorus, and Orchestra for Open Culture NYC; New York Choral Society; Climate Week NYC; and LMCC's esteemed River to River Festival with Amy and Jennifer Khoshbin. As an educator, Russo has taught on faculty at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, SUNY Purchase, CUNY Queens College, and The Joffrey Ballet School BFA and Professional Divisions, as well as numerous institutions and festivals across Europe, and North and Central Americas. Currently, she is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa. She is a recipient of a BFA in Dance and a BA in Anthropology from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, and an MFA in Dance from Hollins University/American Dance Festival where she attended on fellowship. Outside of her own choreographic and teaching practices, she performed several seasons with The Metropolitan Opera.

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