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Prepared by Carrie Blake, Webb Mgmt in collaboration with Dance/NYC staff. 

Tara Sheena is a dancer, writer, and independent arts manager based in Brooklyn, NY. As a performer, she has collaborated on new projects with Catherine Galasso, Ivy Baldwin. Gillian Walsh, Leyya Mona Tawil, Nadia Tykulsker, Ursula Eagly, Lindsey Dietz Marchant, stormy budwig, and Marion Spencer. Recently, she was featured in the pages of Dance Magazine (May 2020) and named as a recipient of the 2020 Emerging Artist Award from the University of Michigan. Her original writings have been supported by Gibney, Dance/NYC, the Knockdown Center, and Critical Correspondence, among others. She was born in Detroit, raised in Michigan, and graduated from the University of Michigan in 2011.

 

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This study was made possible with support from The Andrew W. Mellon, Howard Gilman Foundation, The New York Community Trust, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, in partnership with the City Council, from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

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