Lonnie Stanton

Ballet; Contemporary
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Lonnie Anela O’ Kalani Neff Stanton is a proud native Hawaiian raised in rural Northern California and based in Boston. She has been committed to dance education with a strong somatic focus as well as a professional contemporary performance career since graduating from the Boston Conservatory (2009). She has completed her 200 hour yoga certification through Yogaworks (2011). For 10 years she worked with Prometheus Dance performing and teaching with the company. Lonnie is a freelance dancer currently performing with Jean Appolon Expressions, Peter DiMuro/ Public Displays of Motion, Lynn Modell, and Continuum Dance. During her time dancing in NYC, she worked with Kinesis Project Dance Theater focusing solely on site specific performance. Lonnie is passionate about sharing dance in unconventional, often outdoor spaces where a broad audience can be reached. She was thrilled to choreograph auditory movement maps for the American Repertory Theater’s: Arboretum Experience (2021) and be rewarded the Live Arts Boston Grant (2022) for her collaborative AR project: Emotive Land. Lonnie is an artist in residence at the Mt. Auburn Cemetery (24’-25’). They are on faculty at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee and The Harvard Dance Center. Bringing dance education into public schools through Notes in Motion, New York City Ballet, and Boston Ballet has been especially rewarding to Lonnie.

 

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