VALERIA SOLOMONOFF
CHOREOGRAPHER - PROFESSOR - dancer
Valeria is a wide-ranging innovator who uses her tango roots to reimagine new possibilities of partnering. She is an Awarded choreographer born in Argentina and based in New York who choreographed for Broadway, films, plays, circus and created her own shows. Besides being the founder of TangoMujer, the first all-female tango company worldwide, she is the creator of Broadway Tango and artistic director of Valetango. She is an NYU Tisch Tango Professor, a Resident Fellow at Center for Ballet and The Arts, NYU, a Research Associate at Partnering Lab, Harvard University and Partnering Professor at Juilliard Drama Department
Critic’s Pick- Elliot Norton Award Nominee.
Lucy Bowen Inaugural Prize for inclusive choreography​​​.
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2 Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors Awards (HOLA).
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2 Asociacion de Criticos del Espectaculo Awards (ACE) and 2 nominations​.
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​​Festival de Danza de Rosario Award.
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Bienal de la Creatividad Rosario Imagina Award.​​
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Residen Fellow at Center for Ballet and the Arts, NYU.
strips Argentine tango to its bare bones, focusing on the dynamic interplay of lead and follow co-creation as the source of a new aesthetic that highlights relevant contemporary stories. Our shows focus, with humor and wit, on gender dynamics of the social dance floor and the conflict created by power and desire.
