Cynthia Dragoni is a ballet based multidisciplinary artist, director, choreographer, and dance content creator.

Her work uses dance as medium through which to create performances and educational programming that weave theatre, aerial arts, video, light and stories into one experience.

She currently trains dancers and teachers and produces shows in the US, Europe and the Middle East.

She creates dance media content through TikTok and on The Dance Lens Podcast, opening the door to new audiences through stories, history, interviews and behind the scenes.

Formerly a classical dancer working and studying in theatres in Ukraine and St Petersburg, Russia. She has performed in the classics: Swan Lake, Don Quixote, Giselle, La Bayadere, Spartacus, The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, and Le Corsaire. Followed by a decade performing in NYC where she worked with contemporary companies Henning Rübsam’s Sensedance and Ballets with a Twist.

She studied at the University of Pennsylvania and The New School and was awarded a place in the the Arts Management / Capacity Building Program at The Kennedy Center. She is a member of: Conseil International de la Danse inside UNESCO headquarters in Paris.

She has created and run international dance summer programs in Bretagne and Paris France, in conjunction with the Conservatoire Mozart in Paris.

She founded and directed the Ballet Institute NY. Where students had classical training alongside theatre/visual arts studies with an eye towards nurturing artists who have the tools to further the development of their art form/s.