DOROTHY NUNEZ

CO-OWNER, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, STRAYDANCECOMPANY@GMAIL.COM
BALLET, CONTEMPORARY. CONDITIONING + ANATOMY, TECHNIQUE, JAZZ, MODERN

Dorothy Nunez is a queer, female dance artist and maker. She, in partnership with Katie Geeck, founded Stray Dance Company in 2021. She graduated from the dance department at NOCCA (New Orleans Center for Creative Arts) in 2012. In 2016, she received a BFA in Dance from The University of the Arts under the direction of Donna Faye Burchfield. She has performed in works by Jesse Zaritt, Netta Yerushalmy, Sidra Bell, Katie Swords-Thurman, Teddy Tedholm and Inger Cooper. After college, she moved to New York where she danced with ingercooper|dancers as well as showed her own work throughout Philadelphia, PA and Brooklyn, NY. In the fall of 2017, she was a part of the Cultivating Leadership in Dance program at Pentacle in New York. She was also a part of the DTU faculty for their nationals in Biloxi, MS. Her main goal is to encourage dancers to expand their movement and their minds; to teach them that dance is endless, smart and necessary!