Anabella Lenzu

Originally from Argentina, Anabella Lenzu is a dancer, choreographer, writer, and teacher with over thirty years of experience working in Argentina, Chile, Italy, and the United States. Lenzu directs her own company, Anabella Lenzu/DanceDrama (ALDD), which since 2006 has presented almost four hundred performances, created fourteen choreographic works, and performed at a hundred venues, presenting thought-provoking and historically conscious dance-theater in New York. Classically trained at the renowned Teatro Colòn in Buenos Aires, Lenzu studied the modern dance techniques of Humphrey/Limòn and Graham in New York. Her studies of Tango and the folk dances of Argentina, Spain, and Italy, further inform her work. Lenzu founded her own dance school L’Atelier Centro Creativo de Danza in 1994 in Argentina, and as an educator for more than thirty years, she has taught in a range of institutions, including universities, professional dance studios, companies, festivals, and symposiums in the USA, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, London, and Italy. As a choreographer, Lenzu has been commissioned all over the world for opera, TV programs, theater productions, and by dance companies. She has produced and directed several award-winning short dance films and screened her work in over fifty national and international festivals, including London, Ireland, Norway, Switzerland, Serbia, Portugal, Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico. Her work has been seen at La Mama, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Movement Research at Judson Church, Draftworks at DanceSpace project/ St. Mark Church, 92nd Street Y, HERE Arts Center, Abrons Arts Center, DUO Multicultural Arts Center, Queens Museum, Bronx Museum, Gibney Dance, Center for Performance Research, Triskelion, Chez Bushwick, Roulette, Chashama, Dixon Place, Sheen Center, The Consulate of Argentina in NYC, NYU/Casa Zerilli Marimo, University Settlement, Baruch Performing Arts Center, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Instituto Cervantes, 3LD Center for Art & Technology, Kumble Theater/Long Island University, among many others. She has received grants from Brooklyn Arts Council, Puffin Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Edwards Foundation, The Vermont Community Foundation, and the Independent Community Foundation. Lenzu has written for various dance and art magazines. Her first book, Unveiling Motion and Emotion, was published in 2013, with writing in Spanish and English on the importance of dance, community, choreography, and dance pedagogy. Her second book, Teaching Dance through Meaningful Gestures, is expected in 2022. The book explores basic exercises, visualization exercises, active imagination, and artistic application and how technique is a philosophy as well as a theory, and how the body is an instrument for expression.