A native of Argentina, Valeria Solomonoff is an awarded choreographer and a tango innovator who reimagined new possibilities of partnering. 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.

 

Valeria strips tango of stereotypes, while displaying its choreographic beauty and complexity. She received several awards and nominations for her work as choreographer, director and performer and has been widely praised by the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Berlin Morgen Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, among others, for her groundbreaking work.

 

Solomonoff’s choreography for Sammi Cannold’s version of the musical Evita, was nominated by Elliot Norton Awards and chosen Critic’s Pick. It was presented at New York City Center, American Repertory Theater in Cambridge and Shakespeare Theater Company in DC. With her company Valetango, Valeria received two ACE Awards for Best Choreography and Best Dancer for Tango Por Ellos, two ACE nominations for Best Direction and Best Production for Tango Intimo. As choreographer for plays, she received an HOLA Award for Best Choreography for Tango Fever, and a second HOLA Award for Best Choreography for Doña Flor y sus Dos Maridos. Solomonoff is the inaugural recipient of the Lucy Bowen Prize for Inclusive Choreography, making work for Dance for Parkinson Disease at Mark Morris Dance Center and received twice Awards as Choreographer and Soloist at Argentine Dance Festivals.

 

Valeria is Research Associate at Partnering Lab at ArtLab, Harvard University and was a Resident Fellow at Center for Ballet and The Arts, NYU. Besides directing her own shows, she choreographed for films, circus, flash mobs and plays, coached Broadway choreographers Graciela Daniele and Lorin Lataro and film stars like Frank Langella. She performed for the president of Argentina at the Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center shared the stage with Placido Domingo and the National Opera at D.A.R. Constitution Hall and was the founder and co-director of the groundbreaking company TangoMujer, the first all-female tango ensemble in the world. Her inquiry into relations of power, collaboration, and dynamics of gender brought her work to the stages of Jacob’s Pillow, MA, Signature Theater, Town Hall, in NYC, Haus der Kulturen de Welt in Berlin, Teatro Solis in Uruguay, among others.

 

Recognized by The New York Post as one of New York City’s top tango teachers, Valeria is NYU Tisch, New Studio on Broadway adjunct Tango professor since 2011 and Partnering professor at Juilliard Drama since 2022.