• Dancer️
  • Choreographer
  • Performer

Resume

Lauren Settembrino

lauren.settembrino@gmail.com she/her New York, NY 5'4"

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Neville Dance Theater

Company dancer since 2017, Principal Dancer since 2022

Brenda Neville’s:

  • Identities (2023) | Manhattan Movement & Arts Center
  • Amethyst/Rhodochrosite Pas (2022) | Harmony in the Woods, Hawley, PA; and more
  • Banter (pointe) (2022) | Evening of Contemporary Dance, Rose Nagelberg Theatre, NYC; Harmony in the Woods, Hawley, PA
  • 53 Movements (2019–2021) | Dixon Place, NYC; The United Theatre, Westerly, RI
  • Exposed (2017–2023) | Milwaukee Fringe Fesaval; Jamaica Performing Arts Center, NYC; and more

Kristen Klein’s The Pursuit (2023) | Manhattan Movement & Arts Center

Nanako Kitagawa’s Children’s Corner (pointe) (2021–2022) | Artists In Motion Mini, KnJ Theater, NYC; and more

Angie Moon Dance Theatre

Company dancer since August 2018

Angie Moon Conte’s:

  • Mylar, cellophane, light, and us (2023) | WestFest Dance Festival, Westbeth Artists' Residence, NYC, with visuals by Benny Krown
  • The Drowning Pine (2019) | Jack Crystal Theatre
  • HUNTING YEAR (2018) | Triskelion Arts

Choreography

Flee porneia (solo) (2023) | Manhattan Movement & Arts Center

B–Y (solo) (2018) | Ailey Citigroup Theatre

Freelance

  • In Earnest by Byron Lars (2021, headliner) | choreography by Jen Roit/Armada Dance at StylePointe New York Fashion Week
  • Ori Flomin’s Together, together (2019) | America-Israel Cultural Foundation’s ICA Awards, Rose Theatre, Jazz at Lincoln Center
  • BalaSole Dance Company Featured Emerging Arast (2017) | BAM Fisher
  • Crystal Pite’s Polaris (2015) | Lincoln Center White Light Festival, New York City Center
  • Erin McNerney’s Feed the Birds (2015) | Dizzy Feet Foundation Celebration of Dance Gala, The Novo, Los Angeles, CA

TRAINING/EDUCATION

Tisch School of the Arts, New York University

BFA in Dance

  • Contemporary: Rashaun Mitchell, Pamela Pietro, Elizabeth Coker, Ori Flomin
  • Ballet: Giada Matteini, Cherylyn Lavagnino, James Maran, Jolinda Menendez (pointe)
  • Composition and improvisation: Rashaun Mitchell, Jeremy Nelson, Sean Curran

Distinctions: University Honors Scholar, Cum Laude

College of Arts and Sciences, New York University

Double major in English

Domaine Forget Summer Dance Academy (Quebec, CAN)

RUBBERBANDance Group summer residency program

  • Trained with Victor Quijada, Anne Plamondon, and members of RUBBERBANDance Group

Other dance skills: pointe, improvisation, contemporary and ballet partnering, choreography (concert and commercial), tap, musical theater, hip hop (some breaking/bboying, popping, locking, vogue)


Other skills: group fitness instruction, acting, grant writing, editing/proofreading, search engine optimization (SEO)