danielle pinney
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videography by
regan jordan
+ ross bosterholt
regan jordan
+ ross bosterholt
Dance Exposure
Contemporary | Ballet | Aerial Lyra, Hammock, and Split Silks | Hip Hop | Jazz | Gaga | Flamenco
Belly Dance | Irish Step Dance | Pizzica | Nihon-buyō | Lanna | Legong
Danielle Pinney is a Freelance Contemporary Dancer and Writer, based between New York and London. Between September and December 2025, she was the designated Artist-in-Residence at Bryn Du Mansion in Granville, Ohio. In residency, she conducted research at the intersection of contemporary dance and poetry to understand how one’s surroundings impact and inspire new modalities of movement. Danielle has been named an Edward Villella Fellow (2019)¹ and Thomas J. Watson Fellow (2022-23)². She has also performed in Jason Derulo’s “Glad U Came” music video, filmed in Bali, Indonesia, in Rai Linea Verde’s TV special on Pizzica Dance, filmed in Bari, Italy, and in a new Maia Reficco music video, still in production. Danielle is also pursuing a part-time MSt in Creative Writing at the University of Cambridge.
- Awarded fully-funded Aerial Dance Training in Aerial Split Silks and Hoop.
- Conducted independent movement-based anthropological research on storytelling in traditional dance outside the U.S. for 13 consecutive months. Between July 2022 and August 2023, Danielle explored how communities come together to tell shared narratives through their time-honored movement practices across Spain, Morocco, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Thailand, and Indonesia. More below.
anthropological
dance research
thomas j. watson fellow site