Marina Vianello, a dance artist based in New York City, began her training at City in Motion Dance Theater’s School of Dance in Kansas City, Missouri. She graduated magna cum laude with a BFA in Dance and a minor in Global Systems from George Mason University, where she was awarded an annual Dance Talent Scholarship. Throughout college she was cast in pieces by Alejandro Cerrudo, Robert Battle, Lar Lubovitch, Susan Shields, Christopher d’Amboise, and David Grenke, and choreographed three pieces for the Mason Dance Company. She has trained with the Mark Morris Dance Group on full scholarship, with Rioult Dance NY, and with DanceWorks Chicago.

 

In 2018 she attended the b12 dance festival in Berlin, Germany where she performed a piece by Shannon Gillen at the dock11 theatre. She has taught dance at City in Motion and Dancewave in Brooklyn. She has also taught academic and movement classes at Academie Lafayette, a French-immersion charter school in Kansas City, and has been an assistant choreographer with Music Theater Kansas City. She has performed with the Lyric Opera of Kansas City in "West Side Story," dancing the original choreography of Jerome Robbins, and in "The Pearl Fishers" choreographed by John Malashock. In New York City she has performed with Mari Meade Dance Collective, Yoo & Dancers, and As Arts NY Dance.

 

She serves as the Administrative Assistant for Moulin/Belle, a new artist residency center in Dordogne, France, and as the Booking Director for Pony Box Dance Theater. She also currently dances with Ballaro Dance, Arsenal Movement Dance Project, and Terre Dance Collective.