Dana Foglia

Dana Foglia is a U.S.-based choreographer, movement coach, dancer, company director, and educator whose work spans ballet, modern, jazz, contemporary fusion, hip-hop, African dance, tap, and pointe. She trained on fellowship at The Ailey School, where she was selected to perform with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and studied ballet and modern dance at Seiskaya Ballet Academy. Her early performing career included touring and performance work with major recording artists including Beyoncé, Janet Jackson, and Rihanna—experience that taught her how choreography must read across cameras, arenas, and live audiences while remaining sustainable over extended runs.

Foglia's long creative collaboration with Beyoncé began in 2009 as assistant choreographer on the *I Am... World Tour* (2009–10). She continued in credited roles across the *Mrs. Carter Show* (2013), *On the Run* (2014), *Formation* (2016), *On the Run II* (2018), *Renaissance* (2023), and *Cowboy Carter* (2025) tours. In 2016, she shared the MTV Video Music Award for Best Choreography for Beyoncé's "Formation" with Chris Grant and JaQuel Knight, and was credited among choreographers nominated for "Sorry." These productions involve large creative teams; Foglia's documented contributions should be distinguished from those of her co-choreographers, associate choreographers, dancers, and Beyoncé herself.

Around 2010, Foglia founded Dana Foglia Dance, initially based in New York. The company functions as both a training ground and performance laboratory where professional dancers develop in her dense contemporary-fusion language. The company's repertory and filmed projects emphasize ensemble precision, weight, line, fashion-aware staging, and a willingness to work in dark or abrasive musical atmospheres. Her movement vocabulary often combines ballet-informed reach through the limbs with low centers, abrupt directional cuts, muscular rebounds, and isolations drawn from commercial and street-influenced vocabularies. Ensembles frequently shift between severe tableaux, individual textures, and recombined formations, with styling and composition treated as integral to the choreographic field.

Foglia continues to teach advanced contemporary fusion and related forms while directing her company. Her parallel practice—sustaining major commercial-scale choreographic authorship while developing independent company experiments—remains central to her work. She teaches at Broadway Dance Center and maintains an active publishing presence through Dana Foglia Dance's performance channel.