Breanna O’Mara

Breanna is an international performer, born and raised in Detroit, Michigan and graduated from The Juilliard School in New York 2011, where she was recipient of the Joseph W.Polisi Award. She became a member of Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch in 2014, performing a wide range of works from repertory, and is now a member of the Advisory Board to Pina Bausch Foundation. Breanna has been in creation with several artists such as Dimitris Papaioannou, Cecilia Bengolea & François Chaignaud, Chris Haring, Ryan McNamara, Johannes Wieland, Cristiana Morganti, Stijn Celis, Alexander Ekman, Jack Ferver, Larry Keigwin and Colleen Thomas as well as performed work by Ohad Naharin, Marie Chouinard, Mark Morris and more. She herself created performance piece which has been presented in New York, Germany and Detroit. In 2009, she founded the annual outreach program, Detroit Arts Immersion, which brought workshops as well as free performances to various communities in Detroit that had limited opportunities in the arts.

 

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