Tania Isaac Dance is a physically explosive, sensual marriage of Modern and Caribbean esthetics: part personal documentary and part social commentary. The Company exists as a laboratory for creating highly physical, poetic contemporary movement narratives that drive social and artistic discourse. In addition to creating collaboratively across artistic disciplines, the company creates forums and ancillary projects that precipitate and advocate for intellectual curiosity and civic engagement. Keeping at the center the absolutely addictive sensation of moving with both meditation and abandon, Tania Isaac Dance aims to distill the satisfaction that we crave from freedom to move in any form/idiom/culture/location and marry it with the conscious ideas of how dance/movement/art/thought shapes who we are, where we exist/live and how we negotiate that interaction.

The company has performed at venues throughout the US, Japan and the Caribbean including NY City Center, PS 122, Bates Dance Festival, ODC Theater, The Southern Theater, Jacob's Pillow Inside/Out Stage, The National Cultural Center of St. Lucia and Kyoto Performing Arts Center (Japan)

Originally from St. Lucia, West Indies, Tania is currently based in Philadelphia, PA where she continues to explore the esthetic, kinesiologic, cultural, political bases of contemporary dance. A graduate with honors from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Tania received her MFA from Temple University where she was a Teaching Assistant and University Fellow. Tania is a former Associate Artist at the Atlantic Center for the Arts and a former member of Rennie Harris Puremovement, Urban Bush Women and Li Chiao-Ping Dance. Her work has been presented at venues throughout the U.S., England and the Caribbean and is also a part of Urban Bushwomen Repertory in Soul Deep to the Bone. Her collaborative video work has been screened at the ADF Dancing for the Camera Festival of International Film and Video Dance in North Carolina, at the International Festival of Video Dance, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and at the Prince Theater in Philadelphia. stuporwoman Phase II was presented as a work-in-progress in the 2006 Live Arts Festival.

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stuporwoman
stuporwoman is an operatic and humorous fairytale of motherhood and parenting in the twenty-first century. Generated through a series of workshops with women from a diverse range of racial and economic backgrounds, stuporwoman offers a tongue-in-cheek, serious yet satirical peek at multigenerational perspectives on work, family, conflict, and the often absurd results of balancing it all. With original text written by Guggenheim Award-winning playwright Bridget Carpenter, and live music by Philadelphia Opera Company violinist, Heather Zimmerman, stuporwoman navigates culture, class, and the expectations of motherhood in an interdisciplinary work of dance, music, scenery, and verse for audiences of all ages.

Tania Isaac Dance works in a variety of capacities, in schools and with adults, understanding not only the importance of an arts curriculum but of the importance of an artistic thought process in approaching any area. For youth, the company seeks to encourage critical thinking, curiosity and questioning skills that are integral to success in any field. We firmly believe that innovation comes only through imagination; true leaders are able to see what does not already exist. They live in the realm of possibility, and of active curiosity.

In that light, the company not only creates movement classes that refine physical skills, but includes classes in composition, in body mechanics/kinesiology and in developing projects that encourage exploration of world cultures and active social participation, cultivating an interest in being responsible, knowledgeable and versatile. Specifics vary depending on age range and experience of the group.

• Creole Language & Culture for the French Classroom.*How Artists (and you) Shape Society*Dance: Caribbean, contemporary, composition, improvisation, intro to body science
• How we create; language, movement and society
• Imprint: Dialogues of a generation
• Caribbean Social Dances in Historical Perspective