BIOGRAPHY
Lonnie Anela O’kalani Neff Stanton
Lonnie Anela O’kalani Neff Stanton (she/her) has been committed to dance education with a somatic focus as well as her contemporary performance career since graduating from the Boston Conservatory (’09). For a decade she worked with Prometheus Dance. In New York City she performed with Kinesis Project Dance Theatre, focusing on site-specific performance. Stanton is passionate about sharing dance in unconventional outdoor spaces where a broad audience can be reached. She currently performs as a freelance dancer with many groups, including Jean Appolon Expressions and Peter DiMuro/PDM. Stanton has created dances for film or public space for the Somerville Arts Council and Neoscape, among many independent musicians and film artists. She is on faculty at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee and The Harvard Dance Center. Bringing dance education into public schools through Notes in Motion, New York City Ballet, and Boston Ballet has been especially rewarding.