ABOUT

Dolly Sfeir is a director and choreographer who grew up in Lebanon and moved to the States at the age of 19. She is a 2022 NYFA/NYSCA Artist Fellow in Choreography, the 2019 Grand Prize winner of the Palm Desert Choreography Competition, recipient of a 2023 NYSCA choreography grant and a choreographic fellowship at Jacob’s Pillow. She was awarded a residency with CUNY Dance Initiative to create an evening-length work which premiered at LPAC in Spring 2022, and was artist-in-residence for Abingdon Theatre Company. Her company commissions include Holstebro Dansekompagni in Denmark, WHIM W'HIM, Peridance Contemporary Dance Company, Battery Dance Company, Boca Tuya and Litvak Dance. She has been a guest choreographer and creative practice teacher at universities such as Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University, Manhattan Marymount College, Chapman University, Montclair University, CSU Long Beach, Orange Coast College and CSU Fullerton. She has developed a creative practice methodology, focused on unleashing creativity which she offers in universities, studios and theaters nationally and internationally. She led a course in the methodology at Chapman University. New Dialect has offered her and collaborator James Barrett a research residency for a new duet. Her work has been performed in venues and festivals such Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, Battery Dance Festival, Diavolo Dance Theatre and Dance Gallery Festival. Her film "It Cries too Loudly" has been at dozens of festivals such as San Francisco Dance Film Festival and Portland Film Fest, and has received awards such as 'best short film' (Wild Dogs Festival) and 'best cinematography' (Eastern Europe film festival). She is movement director of the upcoming play “The Pride Before”. Her work "Everybody is happy these days" toured in Denmark. She graduated summa cum laude from CSU Long Beach with a Dance BFA. In Lebanon, Sfeir appeared in nationwide musicals by the Rahbani Brothers including work choreographed by Debbie Allen.