Stefanie Batten Bland | Choreographer/Director
Stefanie Batten Bland (SBB)—global maker, 2025 NEW MUSIC USA artist, 2023 Dance Magazine Cover Artist, 2022 BAM Next Wave Commissioned artist—straddles the artistic scenes of NYC and France. SBB’s work explores contemporary and historical cultural symbolism, the body as a political statement, our cultural identifiers, and their influence in power dynamics.
SBB creates proscenium, cinematic, and immersive worlds that answer the quest for belonging. As the Artistic Director for Company SBB, Creative Casting & Movement Director for Life & Trust, Performance-Identity liaison for Sleep No More, and the Artistic Director of the first immersive theatre summer intensive in the United States, CONCRETE, she is pushing the boundaries of mixed reality art. SBB performed for Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, Lar Lubovitch, Tanztheater Wüppertal Pina Bausch, Hungarian choreographer Pal Frenák, Jérome Savary at the Paris Opéra Comique, Georges Mombôye of the Côte d’Ivoire, PunchDrunk/Felix Barrett’s Luna Luna.
SBB’s work has been recently presented at Danse Lille (France), Spoleto Festival (Italy), Lincoln Center, and Bates Dance Festival. SBB has recently received Creative Capital, NYSCA, Harkness Foundation, Dance Advancement Fund, and NEFA grants—she is an associate professor at Montclair State University.
