Donna Sternberg has professionally premiered over 70 works since 1975 throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico; several have been collaborations with artists of other disciplines including composers, visual artists, poets, actors and digital media. She has choreographed four full-evening works, and is presently working on her fifth. Ms. Sternberg has been commissioned to create works for the California Science Center, Dance Moving Forward Festival, California Choreographer’s Festival, Catlin Gabel School in Oregon, Valley College and the Alleluia Dance Theatre. After college graduation she co-founded the Mixed Motion Dance Company, touring the West Coast. Desiring to work with artists of other disciplines, Ms. Sternberg next became Artistic Director of Dance Collaborative, choreographing and performing solo and collaborative concerts. She founded Donna Sternberg & Dancers, a contemporary dance company, in 1985 having danced in the companies of Donald Byrd, Mary Jane Eisenberg, Yen Lu Wong and Dance/LA. She has participated in adjudicated dance festivals such as Dance Kaleidoscope, Festival of Solos and Duets and Dance Moving Forward in Los Angeles, Choreographer’s Festival in Laguna Beach and Summerfest in San Francisco. Donna Sternberg & Dancers has been featured in Dance Magazine, Dance Spirit and on PBS station KCET’s Life and Times program.
