PHILOSOPHY
Steffi is a progressive, ballet-expansive choreographer who is passionate about creating opportunities for underrepresented dancers in award-winning works for professional companies, pre-professional academies, and international collaborations. Steffi's original choreography is grounded in extensive cultural and dramaturgical research to eradicate harmful racial stereotypes in classical ballet and create culturally representative works (ex: Steffi's original Turkish Coffee and Chinese Tea in The Nutcracker).
UPCOMING
In February 2025, Steffi served as ballet choreographer for the modern vaudevillian production, Combat Cabaret (Scene + Heard, Dublin, Ireland). For summer 2025, Steffi is choreographing five original works to be performed by A Step Above (Vista, California).
RECENT
From 2023-2024, Steffi choreographed eight micro-movies for their Masters by Research thesis, The Games We Don't Play: Using game-studies to evaluate the playability of classical ballet as an art form and an industry in the 21st century United States.
MAJOR WORKS
ONGOING
Steffi created Renversé Ballet as a virtual resource committed to amplifying diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the classical ballet industry -- and often choreographs original movement for RB's summer intensives.
Steffi is a progressive, ballet-expansive choreographer who is passionate about creating opportunities for underrepresented dancers in award-winning works for professional companies, pre-professional academies, and international collaborations. Steffi's original choreography is grounded in extensive cultural and dramaturgical research to eradicate harmful racial stereotypes in classical ballet and create culturally representative works (ex: Steffi's original Turkish Coffee and Chinese Tea in The Nutcracker).
UPCOMING
In February 2025, Steffi served as ballet choreographer for the modern vaudevillian production, Combat Cabaret (Scene + Heard, Dublin, Ireland). For summer 2025, Steffi is choreographing five original works to be performed by A Step Above (Vista, California).
RECENT
From 2023-2024, Steffi choreographed eight micro-movies for their Masters by Research thesis, The Games We Don't Play: Using game-studies to evaluate the playability of classical ballet as an art form and an industry in the 21st century United States.
MAJOR WORKS
- Turkish Coffee in The Nutcracker (cultural choreographic reform, 2025)
- A Fool's Game (MRes exhibition and micro-movie collection, 2024)
- First Year (full-length ballet, 2022)
- Dude (short dance film, 2022)
- Identity (curating twelve (12) short-form virtual works, 2022)
- Chinese Tea in The Nutcracker (cultural choreography reform, 2021)
- Reconnect (short-form virtual works, 2021)
- Just Another Day (one-act ballet yielded by Dance Ireland choreographic residency, 2019)
- Peter and the Wolf (one-act ballet, 2019)
- Dance Gallery (Founding Co-Producer and Choreographer, San Diego Ballet, 2014-2016)
ONGOING
Steffi created Renversé Ballet as a virtual resource committed to amplifying diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the classical ballet industry -- and often choreographs original movement for RB's summer intensives.
