Breanna O'Mara
Teaching Artist
Read moreAn international performer based in Vienna (AT), Breanna O’Mara was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan and graduated from The Juilliard School in New York in 2011, where she was a recipient of the Joseph W. Polisi Award.
O’Marais a freelance artist, most recently collaborating with Dimitris Papaiouannou, Liquid Loft, Bobbi Jene Smith, and each colleague in these projects. In 2021 she was awarded the Danza&Danza Award as best interpreter and received Startstipendium for the performing arts from the Austrian Federal Ministry of Art (BMKÖS). She became a member of Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch in 2014, performing a wide range of works from the repertory, and is now the newest member of the Advisory Board to the Pina Bausch Foundation. Breanna has been in creation with several artists such as: Cecilia Bengolea & François Chaignaud, Chris Haring, Ryan McNamara, Johannes Wieland, Stijn Celis, Alexander Ekman, Jack Ferver, and more. She has choreographed performance pieces which have been presented in New York, Germany, Italy and Detroit, and regularly teaches at various institutions in both the United States and Europe. O’Maraalso works as rehearsal director for contemporary pieces with the Paris Opera Ballet.
In 2009, O’Marafounded Detroit Arts Immersion, which brought workshops as well as free performances to various communities in Detroit who had limited opportunities in the arts. Since 2023 she has been guiding “Pop Up Moves” in Vienna, an improvisation dance party for all!
