New Assistant Director – Traci Finch

Mannakin Theater and Dance is excited to announce Traci Finch as Assistant Director. Traci performed in the 2018 productions of The Nushell! in both San Francisco and Salt Lake City, as well as the October Performance and Fundraiser. Traci has danced for The Suzanne Farrell Ballet, Les Grands Ballet Canadiens, New Chamber Ballet, and CelloPointe. Recent projects have included dancing Merce Cunningham’s Cross Currents, Inventions, Locale, and Fractions and in Marco Pelle’s T+I at Lake Tahoe Dance Festival. Originally from Utah, Traci graduated from Brigham Young University with a BA in Dance.

Traci has taught in schools in NYC including The School at Steps on Broadway, Long Island City School of Ballet, and Breaking Ground Dance Center. She is a resident teacher at Lake Tahoe Youth Ballet, and a guest teacher in Utah, Connecticut, and Montana.

Traci has presented her choreography in NYC at The Secret Theater and at LeFrak Concert Hall in Queens and at South Oxford Space in Brooklyn with Artists by Any Other Name. She also received a choreographic residency in 2016 with Marie Chouinard Dance in Montreal, QC and looks forward to choreographing for Mannakin Theater and Dance.