Tanya Calamoneri is a teacher, performer and choreographer. She started dancing at the age of four, and trained in classical ballet, modern dance and contact improvisation in New Jersey and Washington DC before she moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1996 to study somatics at Moving on Center.

She began working intensively with Shinichi Iova-Koga/inkBoat in 2000, training in Japanese Butoh dance (Hijikata lineage) and Tadashi Suzuki’s Actor Training Method, and developing and touring Cockroach from 2000 to 2002. She has continued her studies in the US and in Europe with Yuko Kaseki, Su-En, Minako Seki, Carlotta Ikeda, Ko Murobushi, Yukio Waguri, and SITI Company.

In 2003 she presented a solo show entitled Bottomless Pit, which was heavily influenced by her work in Butoh dance. She also co-choreographed with Shinichi Momo Iova-Koga for Heaven's Radio, a Butoh-Beckett play directed by Allen Willner and presented by inkBoat. In San Francisco she danced for Kim Epifano from 1998-2000 in Sonic Luminescence and The Great Divide, Jess Curtis in Atrophy, and created five full-length shows with Krista DeNio and Allen Willner in violent dwarf. In 2002, she produced, choreographed, and performed in Transit Rider with director Allen Willner, and respected avant-garde music artists Nils Frykdahl and Dawn McCarthy; and created and performed Pound Foolish with Micaela Gardner at the Temescal Arts Center in Oakland and the East Bay Dance Festival at the Julia Morgan Theater in Berkeley. She helped found the Experimental Performance Institute at New College of California, where she taught contemporary dance, contact improvisation and physical theater. She is a Masters Candidate at NYU’s Gallatin School, concentrating on Japanese Performance and physical theater.