Danielle recently completed her time as Artist in Residence at Tribeca BMCC via CUNY Dance Initiative, fully choreographing and directing her own evening of repertory, and became Co Artistic Director of Jazz Choreography Enterprises at the start of 2024. Throughout this year she choreographed for the Ailey BFA program, New York Dance Project, St. Paul's ballet program, Counterpointe, Ballet Hartford, Accent Dance, Treadfast Dance Company, Chrysalis Ballet and Earl Mosley's Diversity of Dance. She also choreographed New York Circus Project's tour of Hamlet this summer, was Artist in Residence at Westport's Academy of Dance this fall and will choreograph for St. Louis Ballet next spring. She has been commissioned by Jacob's Pillow, Stars of American Ballet, Performance Santa Fe, Avant Chamber Ballet, Columbia Ballet Collaborative, Central Utah Ballet, Ballet Hartford, Woman in Motion, Ballet Excel Ohio, Earl Mosley's Diversity of Dance and the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, among others. She was a featured choreographer for DanceBreak (musical theater's leading platform for upcoming Broadway choreographers), made her Off-Broadway choreographic debut at the AMT Theatre with 'An Unbalanced Mind,' presented work at the McCallum Theatre/Palm Desert Choreography Festival and the New York Theatre Barn Choreography Lab held at Baryshnikov Arts Center and was awarded a grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts/City Artist Corps to present a full evening of her choreography.
She is a winner of the New York Dance Project Choreography Competition, a junior board member of Jazz Choreography Enterprises and a choreographic mentor for We Are Queens. She also choreographed 'My Way' at Theatre by the Sea, the AEA production of the Vaudevillian musical 'On the Air,' choreographs and assistant directs intermittent musical theater showcases at The American Musical and Dramatic Academy and has served as Associate Choreographer for Lorin Latarro. She is on faculty at the Steps on Broadway Academy and Manhattan Youth Ballet and also enjoys teaching professional level classes for Steps on Broadway, Mark Morris and Peridance. Ms. Diniz has a B.A. in English (concentration in Shakespearean Studies, minor in Dance) from Cornell University.