Dana Pajarillaga is a queer, Filipina-American dance artist living in Berlin. She has danced as a contemporary demi-soloist at Staatsballett Berlin, performing works by Sharon Eyal, Emanuel Gat, and Jefta van Dinther.

 

As a BFA Graduate of The Juilliard School, she has performed the works of Mercy Cunningham, Nacho Duato, Jerome Robbins, Andrew Tay, Christoph Winkler, and RUBBERBAND; in Montreal, New York, Toronto, and Berlin.

 

As a choreographer and teacher, her movement practice deals with unpacking emotional history in the body. In these times, she is working to dismantle the systemic racism that is inherent in contemporary art and the dance world at large.