Hi there! My name is Tierney and I’m a dancer working and living in New York City.

Tierney Sorensen is a dance artist born and raised in New Jersey. She began her training at Jamie’s Dance Odyssey under the direction of Jamie Down. She also received private ballet training from Barbara Sandonato and Gabriella Yudenich among others. Sorensen trained with The Koresh Dance Company in Philadelphia and was a member of the Koresh Youth Ensemble, directed by Melissa Rector. She graduated from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, under the direction of Susan Jaffe and Brenda Daniels, where she received her BFA in Contemporary Dance in the spring of 2018.

At UNCSA, Tierney has performed works by Trish Casey, Natalie Desch, Sean Sullivan, Dawn Marie Bazemore, Merce Cunningham, Brenda Daniels, Paul Taylor, Martha Graham, Aszure Barton, Robyn Mineko Williams, and Shen Wei. She has attended Shen Wei Dance Arts Winter and Summer Intensives and American Dance Festival’s Summer intensive, where she performed excerpts from Shen Wei’s RE: III staged by Sara Procopio. Sorensen was selected to attend the Kyoto International Dance Workshop Festival in Kyoto, Japan where she took classes with artists from all over the world. In addition to her dance training, Sorensen has worked as a dance teacher since she was 14 years old and hopes to pass on how beautiful dance is to young dancers.

I recently worked with Lincoln Center Education as a Kenan Fellow. I learned from my teaching artist mentor and assisted in classrooms to learn LCE’s teaching pedagogy.

Currently, I am dancing with Bryce Dance Company as a Company Dancer and I am also working with Gibney as a Center Training Associate. I also teach after school dance with FEMCHO at the Young Woman’s Leadership School of Astoria. I’m looking forward to where my journey as an artist and dancer takes me!