CHOREOGRAPHERS
We are proud to introduce the incredible choreographers joining us for Season 1.
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Tiffany Mangulabnan / Choreographer
Dancer, choreographer, ballet teacher, and co-artistic director of konverjdans
Tiffany Mangulabnan (she/her) is a Filipino dancer, choreographer, teacher, and founding co-director of konverjdans. Born and raised in Manila, Philippines, she was a principal dancer with the Philippine Ballet Theatre until 2012, when she moved to NYC to dance as a soloist with BalletNext for four years under the artistic direction of former ABT and NYCB principals Michele Wiles and Charles Askegard. Since 2016 she has enjoyed a rich freelance career in NYC, performing with companies like Emery LeCrone DANCE, Claudia Schreier & Co., Gleich Dances, Trainor Dance, Terra Firma Dance, Indelible Dance, and several others. She currently dances at The Metropolitan Opera as well as with Gabrielle Lamb’s Pigeonwing Dance and the company she co-directs, konverjdans, for which she has choreographed a new work every season since 2017. As a performer, Tiffany has earned praise for delivering “the most intense moment [of a piece] . . in a thrashing solo” (The New York Times), and for showing “improvement and more depth of character with each performance” (Broadway World). Her choreography, meanwhile, has been described as “utterly captivating” (CVNC), “strange, touching, unique and quite beautiful” (Critical Dance) and “beautifully captur[ing] the struggles and tantalization of eternal beauty that women often face” (The Dance Enthusiast). Her choreography has been performed by konverjdans, Carolina Ballet, Woman in Motion Dance Co., Columbia Ballet Collaborative, Columbia Repertory Ballet, Barnard Dance/Columbia University, Moravian University and other institutions, and has been presented at venues such as New York Live Arts, Mark Morris Dance Center, Triskelion Arts, The Mark O’Donnell Theater, and The Kumble Theater in NYC, as well as at festivals such as Battery Dance Festival, Periapsis Open Series, CounterPointe, Carolina Ballet’s ‘Choreographer Spotlight Series’, the Women in Dance Leadership Conference in NYC, and Riverside Dance Festival in Vero Beach, Florida. Tiffany teaches advanced open ballet classes at NY Community Ballet and Peridance Center. She has been a teacher and guest choreographer at Barnard College/Columbia University and at The Joffrey Ballet School of New York, and has taught the Advanced Point & Variations course at SUNY Conservatory of Dance at Purchase College. She is also an experienced rehearsal director and choreographic assistant, assisting choreographer Caili Quan in her debut works for both New York City Ballet (Oct 2024) and BalletX (Nov 2022).
Juri Onuki / Choreographer
Creator, performer, and movement consultant
Juri Onuki is a choreographer, movement director, and yoga teacher originally from Japan who has been living and working in New York City since 2006. Her work has been shown in New York City, Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Japan. She frequently collaborates with artists from different mediums including music, visual and performance art, theater and film. Her unique style of movement is evidenced in the wide range of works she has contributed. Onuki has worked with Luca Guadenino for “ We Are Who We Are” (HBO), Marina Abramovic, Jean Coleman, Charlotte Hornsby, and Leslie Cuyjet. Commercial credits include Ralph Lauren, Vogue, GQ, Coach, Uniqlo, GAP and H&M. Her music videos and live set collaborations include The Chainsmokers, Blood Orange, Maggie Rogers, Caroline Polachek, Lola Young, SOPHIE, and Gus Dapperton.
Photo by Jenna Elizabeth
Donna Salgado / Choreographer
Dance artist, choreographer, director of CONTINUUM Contemporary/Ballet, teacher, and creative
Donna Salgado is a performing artist and choreographer working in New York City. She is the founder of Continuum Contemporary/Ballet. Continuum aims to expand the role of creativity in ballet by engaging in processes that encompass experimentation, collaboration, new vocabularies, and design. Donna’s choreographic honors include being selected as a choreographer for the National Choreographers Initiative 2024, being named a State Individual Artist Fellow in Choreography in 2025, and presenting her work at the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival for 3 seasons. Continuum has been programmed by Bryant Park’s Summer Dance Series, the Newport Dance Festival, Vermont State University, the 92nd St Y, and the Ballet on the Beach Dance Festival, to name a few. Her commissions include the Columbia Ballet Collaborative, Counterpointe Festival for Women Choreographers, Latin Choreographers Festival, Newport Contemporary Ballet, Sierra Nevada Ballet, Princeton University Ballet, and the Harvard Ballet Company. In 2025 she was awarded a Gibney Dance Center Rehearsal Space Residency and she is a two-time recipient of residencies at the Sky Hill Farm Studio, and has participated in a creative retreat at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park. Donna holds an MFA in Dance Performance from SUNY Purchase and a BFA in Dance Performance from Towson University. She’s studied at summer programs at ABT, CPYB, and Lines Ballet. She has performed professionally with the José Mateo Ballet Theatre, Eglevsky Ballet, Rebecca Kelly Ballet, Connecticut Ballet, Dances Patrelle, Thomas/Ortiz Dance, David Fernandez’s Some Dance Company, Deborah Lohse’s ad Hoc Ballet, and Marika Brussel, among other independent choreographers. During her performing career she’s also danced in works by George Balanchine, Paul Taylor, Gabrielle Lamb, Edwaard Liang, Amy Seiwert, and Juanjo Arques in his work created for NYU’s Center for Ballet and the Arts. She’s performed as a principal guest artist and in commercial work, and, at home in her own work, has performed with her company, Continuum, since its inception. Donna has devoted her life to finding where the worlds of ballet and learning intersect. Through her certifications in Pilates and Floor-Barre, and participating in the teacher training at the Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet under Marcia Dale-Weary, she teaches Ballet with a commitment to pedagogical understanding, anatomical knowledge, and technical clarity. She has been a faculty member for the School at STEPS, the Gelsey Kirkland Academy, and the Joffrey Ballet School. In 2023, she was extended a leadership position at José Mateo Ballet Theatre as an Artistic Associate where she led and rehearsed a company of 21 professional dancers in Boston.
"Choreographing for The Ballet Salon was an inspiring experience! The culture being created is one of community, artistic celebration, and joy. Meiying and Adriana are forging a pathway for those desiring to reclaim their artistic selves through ballet. Their multitalented group of artists has a strong clarity of purpose and work ethic, making rehearsals productive and rewarding.”
- Donna Salgado, Facets Choreographer