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| Diane Coburn
Bruning
Diane Coburn Bruning currently holds both a Guggenheim Fellowship and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in choreography. Based in New York, her works have been performed by Atlanta Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Boston Ballet, Ballet Chicago, Daghdha Dance Company (Ireland), American Repertory Ballet, Joffrey II, Ballet Hispanico, Nashville Ballet, Indianapolis Ballet Theatre, Juilliard Dance Ensemble, Chautauqua Ballet, Aspen Ballet, and Ballet Pacifica among others. Diane is founder and Artistic Director of the new Chamber Dance Project, dancers and musicians, based in New York. The Project is dedicated to new works in contemporary ballet performed with chamber musicians as well including music played alone and commissioning of musical scores In addition to the Guggenheim Fellowship, Diane has received fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, a previous fellowship from NYFA, New York State Council on the Arts, Meet the Composer, Sundance Film Institute, as well as the McKnight National Fellowship from the Minnesota Dance Alliance, The Carlisle Project, Pentacle, and a Heathcote Award for new work in New York. She has choreographed productions with Glimmerglass and Pittsburgh Operas, and other theatre productions. She has received a Bronze Medal at Boston Ballet’s International Choreography Competition, and a Dewar’s Young Artist Recognition Award. The NEA and Americans for the Arts sponsored her in an artist exchange creating a work for a Daghdha Company in Ireland. Diane has taught composition and ballet at companies and universities, helped found and directed the annual Pacifica Choreographic Project, and directed the Choreographer Composer Project for Minnesota Dance Alliance. She has served on NYFA, NEA, APAP, SC Arts Commission and other national panels, and as an adjudicator for the American College Dance Festival. She was a teaching artist for the New York City Ballet Education Department and Lincoln Center Institute. Diane studied composition with Bessie Schoenberg and is a graduate of the Jordan College of Fine Arts of Butler University.
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