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Stefanie Batten-Bland

STEFANIE BATTEN BLAND sitting in a chair

Creative Director & Choreographer Stefanie Batten Bland (SBB) is an award winning immersive storyteller. SBB creates proscenium, cinematic and immersive worlds that answer the quest for belonging. 

Artistic Director for Company SBB, Creative Casting & Movement Director for Life & Trust, SBB pioneered the methods which made her the Performance-Identity liaison for Sleep No More, and the Artistic Director of the first immersive theatre summer intensive in the USA CONCRETE, she is constantly pushing the boundaries of mixed reality art.

SBB creates for fashion and lifestyle partners Louis Vuitton, Van Cleef & Arpels, Hermès, and Guerlain. She has produced 14 dance cinema films shown in international festivals in South Africa, Buenos Aires, Greece, and Germany, and was nominated for three Bessie Awards. She has been featured in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Dance Magazine, Marie Claire, and Dance Europe.

SBB’s work has been recently presented at BAM Next Wave, Danse Lille (France), Spoleto Festival (Italy), Lincoln Center, and Bates Dance Festival… SBB has recently received Creative Capital, Harkness Foundation, two NYSCA awards, Dance Advancement Fund, and NEFA grants—she is an associate professor at Montclair State University. IG: @sbb_land