New York City Dance Alliance (NYCDA)

Incorporated in the early fall of 1993, New York City Dance Alliance was founded by Executive Director, Joe Lanteri, to create a dance convention with a cutting edge point of view, from the dance capital of the world, New York City. His first step was to contact the person that would help him create this vision, NYCDA Managing Director, Leah Brandon. During the winter of 1994, NYCDA traveled to four pilot cities with their original five distinguished faculty – Suzi Taylor, AC Ciulla, Lisa Danias, Alan Onickel and of course, Joe, himself.