Artsbeat · May 2026
Choreographer Tania Vergara Pérez, from Cuba, received a "Creative Champion" award and shared how engaging in her art and connecting with other artists provided stability and community in her transition to a new country and cultural landscape.
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A showcase of works-in-progress shows the promise of emerging local creatives — including an excerpt from Tania Vergara Dance-Theater's Echoes of My Barrio. "Vergara Pérez's choreography is deeply organic and at the same time unlike anything you may have ever seen a human do," writes Carrie Seidman.
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Carrie Seidman reviews HuMangrove, Tania Vergara Dance-Theater's new work inspired by the resilience and interconnection of the mangrove, premiered at Sarasota Contemporary Dance's In-Studio Series.
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Choreographer Tania Vergara Pérez brings the influence of the island to Sarasota's Tania Vergara Dance-Theater. A profile by Carrie Seidman for Artsbeat.
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"The 'little engine that could' company is in its infancy, but not when it comes to its talent and skill." Carrie Seidman reviews Sarasota Cuban Ballet's Romantic Night, which featured Tania Vergara's choreography.
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Voyage Tampa · December 2023
Tania Vergara, born in Cuba in 1968, is a distinguished dance artist who founded Ballet Contemporáneo Endedans in Camagüey in 2002, blending classical, contemporary, and theatrical dance. Moving to the United States in 2014, she launched Endedans Contemporary Ballet with the support of four women, marking its U.S. debut in Sarasota in 2023. The company celebrated National Women’s Month with performances dedicated to notable writers and was named the Best New Dance Company of 2023. Despite challenges like financing and lack of a permanent base, Tania remains committed to her artistic vision, creating works that entertain, provoke thought, and explore complex themes through dance.
Read the article →Sarasota Magazine · December 2023
Endedans Contemporary Ballet, the new company founded by Cuban-born choreographer Tania Vergara Pérez, was named Best New Dance Company of 2023 by Sarasota Magazine.
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Your Observer · July 2019
Vergara Pérez studied ballet for eight years while growing up in Camagüey, Cuba. After receiving her dance degree, she taught at Cuba’s prestigious National Ballet School from 1986 to 2013. She also founded the Cuban contemporary dance company Endedans, for which she was also the director and choreographer. After moving to the U.S. in 2014, she started teaching at the School of Ballet Arts in Lake Worth before joining the faculty of the Sarasota Cuban Ballet School. She has since become a sought-after (and award-winning) choreographer across the U.S. and Cuba.
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Herald-Tribune · July 2018
The first half of the show ended with a long, but imaginative contemporary work by Vergara, “The Swans Are Still Alive,” which filled the stage with more than 70 dancers, male and female alike in stiff white tutus. That anyone could put that many bodies on stage without a disaster is astounding in itself, but Vergara also has a knack for creating dramatic and arresting visual works that don’t skimp on the wow factor.
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DanceView Times · April 2018
Sarasota choreographer Tania Vergara’s world premiere of “Fractales” closed the afternoon. The choreography plays with the kind of group behavior seen in flocks of birds and schools of fish when, for no clear reason, a single individual breaks off from the group and performs movements that run counter to it.
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Herald-Tribune · July 2017
The first half concluded with the entire student body performing “Ocean,” by Tania Vergara, a dramatic contemporary work with both men and women clad in voluminous, floor-length, royal blue satin skirts. Vergara deserves kudos not only for a visually stunning work, but for the ability to organically integrate that many dancers into a cohesive and impactful whole.
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Shepherd Express · January 2017
“But the Swans Are Still Alive” by Cuban choreographer Tania Vergara is among the wisest, most compassionate, most ravishing short dances I’ve ever seen. It made me care no end for its 16 boys and girls in tutus. I want to see it again and again.
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Juventud Rebelde · September 2014
The last minutes of the performance corresponded to Piazzolla X 6, by the renowned choreographer from Camagüey Tania Vergara, who, as on other occasions, left us samples of her original sense of choreography and her good taste. La Vergara proposes the interaction of dancers and musicians in a very contemporary dimension, given to blurring the traditional boundaries between arts. Impressive the presence of Viengsay Valdés together with Víctor Estévez.
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Radio Rebelde · September 2011
The Cuban contemporary ballet company Endedans, based in Camagüey, received a standing ovation in Hamburg, Germany on its first presentation ever in Europe. The company performed “La Carmen,” a peculiar version of the ballet inspired by Georges Bizet’s opera by Endedans director Tania Vergara.
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Cuban Headlines · October 2008
The telephone rings and, to her surprise, the person on the other end is no other than Alicia Alonso, director of the Cuban National Ballet Company: “I’m calling about the Ibero-American Choreography Contest. We, the jury — from the NBC, the Fundación Autor and the SGAE — are gathered here and we decided to call you and congratulate you. The prize is definitely yours.”
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