Latanya d. Tigner currently performs professionally with and serves as the administrative coordinator of Dimensions Dance Theater, the bay area’s oldest African American dance company, which celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2022. She is also the Artistic Director of Dimensions Extensions Performance Ensemble, DDT’s pre-professional group, and co-manages the company’s youth program Rites of Passes. Additionally, Latanya has taught dance at UC Berkeley since 2016 and is the curatorial director of Dancing Cy(i)phers, an annual symposium that researches and embodies the coded languages of Africana dance. She has shared her embodied research at CADD, IABD, CDEA, NDEO, Show and Prove, University of the West Indies-Barbados, and in Paris.Latanya has presented Hip Hop’s Embodied Expression of Resistance & Resilience, Back to the Root: The Healing and Spiritual Power of the Spine and Pelvis in African Rooted Dance, Back to the Root: Dancing Ancestral Cosmologies, and has co-authored Close up: Step-Touch in New Orleans Popular Dane (2023). She has also served on the Hewlett Foundation’s Arts Education Task Force, the Alliance for California Traditional Arts’ Taproot Initiative, and California Dance Education Association’s greater board, and has served as the Co-Artistic Director of the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival (2018-2021).