Sierra Tanji

Sierra Tanji grew up dancing at SCPA and then moved on to graduate from Cal State University Long Beach with a Bachelor of Science in Dance Science.  She has always been interested in injury prevention for young dancers, and one day intends to further this career in kinesiology.  However, she also has a strong drive towards movie musicals, and bridging the gap between narrative film and dance film. Sierra recently choreographed, starred in, and co-directed a dance short film called "C'est LA Vie" which premiered at the Long Beach Art Theater and will be featured in more film festivals coming up in 2024.  In 2023, Eliza Loran and Tanji created a theatrical concert dance work titled "1:23 AM 4th & Cherry Ave."  which fuses vaudeville acting, tap dance, and contemporary dance to form a silly and joyous performance piece.  This work won them "Best Performance” at the 2023 Socal Dance and Choreography Dance Festival.  Sierra is trained in a variety of dance forms including, tap, contemporary-modern, jazz, hiphop, and ballet.  Tanji tries to blend the variety of skills she has in order to create unique and new work to further the art industry in LA film and concert dance.  South Coast performing Arts was her second home growing up and she is thrilled to be coming back to create new experiences for the current dancers and students to learn from! Love you SCPA FAM!