After suffering from injuries that forced Diane to retire from performing, she founded SHARP in 2005 and premiered the company at the Delaware Dance Festival in March 2006.
In 2009 Diane was selected for the Cool 2009 NY Festival and she was invited to bring SHARP to the inaugural Wilmington Fringe Festival and the Phoenix Fringe festival 2010. She was selected as a 2008 New Edge Mix Artist Award recipient in Philadelphia, PA and she has been commissioned to set work on Mid-Atlantic Ballet in 2008 and 2009.
Diane started her career in Pittsburgh, dancing with Pittsburgh based, Mary Miller Dance Company from 1992-1994. She returned to Philadelphia to dance on scholarship with Philadanco. Diane has also danced professionally with Juan Antonio and dancers, Trapezius Aerial Dance Company, Deborah Birrane, Anne-Marie Mulgrew and Dancers, Convergence
Dancers and Musicians/Dance Matrix and Amsterdam based company Jacqueline Knopps and dansers.
Diane has performed with Pennsylvania Ballet Theaters’ Principal dancers Leslie Carothers and Meredith Rainey and Dirk Platzik, formally of The White Oak Project with Mikhail Baryshnikov.
Some of Diane’s teaching experience includes: Indiana University of Pennsylvania, The Governor’s School of New
Jersey and Assistant Director of the Penn State University Abington Dance Company.
Her past musical choreography includes: Wizard of Oz, Secret Garden, Damn Yankees, Fame, Smile, How to Succeed in Business, Grease and Beauty and the Beast.
Some of Diane’s other original work has been showcased in Philadelphia, Maryland, Pittsburgh, Delaware, New York and
at the New Zealand Embassy in Washington D.C.
