Lauren Lovette is a former principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and an acclaimed independent choreographer. In her time with the company she has earned both the Janice Levin Award and the Clive Barnes Award for dance.

She has created works for the New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, American Ballet Theatre’s Studio Company, Paul Taylor Dance Company, among others. Her collaborators include musician Kate Davis, poet Andrea Gibson, and fashion designers Fernando Garcia and Laura Kim of Oscar de la Renta/MONSE, Zac Posen, Narciso Rodriguez, and Victor Glemaud.

In 2019, Ms. Lovette was named Artist-in-Residence for Damian Woetzel’s prestigious Vail Dance Festival. In 2018, she was awarded a Virginia B. Toulmin Fellowship for Women Leaders in Dance at The Center for Ballet and the Arts at New York University.

Since December 2018, Ms. Lovette has served as Artistic Chair of the Board of Groove With Me, an organization that offers hundreds of young women free dance and movement classes, with the goal of providing a safe and nurturing environment in which to practice self-expression and explore potential.