Meet Dani Maloney

Today we’d like to introduce you to Dani Maloney. 

Hi Dani, can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today.
My name is Dani Maloney, and my dance studies began at the age of three when I started taking lessons at Long’s School of Dance in Erie, Pennsylvania. My passions translated into my college career at Shenandoah Conservatory where I received my Bachelor’s of Fine Arts in dance and choreography in December 2017. Along with my training, I created a group titled DMD (Dani Maloney Dance Company) that I would later turn into a nonprofit dance company in the year 2020. 

DMD (Dani Maloney Dance Company) is a professional dance and production company based out of Las Vegas, Nevada. The company creates and produces production shows and dance concerts for live performance and film. DMD creates elite performance landscapes incorporating dancers, circus artists, musicians, singers, and innovative technology. The company aims to create impactful work by combining athleticism, acrobatics, partnering, contemporary dance, and a narrative that will carry you through an entire piece. 

I work professionally as a dancer, aerialist, contortionist, choreographer, and director. My career moved me out of a very small town in Pennsylvania and has traveled me to many places. I currently reside in Las Vegas where I am creating my home base for my performance work and for my dance company. 

I’m sure you wouldn’t say it’s been obstacle free, but so far would you say the journey has been a fairly smooth road?
The performance industry is intense and constantly in flux. I am so grateful for the career that I have created for myself, but we often only speak about the highlights that we have experienced. Our successes are only 5% of the attempts we have made to book work. There are countless auditions that I have been cut at, emails and video submissions that go unanswered or are denied, and other rejections. When you are chasing a dream, there is a lot of chasing involved. The hard work makes the moments where your dreams come to fruition magical. However, the journey itself can be even more magical if you allow it to be. I have learned to love the process, regardless of how challenging it can be. Even when the journey isn’t what I expected or planned for, the right opportunities and moments come to me when the moment is correct. 

Thanks – so what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
DMD (Dani Maloney Dance Company) has won film awards with the Lady Filmmakers Festival, Festigous International Film Festival, Screen Dance International, Kalakari Film Festival, Prisma Independent Film Awards, RED Movie Awards, Rome Prisma Film Awards, and The BeBop Channel. The company has performed live in Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and New York, and recently competed in the World of Dance 2022 Championship Week placing in the America top 10. DMD’s mission is to reach a wide variety of people by increasing accessibility to the arts with its productions and to foster equity and inclusion in the arts. The company aims to cultivate a creation process that is equally as fruitful as the ending product by working in an efficient, safe, and fair manner for the artists, creatives, and production team. Aside from choreographing multiple pieces on DMD, I also choreographed for “Cirque Du Giselle”, an aerial and dance play for the Hollywood Fringe Festival, set work on different performance groups, teach weekly at Millennium Dance Complex Las Vegas, and have taught masterclasses and workshops across the United States. 

As a performer, I have been seen with the LA Philharmonic in Barry Edelstein’s production of “The Tempest” by William Shakespeare, with production companies such as TMU Events, Interlaced Productions, JKAY Choreography, and Belluscious. I have toured as a company member with DIAVOLO | Architecture in Motion and performed as a dancer/aerialist in Cherry Boom Boom. I am a certified 200-hour yoga instructor with the Yoga Alliance, with additional training certifications as an Ayurvedic Specialist, in Yin Yoga, Chair Yoga, and Restorative Yoga. I recently worked with Carnival Cruise Lines and OnTheFly Pros as a dancer/aerialist where the company created and installed shows with aerial elements for the first time on their brand-new fleet of ships. Creatively, Carnival Cruise Lines brings me back to help with show installations and I work under Neil Goldberg as a choreographer and recently set the “Pomp Snow & Cirqueumstance” military tour under his direction. I currently perform as the Keeper at “Particle Ink: Speed of Dark”, a new immersive show in downtown Las Vegas where I also is the dance captain. I am represented by Go 2 Talent Agency. 

Something that I have actively worked to cultivate within myself is to always do more than one thing. I love having my hands in different hats and it has allowed me to work in different capacities. There is endless growth to be had in the arts and I am always inspired to learn more. The more you know, the more you realize you don’t know. 

How do you define success?
Success is what you believe it is. My thoughts on this has a “We plan, God laughs” theme to it. I have always gone headfirst for my dreams. I have very specific goals I want to achieve, and this has kept me on the path to continue training and growing. However, some things don’t always turn out in the way that you desire, but they turn out in the way that you need. Rather than seeing your unfulfilled fixations as a failure, it could actually be your perfect path unfurling in a way you didn’t predict. Success isn’t always what we think it is. I believe that going for your dreams is a must, but you also have to be open to what the world has in store for you. What you receive is often bigger than what you were originally reaching for. 

Contact Info:

• Website: www.danimaloneydance.com
• Instagram: https://instagram.com/danimaloney
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/danielle.maloney.9/
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3tUN459fYEu_A_-weurozQ
• Other: https://opensea.io/danimaloneydance

Image Credits
NLink Photographer
Estate Serenity
Lindsay Rosenberg