Tanina Urbanski’s dance training began at Chester Valley Dance Academy in Exton, PA.  There, she was trained in ballet, tap, jazz, modern, lyrical, contemporary, hip hop, and pointe work.  She is a graduate of Hobart and William Smith Colleges where she received a BA in Dance and Media and Society with a minor in Computer Science. During her time at the Colleges, she was a Janet Seeley Arts Scholar and a recipient of the Jean W. Reeves Arts Scholarship and performed at the American College Dance Festival.  She was a member and Co-President of the Koshare Dance Collective, performing, choreographing, and producing the annual concert each year.  Through Koshare, she pioneered the Day of Dance Workshop for high school and middle school students in the Geneva, NY area to visit  campus and experience a convention-like environment with various genres of dance taught by college dancers. 

As a dance educator and choreographer, her work has received awards at dance competitions and international dance festivals.  In addition, she has directed dance programs at various high schools in the Philadelphia area, most notably spearheading  the advanced Dance Company at Villa Maria Academy. Her choreography provides a vocabulary of fierce, passionate, explosive expression of movement with a calm and easeful approach of execution.