Meredith Ventura | Director of Education and the Professional Track

Meredith Ventura is a multi-creative artist based out of southern California. She graduated with honors from the University of California, Santa Barbara, with a B.F.A. in Dance, received her M.F.A. in dance at Hollins University in collaboration with the Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main, and The Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company (formerly the Forsythe Company). She is a Ph.D. student at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies. She has performed as a professional modern dancer throughout California, New York, and abroad in Europe and the Philippines.

As a choreographer and dance educator, Ms. Ventura has produced full evening-length performances and presented works throughout the United States and abroad, most recently in New York City at Gibney’s Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center in spring 2024. She joined the faculty of State Street Ballet in 2021. She was promoted to the Director of Education and the Professional Track in 2023, where she developed the new Choreography and Dance Education certificate programs. During her time with State Street Ballet, she has had the opportunity to collaborate with the New West Symphony and Opera Santa Barbara. Ms. Ventura is currently on faculty at dance studios throughout Southern California and travels nationally and internationally as a dance educator and advocate for the arts.