Award-winning choreographer Silvana Cardell has been creating and presenting collaborative work in her native Argentina, in the US and internationally since 1990. Cardell is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards including Fundacion Antorchas, Subsidio Nacional de Teatro, Temple University Fellowship, Swarthmore College Project, Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Performance grant, New England Foundation for the Arts, National Dance Project, Mid Atlantic Foundation for the Arts, and The Philadelphia Cultural Fund. She holds a Masters in Fine Arts in Choreography from Temple University and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance from University of the Arts. She is currently the Chairperson and Director of Dance at Georgian Court University in New Jersey and Cardell Dance Theater Artistic Director.