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Nonci Tirado, MISTD

Nonci Tirado is an esteemed World-Class Professional Champion Latin dancer, an award winning choreographer, and a film and stage actor.  Nonci is also a professional ballerina having danced with numerous opera companies across the US in principal roles dancing ballet, contemporary dance, jazz, modern dance and Spanish Classical dance. Nonci's Ballroom-Latin titles include US Latin National Finalist, North American Champion, Eastern US Champion, US Rising Star Champion, US Pro/Am Latin Champion (Nonci as the Pro) and undefeated Fred Astaire National Latin Champion. She was invited to perform shows in Japan, Costa Rica, Germany and France. She has trained with Latin-ballroom giants Espen Salberg, Ron Montez, Ruud Vermeij, Julie Laird and numerous others.  Nonci holds diplomas with the highest commendations in all ballroom styles including theatre arts from the Fred Astaire National Dance Association (FANDA) and the Imperial Society of Teaching of Dance, London, England (ISTD). 

Nonci Tirado, Ballroom Dancing Baltimore

As an acclaimed choreographer, Nonci recently choreographed CARMEN for the Maryland Opera. She was awarded the Mark Ryder Choreographic Award, and her dance film, Black Rose, was screened in Buenos Aires, Argentina (VideodanzaBA) and at the Born in Baltimore Film Festival sponsored by the Johns Hopkins Film and Media Studies Program.  She is honored to be the choreographer for the Alzheimer's Memory Ball Gala.

​Nonci is also a voiceover artist as well as a theatre and film actor. She has been seen in numerous television shows, films, industrials, and stage works. She has performed at The Shakespeare Theater (“Twelfth Night”) and Gala National Hispanic Theatre  (“House of the Spirits”) and most recently at 1st Stage (“MOJADA”). She performed with the stars of TV hit show “So You Think You Can Dance”, and has also appeared in several Discovery Channel made-for-tv shows and in the motion pictures Dance With Me and Avalon.

Her most valued accolades come from her students:

 

"Nonci Tirado is the “real deal.” ...A brilliant choreographer, technician, stylist and patient instructor puts her in a class of her own."   Susan Sunderland Defelice

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