Born in the heartland of the United States to a Colombian mother and African American father, T’Ana Selah is a freelance choreographer, dance artist, and educator creating work rooted in movement, storytelling, cultural exchange, and embodied connection. Her practice is grounded in modern and contemporary dance while drawing from a diverse movement vocabulary shaped by her training in the United States and Colombia.

T’Ana began her dance journey at the age of three and has spent more than two decades developing her artistry as a performer, choreographer, and educator. In 2022, she received her Certificate of Training from the Department of Performing Arts at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia. There, she expanded her practice through street dance, Afro-Colombian traditional dance, contemporary floorwork, and somatic and release-based techniques. During her time in Bogotá, she performed with Teatro Mayor Julio Mario Santo Domingo and the James Cousins Company (UK) in collaboration with the British Council.

In 2023, T’Ana earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance from Point Park University’s Conservatory of Performing Arts, where she trained extensively in modern and contemporary dance, ballet, jazz, hip-hop, West African dance and drumming, and other movement practices. Her performance experience includes work presented through the Pillow Project at The Space Upstairs, Battery Dance Festival, Zion Dance Project, and other independent and collaborative platforms. She has performed works by choreographers including Camille A. Brown, Marc Spaulding, Yamoussa Camara, Rocker Verastique, and Danny Herman.

As a choreographer, T’Ana has created and presented work for organizations and platforms including TEDx Des Moines, the NAACP Ames Chapter, Encounter Performing Arts Company, Pittsburgh Playhouse, DOW Cinema, the 43rd Annual Battery Dance Festival in New York City, and the University of Iowa BFA Concert. Her work is driven by a desire to create meaningful movement experiences that connect performers and audiences through physicality, narrative, emotion, and shared experience.