Dana Sokolowski is an Atlanta-based writer, director, dancer and choreographer.
Writer
Award-winning poet & writer, respected by Sir Salman Rushdie and Pulitzer Prize winning poet Jericho Brown.
Received high honors for poetry collection, “Ground,” graduating Magna Cum Laude from Emory University with a Bachelors in Creative Writing and Film Studies. Specialize in poetry, fiction, screenwriting, and memoir.
Director/Producer
Produced 90+ episodes for national TV network across 3 unique series in the food and design spaces.
Winner of Best Georgia Film for short dance film “Who Sits Beside Us in The Bath,” Atlanta Women’s Film Festival.
Produced international films for Fortune 500 companies at a top creative agency, traveling from India to China, South Korea to Mexico.
Launched two non-profits dedicated to workforce equality. Film procured $2 million in funding dollars as of 2020.
Dancer/Choreographer
Adult Program dancer for top dance agency of the southeast, Xcel Studios.
22+ years of dance, choreography, and gymnastics training with credits from Step Up: High Water Season 2 to a State Championship Hip Hop title.
Tour in 1,000+ capacity venues across the Southeast.
Trained with industry moguls: Frank Gatson, Sean Bankhead, Chris Grant, Fullout Cortland, Brandon Jones, Kiki Ely, Marc Marvelous, Dave Scott, Brian Friedman, Anthony Burrell, and more.
Why I create
When I was a child, I wanted to be an author and a Spice Girl (still true). I wrote stories before I knew how to read. I cartwheeled everywhere I went. I launched myself off of stages. My world was both a fantasy and an amphitheater.
Today, as it was then, my commitment to play any & everywhere I am is driven by my desire for connection and belonging among strangers. I trust that people have a desire to share themselves, be heard and seen, to play and be celebrated—and I encourage that.
My life is about creating hypnotic worlds of raw feeling. I want people to explore their imaginations and emotions, to break out of tired structures that don’t serve them and bring them joy. I want people who have been told their whole lives to look and act and feel one way, to get to choose who they want to be that day.
Inherent in diversity is a vast creativity and imagination, capable of producing what no one can fathom alone. To create dream worlds of safety and belonging means that every individual can find freedom to express themselves and empowerment in identity and community. That is my goal.
Contact dana to get creating.