Diane Tomasi
BAX Teaching Artist & AcroBAX Director
Diane Tomasi (she/her) is a queer cis white woman who performs on the ground and in the air, as a dancer and aerialist. She began as a gymnast at the young age of 2, later began to dance, and then was introduced to aerial through an inclusive, abled/disabled body workshop with Blue-Eyed Soul Dance Company in the UK. Diane has performed at Galapagos, Slipper Room, Jacob’s Pillow, The Wild Project, Dance New Amsterdam, The Muse Brooklyn among other places and with Phaedra’s Cabaret, Ko-Ryo Dance Theater as well as in her own work. Diane currently facilitates tumbling/acrobatics, aerial, and dance classes and is the director of AcroBAX at BAX|Brooklyn Arts Exchange. Diane is interested in the ways in which these movement styles weave in and around each other and is constantly finding ways to fuse them together. Diane has been teaching since 2001 and is particularly interested in exploring the presence of fear and vulnerability in learning as well as the deep need for trust and community while moving through that fear. She is interested in the immense confidence and joy that can be attained through vulnerability and learning as well as the ability to move the body in new and exciting ways. Diane teaches all ages throughout NYC solely teaching ‘Open Level’ classes as she is interested in breaking-down the hierarchy of ‘talent’ vs learning ability and community. Diane’s classes are upbeat and welcoming of all ability, body-type, race, gender, and sexual-orientation.