Taina Irma Cabrera Lyons

Taína Lyons is a San Pedro, California, native who began her dance training at the San Pedro Ballet School at the age of four. Her professional dance training started at the Debbie Allen Dance Academy, eventually being mentored by Debbie Allen herself. She graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts with a B.F.A. in dance and a minor in Spanish in 2020. There she performed in guest works by Ronald K. Brown, Wayne McGregor, and Lar Lubovitch. In the spring of 2019, she also had the pleasure of studying abroad at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, Czech Republic.

Since graduating, she has had the honor of being a founding member of the Limón Dance Company’s Limón2 (L2) company, an apprentice with Ronald K. Brown’s Evidence, as well as a recurring performing and touring artist with Kyle Marshall Choreography. Most recently she was a Mark Morris Dance Group company member from 2022-2024, and is currently both a Dance for PD® (Parkinson’s Disease) teacher and NYU Tisch Dance Adjunct Professor.