Meet Dani Maloney

DMD Artistic Director and Founder

Dani's dance studies began at the age of three when she started taking lessons at Long’s School of Dance in Erie, Pennsylvania. Maloney’s passions translated into her college career at Shenandoah Conservatory where she received her Bachelor's of Fine Arts in dance and choreography in December 2017.

Along with her training, Dani created a group titled DMD (Dani Maloney Dance) that she would later turn into a nonprofit dance company in the year 2020. DMD is based out of Las Vegas, and produces work for live performance and film. The company has won film awards with the Lady Filmmakers Festival, Festigous International Film Festival, Screen Dance International, Kalakari Film Festival, Prisma Independent Film Awards, RED Movie Awards, Rome Prisma Film Awards, and The BeBop Channel. The company also competed in the World of Dance 2022 Championship Week and placed in the America top 10.

Aside from choreographing multiple pieces on her collective, she also has choreographed for “Cirque Du Giselle”, an aerial and dance play for the Hollywood Fringe Festival, “From Vegas, With Love”, set work on different performance groups, and has taught masterclasses and workshops across the United States.

Maloney has performed with various professional performance companies working as a dancer, singer, actress, acrobat, contortionist, and aerialist. She has been seen with the LA Philharmonic in Barry Edelstein’s production of “The Tempest” by William Shakespeare where she worked for Patrick McCollum (Tony Award, The Band’s Visit). She’s been seen performing specialty and dance around the United States with production companies such as TMU Events, Interlaced Productions, Dragon Talent Group, QProductions, Posh Productions, Undercover Productions, DBD, and Belluscious. She has also worked for JKAY Choreography for 3 consecutive NYE events where Pitfall, Janet Jackson and Gwen Stefani were the headlines. She was a touring company member with DIAVOLO | Architecture in Motion under director Jacques Heim (Cirque Du Soleil).

Maloney is based out of Las Vegas where she has performed as a dancer/aerialist in Cherry Boom Boom, a show created in Los Angeles by one of the original Pussy Cat Dolls. Maloney worked with the director/creator Lindsey Allen, and choreographers Lisa Eaton and Melanie Lewis-Yribar while at CBB. In Vegas, she also teaches at Millennium Dance Complex Las Vegas. She also worked at the Bellagio Mayfair Supper Club as a full time After Dark dancer, Specialty Artist, and a swing Main Show dancer.

Dani is a certified 200 hour yoga instructor with the Yoga Alliance, with additional training certifications as an Ayurvedic Specialist, in Yin Yoga, Chair Yoga and Restorative Yoga.

Maloney recently worked with Carnival Cruise Lines and OnTheFly Pros as a dancer/aerialist. The company created and installed shows with aerial elements for the first time on their brand new ship the Mardis Gras, and Dani had the pleasure of being involved in this creation process working with the directors Keith and Sharon Young (Rent), Paul Roberts (Harry Styles, Spice Girls), Aaron Jackson and JR White (2 Creative Entertainment), Jill Hillier (Ricky Martin), Jason Whicker and Jennifer Reagan (King Kong Broadway). Carnival Cruise Lines brings Dani back as an install director, where she helps create and set the fleets newest center stage shows that incorporate dance, aerial, circus, and live music.

She is the choreographer for Neil Goldberg and has worked under his direction in 2022 and 2023 to bring the military tour (2022) and Miami residency (2023) of “Pomp, Snow and Cirqueumstance” and the Denver residency (2022 and 2023) “Cirque: Spirit of Christmas” to life.

Dani was The Keeper at Particle Ink: Speed of Dark, am immersive show in downtown Las Vegas where she was the dance captain and rehearsal director in 2022. The show is now at the Luxor Casino where she again is the dance captain and plays the role of Lilith. Along with being the artistic director of DMD, she also is the event and talent coordinator at AREA15. Dani is represented by Go 2 Talent Agency.