Program Books/Reed Tankersley
A headshot photo of Reed Tankersley, a fair-skinned man with short, wavy brown hair, looks into the camera.

Reed Tankersley

dancer

Reed Tankersley (dancer) is from Northern California and earned his BFA from the Juilliard School in 2014. He then joined Twyla Tharp’s 50th Anniversary tour and has continued to perform with the company in Tharp works including In the Upper Room, Nine Sinatra Songs, How Long Blues, The Fugue, Brahms Paganini, Ocean’s Motion, and Eight Jelly Rolls. He has also worked as a repetiteur for Tharp’s Baker’s Dozen. In 2019, Reed ran away to the circus and toured the country as the lead performer in Cirque Du Soleil’s Volta. Reed is a YoungArts Winner and one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch.”