Meredith Cabaniss is a multi-creative artist based out of southern California. She graduated with honors from the University of California, Santa Barbara with a B.F.A. in Dance. During her studies she received a University Research Grant for her departmental Honor’s Project, the Corwin Award for choreography, and other departmental honors. Ms. Cabaniss also traveled to Tel Aviv, Israel, to study with Batsheva Dance Company as a recipient of the Patricia Sparrow scholarship.

After finishing her undergraduate education, Ms. Cabaniss received her M.F.A. in dance at Hollins University in collaboration with the Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, The Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts, and The Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company (formerly the Forsythe Company). Additionally, she continued her professional studies in dance and movement and has pursued certifications in Vinyasa and Yin yoga, the Acrobatic Arts syllabus, and Dance Education Laboratory through which she holds Level 1 and 2 certifications for Language of Dance.

As the founder and artistic director of Selah Dance Collective, Ms. Cabaniss has produced full evening-length performances and presented works throughout the United States and abroad, with her work performed most recently in Estonia, Norway, Finland, and Italy. Ms. Cabaniss also currently serves as co-artistic director of Sespe Dance Co in Ventura and a featured artist with Nebula Dance Lab in Santa Barbara, most recently producing a collaborative, multi-media evening-length work at the historic Lobero Theater. Ms. Cabaniss is currently on faculty as ballet master at the prestigious Camarillo Academy of Performing Arts and is the program coordinator for Children’s Creative Project through the Santa Barbara County Education Office which advocates for art education for every child in Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties. While traveling nationally and internationally as a dance educator and advocate for the arts, Meredith also serves as Executive Director of Santa Barbara Dance Alliance and as a board member for Artspace Inc/Center Stage Theater, a black-box style community theater in downtown Santa Barbara. She is honored to be on faculty teaching movement for preschoolers at The Dance Network.