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“I am committed to using technology in my dances but not for the purpose of making a comment on technology, but rather to use it as a tool to express the human condition. I think that there are many disadvantages to using technology, it is expensive, difficult to set up and can steal the show by drawing too much attention away from the dance. I love the beauty and the simplicity of a warm body moving without frills, but I think technology is part of our common language now and to not create a relationship with it in dance seems like ignoring a vital tool for connection.”

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Born in Tehran, Iran, her parents are Scottish and Israeli. Her father, David Stronach, was an archaeologist of ruins of Ancient Persia as well as a professor at UC Berkeley. Her mother was also an archaeologist, Ruth Vaadia, where they both worked together on excavations at a site in Tehran. They were married in 1996 and Tami is their second child. She has an older sister, Keren. The family fled Tehran during the Iranian Revolution in 1979 and moved to Israel. Her father became a professor in 1981.

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She got her acting debut as The Childlike Empress in The Neverending Story, a film adaptation of Michael Ende’s novel Die Unendliche Geschichte. She was nominated for a Young Artist Award for Best Young Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture Musical, Comedy, Adventure or Drama for this role.

She hasn’t had any other known acting roles since as her parents preferred that she didn’t continue to act as there were many dangers for child actors in Hollywood. She has acted in the play, Chambre, at the La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club and studied acting with Laura Esterman when she got older. She also had a leading role in a Czech fantasy film, Posledni z Aporveru. The film was about two children trying to save the world from being destroyed.

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In 2017, she announced that she would join Lauren Holly in an independent comedy called Ultra Low.

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She released a 45 RPM single around the same time as The Neverending Story called Fairy Queen. Another single, Riding on a Rainbow, was released too. They track are synthpop.

Dance

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Since she acted as a child, she has been am ember of an Israeli dance troupe in the United States with the Neta Dance Company. She jointed them in 1996. She has choreographed and performed her own works since including The Maid and the Marmalade. She took her dance aboard to Australia in 2006 too.

Dance Studio

She is currently the artistic director of Tami Stronach Dance in New York City. She also is the cofounder of the family entertainment company, Paper Canoe. A Brooklyn-based company, they offer local and international performances and workshops in order to strengthen the local artistic community. They’ve been active for two decades. They have presented in over 20 venues across New York City including St. Mark’s Church, Dance Theater Workshop, Joyce Soho, Joe’s Pub and PS122. They have toured across the United States including to England and Australia. The company also performs and teaches at universities and Stronach herself choreographs for both film and theater respectively.

The Tami Stronach Dance Company has received many grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, Goldman Sachs, the Brooklyn Arts Council, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Puffin Foundation and the Bossek Heilbron Charitable Foundation, to name a few.

Personal Life

She married Greg Steinburner on April 30, 2010. They have a daughter, Maya, whom was born in January 2011.

She actively speaks on inspiring others to keep their creativity going and to live using their imagination. She is dedicated to helping to build community as well as empathy using art, in any form.