Tiffany Mangulabnan (she/her) is a New York-based Filipino dancer, choreographer, and ballet teacher, as well as a founding co-artistic director of Brooklyn-based contemporary ballet company konverjdans.

Born and raised in Manila, Philippines, Tiffany began her professional career with the Philippine Ballet Theatre at the age of was 15, and went on to become the company’s Principal Ballerina at the age of 20, performing the lead roles in full-length classical ballets like Swan Lake and David Campos-Cantero’s Carmina Burana, the Dew-Drop Fairy in Gelsey Kirkland and Michael Chernov’s The Nutcracker, Paquita in Paquita Grand Pas Classique, and featured and principal roles in the contemporary ballets of renowned Filipino choreographers such as Enrico Labayen, Edna Vida, Tony Fabella, Gener Caringal, Ronilo Jaynario, Julie Borromeo, Felecitas Radaic, Alden Lugnasin (for Ballet Philippines), and many others.

She moved to New York City in 2012 and spent four years performing with BalletNext under the directorship of former American Ballet Theatre and New York City Ballet principal dancers Michele Wiles and Charles Askegard, and helping to create original roles in ballets by choreographers like Mauro Bigonzetti, Katarzyna Kozielska, Peter Quanz, Brian Reeder, Tobin Eason, and Wiles.

Tiffany has since enjoyed a rich freelance career in New York City, performing as a dancer with The Metropolitan Opera as well as with contemporary and modern ballet companies such as Gabrielle Lamb’s Pigeonwing Dance, Gleich Dances, Indelible Dance, John Passafiume Dancers, Abanar, Emery LeCrone DANCE, Claudia Schreier & Company, Trainor Dance, Terra Firma Dance, Alison Cook Beatty Dance, and Brookoff Dance Repertory Company. She has performed on several prestigious New York stages, such as The Joyce Theater, New York Live Arts, BAM Fisher, The Metropolitan Opera, and others. She has performed in extended runs of Brendan Fernandes’ performance-installation work, including The Master and Form at The Whitney Museum of American Art; Contract and Release at The Noguchi Museum; Returning to Before at The Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, PA; and many other works. She stars in Robin Cantrell’s film Triptych, which won Best Screendance Short at the 2022 IMDb Independent Shorts Awards.

As a performer, she has earned praise for delivering “the most intense moment [of a piece] . . . in a thrashing solo” (The New York Times), for “dancing with a muted fierceness that conveys a hard-fought serenity” (Bachtrack), for having “the most magnetism and spirit” among a group of performers and showing “improvement and more depth of character with each performance” (Broadway World).

Since co-founding konverjdans with Amy Saunder and Jordan Miller in 2016, Tiffany has choreographed and presented a new work for the company every year since 2017. Several of her pieces have been performed at festivals like Battery Dance Festival, Periapsis Open Series, Norte Maar’s CounterPointe series (for two years in a row), the Women in Dance Leadership Conference in NYC, the Riverside Dance Festival in Vero Beach, FL, Carolina Ballet’s Choreographers Spotlight Series in Raleigh, NC, and several others.

Her choreography has been described as “strange. . . touching . . . unique and quite beautiful” (Critical Dance); “beautifully captur[ing] the struggles and tantalization of eternal beauty that women often face” (The Dance Enthusiast). Of one of her ballets, Alana Bleimman of CVNC writes:

“The entirety of the piece was utterly captivating and elicited feelings of sadness, hope, preservation, and peace. I am eager to continue following Mangulabnan's work and hope that Carolina Ballet brings her back to Raleigh's stages very soon.”

Tiffany’s work has been performed at several venues in New York City and across the U.S., including but not limited to: New York Live Arts, Manhattan Movement & Arts Center, the Alvin Ailey Citigroup Theater, the North Carolina Museum of Art,  The Miller Theater, The Kumble Theater, Mark Morris Dance Center, The Mark O’Donnell Theater at the Entertainment Fund Arts Center, Triskelion Arts, and Riverside Theater in Vero Beach, Florida. Most recently, her choreography has been commissioned by Indelible Dance for their upcoming ‘Waste Your Time’ performances co-produced with NOoSPHERE Arts in Greenpoint, NY (September 27 & 28, 2025), and by Sonder Space in Philadelphia, PA (slated for February 2026).

In 2021, Tiffany was selected by a panel of prestigious judges to be one of four choreographers for Dance Lab New York’s first Female Choreographers of Color in Ballet Lab, and in 2024 she was awarded a Micro MAP Fund Grant for her work as a dancer and choreographer. She has also written, directed and choreographed a handful of films, including HER PRIDE, which was screened at Earl Mosley’s 2021 'Dance is Activism' film festival, and the documentary short Behind the Puzzles Pieces, which was nominated for Best Documentary Short at the 2022 Seattle Film Festival.

Tiffany is also a passionate and sought-after teacher of advanced and professional ballet, teaching as a guest artist at institutions such as SUNY Purchase College Conservatory of Dance, the Joffrey Ballet School in Manhattan, NY Community Ballet, and Peridance Center in New York City. She is also an experienced rehearsal director and choreographic assistant, assisting choreographer Caili Quan in her debut works for both New York City Ballet (Oct 2024) and BalletX (Nov 2022).

Photography by Joe Raffanti