Choreographer and director Dolly Sfeir grew up in Lebanon and moved to the United States at the age of nineteen.

Hailed for her “stunning work” (Palm Springs Desert Sun), Sfeir probes the instability of contemporary life through a fantastical and cinematic lens.

She is a 2022 NYFA Choreography Fellow, and the 2019 Grand Prize winner of the Palm Desert Choreography Competition at the McCallum Theatre. She received the Ann & Weston Hicks choreographic fellowship from Jacob’s Pillow, and was artist-in-residence for the Abingdon Theatre Company. She received a production residency with CUNY Dance Initiative to develop an evening-length physical theater dance work, which premiered at LPAC in Spring of 2022. She has been offered commissions from Holstebro Dansekompani in Denmark, WHIM W'HIM in Seattle, Peridance Contemporary Dance Company, Litvak Dance Company, Peabody at Johns Hopkins University, CSU Long Beach, Montclair University, Mare Nostrum Elements, among others.

She has developed a creative practice methodology, focused on unleashing creativity and breaking through fear, which she continues to offer in universities, studios and theaters nationally and internationally. She will be offering a course of this methodology at Chapman University In 2024.

Her film “It Cries too Loudly” has been circulating the film festival sphere nationally and internationally, at festivals such as San Francisco Dance Film Festival, Portland Film Fest, Austin Dance Festival, Short Waves in Poznan, and has received 'best short film' award from Wilddogs films festival and 'best cinematography' award from Eastern Europe Film Festival.

Her work has been performed at numerous stages in Denmark, the McCallum Theater in Palm Springs, the Battery Dance Festival, Diavolo Dance Theater, Alvin Ailey City Theater, the Nuvu Festival and many more.

Sfeir graduated summa cum laude from CSU Long Beach, where she was awarded a College of the Arts Scholarship and received a BFA in Dance.

She began dancing at Studio Arabesque in Jounieh, Lebanon, under her aunt’s direction and by age four began appearing in nationwide theatrical performances by the Rahbani Brothers including work choreographed by Debbie Allen.

She has been mentored by some of the most acclaimed figures in the world of dance, including Maxine Doyle, choreographer of Sleep No More, and Risa Steinberg of the Julliard School.