LILI TEWES is a dancer based in New York and works as a performer, model, teacher, choreographer, adjudicator, and rehearsal director nationally and internationally. Her career has taken her from Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall to the pages of Vogue. Originally from Hamburg, Germany, she graduated from the Martha Graham School under the artistic direction of Janet Eilber, where she danced principal roles in several of Graham's ballets, including "Woman in White" in Diversion of Angels and "Pioneer Woman" in Appalachian Spring. She danced for RIOULT Dance NY, Sensedance, and CRDance Company, has performed works by Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, José Limón, Pascal Rioult, Jacqulyn Buglisi, Julie Pecquet, and Adam Barruch, and collaborated on projects with Alastair Macaulay (former New York Times Chief Dance Critic), New York Theatre Ballet, Lydia Johnson Dance, and Buglisi Dance Theatre. Most recently, she performed at Carnegie Hall. Her work as a choreographer was featured at Tanztheater Wuppertal create, presented at the Martha Graham Studio Theater, and she was awarded a residency at K3 Center for Choreography at Kampnagel. As the rehearsal director for vildwerk. she worked with Christopher Wheeldon and Joshua Beamish, among others. Lili is on faculty at Peridance, New York Theatre Ballet School, and Ballet Arts, has taught at 92Y Harkness Dance Center and Western Connecticut State University, was a teaching artist with RIOULT’s DanceREACH program, and teaches workshops and masterclasses across the globe. From the age of ten, she studied Hula under Kumu Hula Kalei'ulaokala Makekau, to later join her company in Hawai'i and toured Europe and the USA. Lili was one of the dancers featured in the December Issue 2024 of US Vogue, edited by Anna Wintour and Marc Jacobs, which was shot by Inez + Vinoodh.