LILI TEWES is a dancer based in New York and works as a performer, model, teacher, choreographer, and rehearsal director nationally and internationally. 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, CES Danceworks, CRDance Company, has performed works by Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, Pascal Rioult, Jacqulyn Buglisi, Virginie Mécène, Henning Rübsam, Caterina Rago, 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 at Lincoln Center. Most recently, she performed at Carnegie Hall. Lili was the director of the modern dance department at TANZWERK School for Ballet and Movement, served as the rehearsal director for Sensedance, Finleigh Zack Dance, CES Danceworks, and vildwerk. where she worked with Christopher Wheeldon and Joshua Beamish among others. 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. In the USA, Lili taught at Peridance, 92Y Harkness Dance Center, New York Theatre Ballet School, Western Connecticut State University, was a teaching artist with the DanceREACH program, and has taught 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.