Sydney Donovan

Sydney Donovan is a Philadelphia performer, choreographer, educator, and healer. She graduated from the University of The Arts in 2019, receiving her dance BFA. After graduating, Donovan continued working with Uarts as rehearsal director for Bobbi Jene Smith and Annie Rigney;  then as guest choreographer she premiered her work Thy Spirit like Thy Flesh (2023).

As a freelancer, Donovan is a dancer with Opera Philadelphia: recently as principal dancer being the coyote in The Listeners (2024) choreographed by Raja Feather Kelly and self choreographed marble sculpture in II Viaggio a Reims (2025). She collaborated/performed with Paul Matteson in his work How Many Times (2020); performed in Lilach Orenstein’s She Will Come on Her Own (2021) featured in Dance Magazine and Zoe Scofield’s Princess Grace award winning work The Other Shore (2021), as well as Scofield's most recent work Tell the Truth & Shame the Devil (2025). Donovan was movement director of the creative film agency, Wear Your Feelings (2019-2022) and collaborated with Brandon Graf on a durational film The Poets Divination (2021).

Since 2024, Donovan has been a collaborator in BF & Artists, a Philly dance company led by Britt Fishel. In 2022, Donovan was an Artist in Residence at MOtiVE Brooklyn where she developed and performed her solo The Many in One are Mingled (2022). In 2024, she choreographed an evening length trio titled TRINE, that premiered at The Decon Phl launching her dance company OmenThrice.

Currently, OmenThrice is an artistic residence at Philly PACK where new work  Jack, Jill, and the Hill will premiere spring 2026.  Donovan is a dance professor and guest choreographer at Drexel University, as well as Assistant Director of the university's dance ensemble.