Michele Tantoco is a dancer and movement educator living in Philadelphia. Since 2002, Michele has been a member of the Leah Stein Dance Company.  In 2006 she and three other Philadelphia dancers collaborated with London-based choreographer/teacher Sean Feldman in a new work Toward Within, which premiered at Swarthmore College.  She has also had the honor of working with many Philadelphia-based choreographers such as Gabrielle Revlock, Meg Foley, Daniele Strawmyre, Nicole Canuso, Myra Bazell, Darla Stanley, Charles Anderson, and Kate Watson-Wallace.  Most recently Michele performed in Kathryn TeBordo's YOU AIN’T GONNA GET GLORY IF THAT’S WHAT YOU CAME HERE FOR in the 2009 Live Arts A.W.A.R.D Show, and in Jumatatu Poe's Philadelphia premiere of FLATLAND.
Michele has a BA in Biology from Bryn Mawr College, and teaches dance, yoga, and pilates based classes in Philadelphia.