EDUCATION

Alonzo King LINES Ballet BFA Program at Dominican University of California 

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Dance      Honors, Cum Laude 2014

Minor, Arts Management 

COMPANY EXPERIENCE

Liv Schaffer – San Francisco, CA

• Untitled, Shawl-Anderson Dance Center (May 2020)
• Choreographic residency at Jacob’s Pillow (December 2019)
• Fatherland, Saludo, Inside/Out Festival at Jacob’s Pillow (August 2019)

• Lume, Yerba Buena Gardens Festival Choreofest (July 2019)

Katie Scherman + Artists – Portland, OR

• To Have it All, Bodyvox (March 2018)

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The MoveMessenger(s) – San Francisco, CA

• Fatherland, guest choreographer, Yerba Buena Gardens Festival (June 2018)

• I wrote you something new, Dancing in the Park SF (April 2018)

• O Magnum Mysterium, San Francisco Movement Arts Festival (January 2018)

• Army of Poets, Silicon Valley Dance Festival (March 2017)
• Sugar Maple Road, sjDANCEco (April 2017)
• Army of Poets, D.I.R.T Festival, Dance Mission Theater (March 2017)

• I wrote you something new, Cowell Theater (March 2017)

• Transitional Perspective, (February 2017) 

PROJECT EXPERIENCE

• ODC’s Sandbox Series, Byb Chanel (May 2017)

• DZINE Burning Bright, site specific performance (guest artist with Amy Seiwert’s Imagery, April 2017)

• ODC’s Sandbox Series, Amy Seiwert (March 2017)

• San Francisco Movement Arts Festival, Grace Cathedral, (Sculpted Motion, Anne-Rene Petrarca, January 2017)

• In Order of Appearance, SAFEhouse RAW Residency, (Alivia Schaffer, October 2016

• MASSES, Summer Performance Festival, ODC (ka·nei·see \ collective, July 2016)

• SOULSKIN Dance (Adrianna Thompson SF 2016)

• D.I.R.T. Festival (Harper Addison SF 2016)

• RAW Residency (Peter & Co. SF 2014)

• sjDANCEco ChoreoProject (Peter & Co. SF 2014)

• Dance For Another Day (Peter & Co. SF 2014)

DANCE FILM 

• Armstrong Infused, collaboration with Daniel Quinones, San Francisco Dance Film Festival, October 2016 

CHOREOGRAPHY 

There is Life Like Willows

• ODC Pilot Program (December 2019)​

• San Francisco Movement Arts Festival (excerpts, January 2020)

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Wonderment

• ODC Pilot Program (April 2019)​

• Shawl-Anderson Dance Center Spring Salon (April 2019)

• San Francisco Movement Arts Festival (excerpts, January 2010)

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through body, through song

• LINES BFA Program Fall Showcase (Marin, November 2018)

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Lost in the Archives

• PUSHfest at ODC Theater (San Francisco, September 2018)

• Yerba Buena Gardens Festival (excerpts, San Francisco, August 2018)

• San Francisco Movement Arts Festival (San Francisco, January 2018)

• Shawl-Anderson Dance Center Winter Salon 2018 (Oakland, January 2018)
• Dance Maui, hosted by Adaptations Dance Theater (excerpts, Hawai’i, November 2017) 

TRAINING 

• Northwest Dance Project LAUNCH:9 (2014)

• Hubbard Street Dance Chicago Summer Intensive (2011)

• Complexions Contemporary Ballet Summer Intensive (2010)

• Charlotte Ballet (2001-2010)

• LINES Ballet Summer Program (2009)

• Boston Ballet Summer Dance Program (2007)

• Canada's National Ballet School (2004-2006)

Photography: Robert Uehlin

TEACHING & ARTS ADMINISTRATION

TEACHING

• San Francisco High School of the Arts - Contemporary (2020)

• Sultanov Russian Ballet – Contemporary, Ballet (2018)

• Shawl-Anderson Dance Center – Open Adult Ballet/Teen Ballet (multiple levels, 2017)

• Youth Art Exchange – In-school high school hip hop (2017)

• Roco Dance – Junior and High School Contemporary Dance (2017)

• Dance Mission Theatre – Beginning Ballet (2016)

• LINES Dance Center – Open Adult Intermediate Ballet (2016)

• LINES Ballet Summer Program – assisted Carmen Rozenstraten and Maurya Kerr with

  choreography and repertoire classes (2016)

• Nagata Dance – outreach and enrichment programs, Pre-K- 5th Grade (2013-Present)

  JUNTOS Collective (2012 and 2017)

• Traveled to Guatemala in 2012 to perform and teach dance to communities, schools, and

  hospitals that do not have access to dance training

• In 2017, traveled as a solo teacher to lead week-long contemporary workshops to students

  at Nicaphoto in Nagarote, Nicaragua.

ADMINISTRATION 

• Roco Dance Assistant Manager (September 2018)

• LINES Ballet BFA Program Coordinator (February 2015 –2017; 2018)

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• Arrowed Down (Sandrine Cassini 2014)

• Safe Conduct (Gregory Dawson 2014)

• Onamonapia (Uri Sands 2013)

• ​La Baguette (Julia Adams 2013)

• Fur (Maurya Kerr 2012)

• Confrontation (Elisabeth Schiffbauer 2012)

• Brahms Trio for Piano, Horn and Violin (Gregory Dawson 2010)

• Landscapes (Sabrina Berry)

• Circuits and Links, LINES Ballet Summer Intensive (Heidi Schweiker)

• Valse Fantasie (Staged by Patricia McBride)

• Allemande (Heather Ferranti Ferguson)

• Scherzo (Mark Diamond) and Evolution in 2/4 Time (Mark Diamond)

• La Folia (Heather Ferranti Ferguson)

• Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux’s The Nutcracker premiered two years in a row

• National Ballet of Canada’s Nutcracker ( James Kudelka 2005)

ROLES

FEATURES

• Dance Teacher August 2018 Issue: "How LeeWei Chao Teaches a Pique Arabesque"

WORKSHOPS

• Contemporary Performance and Screendance Workshop with Natasha Adorlee Johnson (2016)

• Liss Fain 5-Day Workshop (2016)

• Amy Seiwert Contemporary Ballet Choreography Workshop (2016)

• New Dialect Winter & Summer Workshop (2015 & 2017)

• GYROTONIC Foundation Training (2012)

• David Bowie's "DJ" by The Welcome Matt Music Video: Directed and Choreographed by Christine Cali