Performance photos and posters
*This gallery is by no means complete....I have a terrible track record of recording my stage life. Feel free to send me photos if I have worked for or with you and your project is not represented!
Ratched....Netflix. The Dance, episode 5
So, I got to dance in a batshit crazy scene in the new Ryan Murphy show, Ratched on Netflix. It stars so many amazing people. Thanks to Mary Ann Kellogg for the wonderful time and love to her assistant and amazing dancer/choreographer /friend John Todd, who passed away in March this year. Bittersweet. Check out the episode on Netflix. It dropped September 18. I'm doing some high kicks with my lovely partner Seth behind THE JUDI DAVIS.
Deadwood Movie
So, they shot a Deadwood Movie. I got to dance in it. For real.....
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TV shows for the win!
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AMERICAN PRINCESS
Got to shoot a super fun spot for the Lifetime series American Princess. An audition scene choreographed by the AMAZING Kat Burns! First aired Sunday June 30, 2019 |
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VEEP
So thrilled that I got to work on the final season of HBO's VEEP! A super fun square dancing scene choreographed by the amazing Nicole Berger! Episode 8 in the final season.
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Nixon in China. LA Phil's Adams at 70 series.....
Nixon In China at The Los Angeles Philharmonic, conducted by composer John Adams as part of the Adams at 70 series. March 3 and 5, 2017
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With my partner in crime and fellow ballet prisoner, Kristen Deiss.
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Eye makeup for days! (and a less than flattering wig)
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The great and gracious John Adams conducting his masterpiece at Disney Hall.
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Dancers Jasmine Perry, Candy Olsen and me with our amazing choreographer Leslie Stevens
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A performance capture of the beginning of the ballet highlighting the juxtaposition of the live performers and video.
Got to visit San Francisco to guest with one of my very favorite companies, 42nd Street Moon. Silk Stockings was a joyous experience, especially working once again with choreographer Jayne Zaban, one of my first mentors.
Dressed as Vera, the Russian ballerina
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With Hannah Knapp and Corinne Proctor
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The original musical Dolls, at the Santa Monica Playhouse. I sang and danced Valentina, a suicidal ballet doll who does eventually get her (wooden soldier) prince. The production was Ovation nominated and extended numerous times.
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A screen grab from a super fun web series pilot starring and produced by Tiffani Sierra.
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My first starring dramatic role on stage. So rewarding.
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A few pictures from Calle 13 La Bala, a multi-national dance video project to raise awareness of gun violence throughout the world. Directed by Simon Brand. (I am the jumping girl closest to camera. )
A short musical film starring Bohdi Elman. Joseph Corella and Brooke Engen choreographed for Director Mu Sun.
SIng For Your Supper is a sweet short film, set in a dystopian world where the only currency is song. I danced in the big dining room scene and got to wear really cool Depression era clothes!
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A few stills from our Surrender to the Mystery short dance film. I choreographed (and styled and produced....) but also danced, so thought I would share a few captures.... (with Sylvie Gosse and Alicia Foo. Samantha Macher is also pictured laughing...we laughed A LOT). Heidi Marie was behind the camera.
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Bad things are happening....the ensemble
Being conjured by Bruno Oliver
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My first show in LA, Zina Bethune's Frost and Fire, based upon a Ray Bradbury story.
With Kim Borgaro
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With Westley John, Ceasar Fernando Barajas, and Kujo Lyons. (Yes, I am horizontal....and Kujo is in a handstand...)
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Here is a still grab from my first film job in Los Angeles, in 2007. It was a celebration of the life of Jazz Legend Claude Thompson, choreographed and directed by Matt Dickens.
This one job led to so so so many others, to my longest teaching job (I still teach there!) and to my long time agent representation (Shout out to Lisa Coppola, who is STILL my beloved agent.)
I loved dancing it. I loved Matt and I love that blond in the background, Diva Jillian Schmitz, who became a dear friend.
Connection. This career is all about connections.
This one job led to so so so many others, to my longest teaching job (I still teach there!) and to my long time agent representation (Shout out to Lisa Coppola, who is STILL my beloved agent.)
I loved dancing it. I loved Matt and I love that blond in the background, Diva Jillian Schmitz, who became a dear friend.
Connection. This career is all about connections.
Two self produced original projects created with friends...
With Jamie Glowacki and Lisa-Marie Newton
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With Jennifer Fagundes
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This poster hung, in huge oversized glory, at the Moonspace for a while. A long while. I loved being there once I had moved to LA! It was a little weird to stare at it while rehearsing for other shows though!
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A meditative short film on being a dancer and letting go. A lovely script by Michelle Lee and beautiful choreography by Brian Chung. I was so honored to be entrusted with the story.
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My Eyes Have Their Own Light was a full length evening of classical song, dance and music. Act One was this beautiful pas de deux, the title ballet, which was choreographed by Michael Kruzich and danced by me and Charles Torres to the gorgeous voice of soprano Sylvia Eowyn Bloom. Act Two was a solo to Mirabai Songs, choreographed by Robin Kurland and once again, danced by me. Sylvia was once again the soloist. The evening was rounded out by the Kronos Quartet. It was produced by me and Sylvia as a benefit for the Women's Needs Center of the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic.
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I was a member of the San Francisco company of The Phantom of the Opera for the entire run. I started as a ballet dancer and became a musical theater artist, adding singing and acting to my skill set and performing the lead role of Meg many times. It was a fantastic experience that I will treasure always.
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The original Christine Company Ballet Girls with The Phantom: (clockwise starting left: Madelyn Berdes, Melinda Stubbe, Davis Gaines as the Phantom, Cecelia Dangcil, Tracey Allen as Meg, Candy Olson, Linda Montener and me.
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With dear friend Dana Stackpole
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Ready for the Don Juan opera as Meg....
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Ready for Masquerade as Meg with Candy and Sylvia Eowyn Bloom
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As the Gypsy in Masquerade with Megan Starr Levitt
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With our mascot, Maddy Claire Parks (who is now on Broadway as Luisa in The Fantastiks.....)
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As Meg with the incomparable Lisa Vroman as Christine.
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