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November 2007
1. What is your code name?
Cat with 9 lives.
2. What is your personal slogan?
“Change is happening.”
3. What is your spirit animal?
Spider.
4. So is Jude’s! Have you ever been bitten by a spider?
Yes, a brown recluse… twice within 3 months in 2007!
5. Do you have an allegiance to any particular fictional character, cartoon, or celebrity?
Betty Suarez / America Ferrera.
6. What is the first thing you'd buy with a million dollar inheritance from a long-lost relative?
Green building materials and land for a wellness center with some awesome studios.
7. If you could have a super-power, what would it be?
To take away suffering.
8. What were you hoping no one would find out about you?
My guilty pleasure for pumpkin spice lattes from Starsucks.
9. What would be the title of your first book?
What Is Your Own Unique Path?
10. What are some of your favorite quotes?
"May all beings be happy." - S.N. Goenka.
"Dance like no one's watching." - Anonymous.
"Whhaaaa???" - Kirk German in Mrs. Bob Cratchit…
11. What is your power food?
Any kind of cabbage!
12. What is your theme song?
Jeff Buckley's version of Bob Dylan's I Shall Be Released.
13. Finally, are you a ninja, a pirate, or a cowboy?
Ninja....Hiiii-yaa!!!
Saturday, February 23, 2008
In the midst of rehearsing for Just Say DA!: Direct Object, Lisa talks about her relationship with objects over the years…
I've been known to balance certain objects on my head: candles, bottles, glasses of water; I was training to balance twenty pots at one point when I was in the Philippines. You can see me hiking on the Greenbelt with a water bottle on my head.
My backpack has gone to the Philippines with me. A woman in the company I was dancing for called it “ugly” in the Filipino language at one point, as if I didn't understand. That was an awkward moment, because the woman and the other couple of people around realized that I understood what she had said; it was because it wasn't "girly" like the bags the women usually carried around for shows. Filipinos in general thought it was strange that I carried that backpack around. At this point, I've carried it to three countries and about fifteen states. It hasn't seen the stage yet and can't wait for its debut...
February 2008
Lisa answers questions about her former student and current colleague, Michelle Brandt.
What super power does Michelle already have?
She can become any shape.
What is her slogan
“My soul is older than this body.”
What is her codename?
Bendy Beauty
Who do you think she may have been in another life?
Jessica Rabbit.
Of what is Michelle a champion?
She is a champion base partner.
What is her spirit animal?
A python.
If she were an object, what would she be?
A Japanese fan.
What else can you tell us about her?
(cryptically:) She can be known to be a keystone…
To see what Michelle says about Steph, click here.
To see what Jude says about Lisa, click here.
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BIOGRAPHY
Lisa
del Rosario
began her dance studies at the Margo Marshall School of Ballet and the
Cleveland San Jose School of Ballet. She continued her training as a
presidential scholarship student at the University of Texas at Austin where she received her B.F.A. in Dance.
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PROJECTS
The Heron and The Crane
Lisa will also be choreographing DA!'s up and coming educational project, The Heron and The Crane, adapted and directed by Kirk German.
Lisa Goes to Mexico
Lisa just returned from touring with Sheep Army/Elsewhere Dance Theatre in Mexico! They also performed Titled?/Untitled? on May 1st and May 3rd at The Blue Theatre as part of Ron Berry's Fuse Box Festival.
Big Range Dance Festival
Lisa is involved with three programs for this year's Big Range Dance Festival in Austin this June: Sheep Army/Elsewhere Dance Theatre, Subclavian Groove’s The Red Curtain, and in a series of improvisational pieces performed by professional movers and musicians.
Yellow Tape
Lisa is currently in rehearsal for Yellow Tape Construction Company's next dance show, A Thumping, Raging Explosion of Light and Marvelous Texture, to be performed in October at Salvage Vanguard Theatre.
TAP Camp
Lisa will be joining the staff at Texas Arts Project again this summer as Co-Head of the Dance Department with Heather Huggins, Ballet and Modern Instructor, and Showcase Choreographer. Kirk German, Michelle Brandt, and Stephanie Denson will also be returning.
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TEACHING
Feldenkrais® ATM class
"In creativity a great role is played by complete body liberation, i.e. setting the body free from muscular overstrain which chains the body and prevents it from being a conductor of our psychic movements." - Stanislavski
Movement(ATM)
Modern Dance Class
“Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.” (Martha Graham)
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