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.  She also studied classical piano and violin for many years; more recently, she has studied Pilates, Yoga, Tai Chi, Vipassana Meditation, Qigong, and the Feldenkrais Method © of movement education.  Lisa has danced professionally in the Philippines with The Philippine National Folk Dance Company, Bayanihan. Not surprisingly, she is a two-time Austin Critics' Table nominee -- for Best Performance of a Dance, and more recently for Choreography for DA!'s Leave it to Beverly (for which she also received a B. Iden Payne nomination).

Ms. Del Rosario currently dances locally with Moving Voices Dance, Sheep Army/Elsewhere Dance Theatre, Subclavian Groove Dance Company, Yellow Tape Construction Co., Califa Collaborative Arts & many other independent choreographers. Favorite performances with these groups and individuals include Neither Going Up the Hill Nor Down, This Vivid Life Up and Front, Sunny Side Up, Shish Ka Bob, For Office Use Only, Counting, We Are Normal Cha Cha Chaaaa, But I Could Do That, Inside A Broken Clock: A Tom Waits Peepshow, Dance With A Glass of Water, Shining Star, Garden of Forking Paths, Myself In Your Shoes, Big Range Dance Festival 2008 - 2010, Fuse Box 2008, A Thumping Raging Explosion of Marvelous Light and Texture, Dance Carousel 2009, Bodies in Urban Spaces, The Sheep Social, Bona Ina, and Home with Yellow Fever. In March 2010, as part of the Mabou Mines Residency Program in New York City, Lisa unveiled her inner Burlesque dance by choreographing STRIP by Amparo Garcia-Crow, and taking on the roles of Candy Barr and Juanita Slusher. On New Year's Eve, to round out her 2010, she performed in a funk show with RubyRico Productions entitled The Good Foot, for which she played a Sugarfoot Hustler.

As DA!'s resident choreographer, Lisa has been integral to all of the Collective's major projects from the beginning, including performing seductively with her backpack, quirkily discovering a soccer ball, & choreographing Jude's rolling pin tango in both incarnations of Direct Object, creating the boisterous bird movements in Heron & Crane, playing the adorable pixie Trixie in Leave it to Beverly (while also staging the full-cast Capri-pants-worthy climactic dance-off), collaborating with Kirk on the opening sequence for ASW's Time Steps, and, of course, bringing her original site-specific tour-de-force at HPT, Relative Space, to vibrant life! In August of 2010, she traveled with DA! to New York City with Heron & Crane-- not only as choreographer, but also to take on the role of Heron!

Lisa has taught and choreographed for UT, Radford University, Tapestry Dance, the Dougherty Arts School, the McCallum High School Fine Arts Academy, and the Texas Arts Project at St. Stephen's Episcopal School; Lisa is currently in her ninth year of teaching at Ballet Austin, where she teaches pre-ballet and Feldenkrais ATM. In July of 2008, Lisa completed training in New York to become a Guild Certified Practitioner of the Feldenkrais Method; under the tutelage of educational director Dr. Larry Goldfarb; she is now a fully certified instructor.