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Lisa del Rosario

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 and in her later years 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 an Austin Critics' Table nominee for Best Performance of a Dance.

Ms. Del Rosario currently dances locally with Moving Voices Dance, Sheep Army/Elsewhere Dance Theatre, Subclavian Groove Dance Company, Yellow Tape Construction Co. & 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 Carousel 2005, Dance With A Glass of Water, Shining Star, Garden of Forking Paths, Myself In Your Shoes, Big Range Dance Festival 2008, Fuse Box 2008, A Thumping Raging Explosion of Marvelous Light and Texture, Dance Carousel 2009, and Bodies in Urban Spaces.

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 and choreographing Jude's rolling pin tango in the original Direct Object, creating Michelle and Jude's boisterous bird movements in Heron and Crane, 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!

Lisa has taught and choreographed for UT's Informal Classes, 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 seventh 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! Congratulations, Lisa!

FUN FACTS
superpower levitation; healing house smokehouse
action Starlight animals white crane
lips "Breathe through it." objects red summer dress; a marionette
film strip Yoda; Lucy Liu from Charlie's Angels question mark She can be known to go blithely through her day without spilling the full glass of water balancing on her head.
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. ...read more

PROJECTS

Relative Space
Lisa's original site-specific movement installation was a HUGE hit during its two-week run at Hyde Park Theatre in December. All of DA! was proud and honored to produce and perform a show described by enthusiastic reviewers as a "joyous rumpus in... one of our most beloved spaces" (The Austinist) and a "rapidly unfolding spectacle of... exhilarating discovery" (Austin Live Theatre)... in fact, the show set a new record for ticket sales for an "off-night" production at Hyde Park!.

VIVA MEXICO!
Lisa recently returned from touring with Sheep Army/Elsewhere Dance Theatre in Mexico, where her Dance with a Glass of Water was a huge hit! They also performed Performatica on May 1st and May 3rd at The Blue Theatre as part of Ron Berry's Fuse Box Festival 2008.

Big Range Dance Festival
Lisa is involved with three programs for this year's Big Range Dance Festival (under the leadership of Ellen Bartel and Spank Dance Company) 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.

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)

PHOTOS
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