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LISA K. LOCK holds a Ballet
Diploma from the Grande Ecole de Danse in Bern, Switzerland and a BFA
and MFA Degree from the California Institute of the Arts.
In 2006, Lisa, relocated to
Cleveland from Los Angeles, where she continues to choreograph and
perform locally, nationally and internationally.
She was awarded an Ohio Arts
Council Individual Excellence Award for 2009. Lisa also was voted best
female dancer of the year 2004 by the Beverly Hills Outlook, and in
2002 she received a Lester Horton Award for Outstanding Achievement in
Choreography in Los Angeles.
Her solo work has been showcased
in Cleveland, Cincinnati, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Honolulu,
and San Francisco, she performed in Switzerland and Lithuania, as well
as in major European cities like Vienna, Paris, Madrid, and Edinburgh,
Latin America showcases include Guatemala City and Antigua in
Guatemala.
Since her move to Cleveland, Lisa
has presented two evening long works at the Cleveland Public Theater,
and has been a featured artist in Cleveland’s Ingenuity Festival of
Art and Technology. She also had a great opportunity to work with
Opera Cleveland on several productions, both as a choreographer and
performer.
She created original works both
for Cleveland Contemporary Dance Theater and Dancing Wheels, and is
working on a short piece for Verb Ballets.
Currently she functioned as ballet
mistress for Dancing Wheels, as well as teaching ballet at various
studios in the greater Cleveland area. She has been a guest teacher
for Verb Ballets, and taught ballet company classes for Cleveland
Contemporary Dance Theater in their’06 -’07 season, recent
performing and teaching residencies include Kenyon College and Ohio
University, as well as setting a work on the Kent State University
Dance Ensemble.
Past employment in Los Angeles
incl. the California Institute of the Arts, Edge performing Arts
Center, Pomona-, Scripps-, Moorpark-, Cerritos and L.A. Pierce
College, as well as the Idyllwild School for Music and the Arts.
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