Christy teaching at the 2017 Boulder Jazz Dance Workshop held at CU Boulder. Photo: Wendy Turner
Christy earned her B.F.A. in dance from Cornish College of the Arts where she studied on a full scholarship granted by the Kreielsheimer Foundation. At Cornish she performed with Cornish Dance Theatre, received the Outstanding Dance Major Award, and her choreography was chosen to represent Cornish at the American College Dance Festival. Christy's choreography has been seen on the stages of Taproot Theatre, Cornish Dance Theatre, Interweave Dance Theatre, Cornish Theatre Department, Theater Schmeater, Variable Velocity, University of Texas, Cal Poly, University of Idaho, and Grand Canyon University. May 2014 brought the debut of “Black Cat Cabaret,” which she conceived, wrote, choreographed, and directed for the Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, Theatre & Dance Department. In February 2015, Christy was the Guest Artist in Jazz Dance for the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival in Moscow, Idaho.
She completed three contracts for Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, two as Dance Captain and Company Manager. At age fifteen, she performed in the Rudolf Nureyev Ballet Festival in Kazan, Russia as a member of Evergreen City Ballet and was honored to dance at the Artissima Festival of Art in Turin, Italy with Chamber Dance Company in 2010. She's performed the work of Wade Madsen, Deborah Wolf, Mark Haines, Nancy Cranbourne, David Dorfman, Lar Lubovich, Kraig Patterson, Gabriel Masson, Oskar Schlemmer, Shapiro & Smith, Bebe Miller, and many other modern and jazz dance visionaries. Since 1998, Christy has been a member of Interweave Dance Theatre in Boulder, CO.
Christy has been faculty at Cornish College of the Arts, Shoreline College, Hancock College, University of Washington, and Sammamish High School where she created the dance curriculum. She has been a Guest Artist for dance programs at University of Idaho, University of Texas—Pan American, Riverside City College, Grand Canyon University, Cornish College of the Arts, Bellevue College, West Virginia University, Grand Canyon University, and at the International Dance Day Festival in Byblos, Lebanon in 2017 and 2018. Her research interests include proper warm up and fitness training for dancers as well as continuing to study the history of her favorite dance form, jazz. In October of 2011, she presented her research on stretching and the jazz dance warm up at the NDEO National Conference in Minneapolis and at the DEAW Conference in Washington state. In 2015, she again presented research at the NDEO National Conference this time in Phoenix where she discussed mirroring the testing atmosphere in a dance classroom to the process of rehearsal to performance. She received her M.F.A. in dance from the University of Washington in June of 2012 and is currently an associate professor of dance at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, CA where she directs the Cal Poly Orchesis Dance Company.
She completed three contracts for Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, two as Dance Captain and Company Manager. At age fifteen, she performed in the Rudolf Nureyev Ballet Festival in Kazan, Russia as a member of Evergreen City Ballet and was honored to dance at the Artissima Festival of Art in Turin, Italy with Chamber Dance Company in 2010. She's performed the work of Wade Madsen, Deborah Wolf, Mark Haines, Nancy Cranbourne, David Dorfman, Lar Lubovich, Kraig Patterson, Gabriel Masson, Oskar Schlemmer, Shapiro & Smith, Bebe Miller, and many other modern and jazz dance visionaries. Since 1998, Christy has been a member of Interweave Dance Theatre in Boulder, CO.
Christy has been faculty at Cornish College of the Arts, Shoreline College, Hancock College, University of Washington, and Sammamish High School where she created the dance curriculum. She has been a Guest Artist for dance programs at University of Idaho, University of Texas—Pan American, Riverside City College, Grand Canyon University, Cornish College of the Arts, Bellevue College, West Virginia University, Grand Canyon University, and at the International Dance Day Festival in Byblos, Lebanon in 2017 and 2018. Her research interests include proper warm up and fitness training for dancers as well as continuing to study the history of her favorite dance form, jazz. In October of 2011, she presented her research on stretching and the jazz dance warm up at the NDEO National Conference in Minneapolis and at the DEAW Conference in Washington state. In 2015, she again presented research at the NDEO National Conference this time in Phoenix where she discussed mirroring the testing atmosphere in a dance classroom to the process of rehearsal to performance. She received her M.F.A. in dance from the University of Washington in June of 2012 and is currently an associate professor of dance at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, CA where she directs the Cal Poly Orchesis Dance Company.