Curriculum Vitae
LISA D. LONG
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CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION
DEGREES
5/2011 Masters of Fine Arts in Choreography, California Institute of the
Arts, Valencia, CA
5/2005 Associates in Occupational Therapy, Swedish Institute, College of Health
Sciences, 1000-hour program, New York, NY
5/1992 Bachelors of Fine Arts in Ballet minor in Art History, Magna Cum Laude, Nordan Scholar, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX
CERTIFICATIONS/POST GRADUATE EDUCATION
07/2020 Anti-Racism training, Diversity and Resiliency Institute of El Paso
06/2020 Academics for Black Survival and Wellness Initiative
12/2013 GYROKINSEISâ certification West Palm Beach, FL
7/2013 Fibromyalgia 1CEU, Cancer Massage 2 CEUs, Ethics 4 CEUs, Reflexology 6 CEUs, Sports Mssage 4 CEUs, Aromatherapy 3 CEUs, Preventing Medical Errors 2 CEUs, Hydrotherapy 2 CEUs, Blood Borne Pathogens 1 CEU, Nirvana Massage, Norfolk, VA
8/2011 License in Massage Therapy, KY
1/2008 Certification in Massage Therapy, Los Angeles, CA
2/2006 License in Massage Therapy, New York, NY 1000 hours
5/2005 National Certification of Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork
8/2009 Applied Kinesiology Principles, 7 CEUs, Health Positive-Correspondence
Wabash, IN
10/2008 Ethics, 6 CEUs, Apollo Correspondence Classes, Huntington Beach, CA
8/2008 Massage for Pregnancy, 12 CEUs, Florida State Board of Massage, FL
1/2007 Fusion: A Synthesis of Physical and Energetic Bodywork, 22 CEUs,
Swedish Institute, College of Health Sciences, New York, NY
11/2006 Exploring Energy, 3 CEUs, Swedish Institute, College of Health Sciences,
New York, NY
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2005 Riedel Dance Theater
Company member, under the direction of Jonathan Riedel, New York, NY
Performed works by: Jonathan Riedel Inferno, Four Loves
1996-2004 Dance Kaleidoscope
Principle dancer, under the direction of David Hochoy, 48 week contract each year
Performed works by:
David Hochoy Jimson Weed, Girl at the Piano, The Healing Cup, COLE!
Skinwalkers, Carmina Burana, IconoGlass, Seasons, Love Songs, Farewell, Ashland Dances, G&S.com, Watermusic, China Boy, Fascinatin’ Rhythms, Butterfly, Holiday Swing, Sound and Fury, Puccini People, Heart of Joy, America the Beautiful, Judgement of Paris, Food of Love, Concerto d’Aranjuez, Au Moulin Rouge, Planets, Canciones, Let there Be Light, Carnivale, Renaissance Noel, El Salon Mexico
Norman Walker Ring around the Rondo, The Piercing Gaze, Tristan Testament of the Dark Angel
Cynthia Pratt Red Beans and Rice, Red Thread, Rock Paper Scissors, Love Letter, Suite for the Holidays, Samurai, Ibailamos!
Ricardo Melendez Carmelita, Xs and Ys
Jason Ohlberg Zenophobe, The Fairy’s Kiss, The Needy and Nasty
1998-2003 Oregon Shakespeare Festival
May through August each year, six shows per week, performances under the umbrella of Dance Kaleidoscope.
1993-1996 Dallas Black Dance Theatre
Company member under the direction of Ann Williams and Darryl B. Sneed, 48 week contract each year, Dallas, TX
Performed works by:
Donald Byrd Rose Permutations
Talley Beatty A rag a bone and a Hank of Hair
Milton Meyers Pacing
Donald McKayle Games
Chuck Davis Homage to the Source: Africa
Kevin Iega Jeff Walls
Gene Hill Sagan Etudes and Elegy
John Mead Soiree
Derrick Whitters Backbones in Motion
Lily Cabatu Weiss Flights of Fancy
Holly Williams Black Magic
Darrryl B. Sneed And Now Marvin, Ascend, Tides, Inserted Passages
Cleo Parker Robinson Spiritual Suite~ Mary Don’t you Weep, Perfect Praise
Andre George Two Solos
Geroge Faison Mad Pain
CHOREOGRAPHY and PRESENTATIONS
01/12/2019 California Dance Educators Association, Presentation: Theory and Critique, Creating Educated and Articulate Dance Artists, Fullerton, CA
10/26/2018 2ndAnnual Facilitator of Anna Halprin’s Planetary Dance, Fullerton,CA
10/2018 DUMBO Dance Festival, Xs and Ys, Duet Co-choreographed with Ricardo Melendez, CSUF student dancers, Stormy Gaylord and Edward Salas, Gelsey Kirkland Performing Arts Theater, Brooklyn, NY
9/2018 Wayward Artists: FaithConcert, Co-choreographer with CSUF Alumni Omar Guillen, CSUF student dancer, Ashley Diamond, Grand Central Arts Center, Santa Ana, CA
8/2018 Chartres Cathedral, Inaugural performance of The Labyrinth Project, Into the Rose, Co-choreographer with Alumni Omar Guillen, Dancer, Rebecca Levy, Courtesy of Jacksonville Dance Theater, Composer, Max Salazar, Chartres, France
8/2018 Labyrinth at Grail Haven Into the Rose, Co-choreographer with CSUF Alumni Omar Guillen, Dancer, Rebecca Levy, Courtesy of Jacksonville Dance Theater, Composer, Max Salazar, Escales, France
06/2018 Jacksonville Dance Theater Commission, Into the Rose, Jacksonville, FL
10/29/17 Segerstrom Center for the Arts, Sanctus: Bernstein’s Mass, Chorography for Pacific Chorale, Orange County, CA
8/4/2017 Article Publication: “Enhancing Performance: Self-Care for All Artists,” The Artifice
6/25/2017 Solo Duo Festival Presented Into the Rose, solo choreographed and performed by myself Dixon Place Theater, New York, NY
2/4/2017 SoCal Dance Invitational, Xs and Ys,CSUF dancers, Stormy Gaylord and Kevin Lopez, Golden West College, Huntington Beach, CA
10/6-9/2016 National Dance Educators Organization 10/8/2016 Poster Presentation: Designing A Service Learning Experience for DANC 478: Creative Dance for Children, Washington, DC
8/26-27/2016 Highways Performance Space, 8/26-27/2016…Y Tu Tango? Evening-length work curator, director and choreographer, Produced by Highways Performance Space Artistic Directors Leo Garcia and Patrick Kennelly, Santa Monica, CA
4/2017 Liminal Breath, Multi-media work seven dancers on film, five dancers on stage, CSUF, Fullerton, CA
2/2017 Xs and Ys: duet, SoCal Dance Invitational, Orange County, CA
08/2016 Curator/Director/Choreographer: L2 Dance Theater …Y Tu Tango? Evening-length concert produced by Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, CA
06/2016 Restaging of XS for six dancers,
06/2016 Tango Sorbet, Six solos choreographed in collaboration with dancers, L2 Dance theater’s Y Tu Tango? Show, Highways Performance, Space, Santa Monica, CA
06/2016 Once Upon a Tango, Septet for L2 Dance Theater’s Y Tu Tango? Show, Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, CA
10/2015 Residual Unseen Site-specific dance installation, Solo for dancer and movement design for singers, Kentucky Museum, Bowling Green KY
9/2014 3-2-Tango Trio for L2Dance Theater, Music Gotan Project, Video collaborator, Dr Ed Kintzel performed at DUMBO Dance Festival, Gala Concert opening act, Brooklyn, NY
11/2013 NutCrackers, quintet, WKU Dance Company, Holiday Extravaganza, Music: Brian Setzer Orchestra, Bowling Green, KY
8/22/2013 Be Fly, Solo performed at MixMatch Dance Festival, Santa Monica, CA
8/9-11/2013 REVEAL! Evening length work, quintet, Composer Sue Carney, film maker Natalie Metzger, set designer Joe Porto and Costume designer Silvanne Park, Oregon Shakespeare Festival Green Show, Ashland, OR
8/10/2013 TRANSCEND! Dance installation for five dancers, Composer Sue Carney, Oregon Shakespeare Festival Green Show, Ashland, OR
01/2014
4/2013 Skirting the Line Between Want and Need, Solo set on both male and female dancers, Music: Bo Vaughn, bowling Green, KY
Presented also at:
Alabama Dance Festival, Birmingham, AL,
Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, CA
Synergy Festival, Brea CA
11/17/12 Get Your Cruz On, Chevrolet Cruz commercial choreographed on eleven professional dancers, Sublimemedia Group/MoFilm competition, Bowling Green, KY
11/2012 Visions of Sugared Rum Work contemporary piece for seven dancers, WKU
4/2012 XS, Ten dancers, WKU Dance Company, Music: Gotan Project, Bowling Green, KY
3/2012 Zavicaj/Homeland, Site-specific, dance installation for ten dancers, Composer: Michael Kallstrom, Center for Research and Development, Bowling Green, KY
12/2011 Rockwell Redux, Quintet for WKU Dance Company,
Music: Skating by Vince Gueraldi Trio, Bowling Green, KY
12/2011 Holiday for One Solo, for WKU Dance Company, Music: Please Come Home for Christmas by Willie Nelson, Bowling Green, KY
11/2011 Amahl duet for WKU Opera, Bowling Green, KY
8/2011 3-2-1, Sight-specific sextet, choreographed on WKU Dance Company, Composer: Ellen Reid, Bowling Green, KY
5/2011 Moth Opera choreographed in collaboration with sixteen singer/dancers,
Composer: Ellen Reid, Director: Julianne Just, New Works Festival, Mark
Taper Courtyard, Valencia, CA
5/2011 Ukiyo-E Female solo, scored improvisation with harpist, Jillian Risigari-Gai,
Mid-Residence Recital, Music: Ukiyo-E by George Rochberg, Roy O. Disney Hall, Valencia, CA
4/2011 Be Fly female solo choreographed as a part of Totem, Brockus Project Studio benefit concert, Los Angeles, CA
3/2011 Totem Masters thesis concert
Full evening length concert including a 20 minute, Butoh-inspired installation Choreographed on seven BFA students, California Institute of the Arts, Sharon Disney Lund Theater, Valencia, CA
7/2010 Milk, Milk Lemonade, Musical dances for actors, Rogue Machine Theater
Company, Director: Matthew S. Elkins, Theatre Theater, Los Angeles, CA
5/2010 Un Peu Tache’ Modern solo choreographed on BFA student, California Institute of the Arts, Music: Sylvain Chauveau, Last Dance Concert, Sharon Disney Lund Theater Valencia CA
Presented also at:
DanceSpot, Studio A, Silverlake, CA 5/2010
Tri-art Festival, San Pedro, CA 9/2010
MixMatch Festival, Electric Lodge, Venice, CA 9/2010
2/2010 Breath-Held, Modern sextet choreographed on BFA students, Composer: Ellen Reid, California Institute of the Arts, MFA I concert, Sharon Disney Lund Theater, Valencia CA Restaged WKU dance company Bowling Green, KY
11/2013
9/2009 Eskimo Pie Modern duet, choreographed on BFA students, Music: Jacek Pelk California Institute of the Arts, Open House Concert, Sharon Disney Lund Theater, Valencia, CA, Bowling Green, KY
9/2009 The Tempest, Created a movement vocabulary for the acting company, Director: Jeff Soroka, Theater Unleashed Company, Studio/Stage, Los Angeles, CA
5/2009 It’s Always Darkest, Modern piece choreographed for eleven students, Music:
Oliwa and the Pleasure Circus and Victoire, Los Angeles County High School or the Arts, Alex Theater, Glendale, CA
4/2008 Compleat Female Stage Beauty, Burlesque dances for two actors, Director:
John Flynn, Rogue Machine Company, Theatre Theater, Los Angeles, CA
3/2008 The Dance of McDictator, Musical theater tango for five dancers, No Tea Productions, UNDER St. Marks Theater, New York, NY
4/2005 Good Times, Musical burlesque piece for five dancers, Music: Good Times by Sonny and Cher, Producer/Director: Barry Doss Design as a part of a fashion show, Ruby Falls, New York, NY
4/2005 Band of Gold, Modern trio for hula-hoop troupe and sock puppet, Music: Freda Payne, Producer/Director: Barry Doss Design as a part of a fashion show, Ruby Falls, New York, NY
11-12/2004 Clara’s Christmas Dream, Five musical dances for twelve actor/dance
Composer: Tim Starnes, Director: Bruce Merrill, Stage Right Productions
Theater at St Clements, New York, NY
8/2003 Just As I Am, Video-style musical set on eight women ranging in experience
from pedestrian to professional, Music: Buddha Bar, Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Daedalus Project, Elizabethan Theater, Ashland, OR
7/2001 Two Sisters and a Piano, A tango for two actors, Director Andrea Frye,
Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Black Swan Theater, Ashland, OR
8/2000 Idiots Guide to Enhancing Self-Esteem, Modern quintet set on members of Dance Kaleidoscope, Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Daedalus Project, Elizabethan Theater, Ashland, OR
6/1996 Just Chillin’ Four music videos set on members of Dallas Black Dance Theater for a television pilot, Dallas, TX
DANCE FILMS
2017 Liminal Breath, In collaboration with filmmaker Joe Adams Los Angeles, CA
2015 Residual Unseen, Dancer: Jade Primicias, Composer: Matthew Setzer, Bowling Green, KY
12/2010 The Blue Room, Burbank, CA
4/2010 How to Catch a Man, Valencia CA
1/2010 Two Thousand Miles, No Distance, Valencia CA/ Indianapolis, IN
Presented at:
MixMatch Festival, Miles Memorial Playhouse, Los Angeles CA 9/2011
TEACHING
2015-present California State University Fullerton, Associate Professor
Modern Levels 1-3, Composition A, Anatomy and Kinesiology for Dancers, Creative Dance for Children
2011-2015 Western Kentucky Univeristy Assistant Professor, Modern levels 1-3,
Improvisation, Jazz, Ballet levels 1-2, Dance History, Dance Anatomy
4/2016 Dance Kaleidoscope, Company Class, Indianapolis, IN
4/2016 Joel Hall Center, Master Class, Self-Care for Dancers, Chicago, IL
12/2015 Orange County High School for the Arts, Master Class, Graham-based
Modern, Orange County, CA
10/2015 Wooden Floor, Master Class, Graham-based Modern, Santa Ana, CA
9/2015 Westside Ballet, Graham-based Modern, Santa Monica, CA
2014/2015 New Dialect Dance Company, Contemporary Technique, GYROKINSEISâ
Nashville, TN
2009-2011 California Institute of the Arts, lecturer
Anatomy and Kinesiology for Dancers, and substitute of record modern technique Valencia, CA
2007-2009 Los Angeles County High School for the Arts,modern technique levels 1-4,
Los Angeles, CA
7-1/2010 Brockus Project Studio
Summer and Winter Two-week intensives, Intermediate level, Graham-based modern and Composition/Improvisation, Los Angeles, CA
6/2009 Debbie Reynolds Dance Studio
Six-week multi-level modern intensive, Los Angeles, CA
2008 University of California Los Angeles
Jazz and Ballet for non majors Los Angeles, CA
1/2008 Diavolo DanceLab
Six-week, mulit-level, Graham-based intensive, Los Angeles, CA
2007-2009 Valkyrie Theater of Dance, Drama and Film
Instructor, ballet, modern, improvisation, youth ages 6-16, Los Angeles, CA
2000-2004 Academy of Ballet International
Instructor, modern, advanced level students, Indianapolis, IN
