A jazz tendu exercise influenced by the Matt Mattox isolation technique. Working your parallel positions and adding in a shoulder isolation.
Lisa trained at The London Studio Centre, The Conservatoire de Paris (with Matt Mattox) and Martha Graham, NYC. West End credits: Velma Kelly in Chicago, 1st u/s Ulla in The Producers (original co) Sweet Charity, Crazy For You (u/s Polly) My Fair Lady (original co) Once in a Lifetime (National Theatre). NYC/ International touring and regional ; A Chorus Line, The Opera Show, The Rat Pack, 42nd st, Anything Goes, Crazy for You, Cats, Mary Poppins, Sweet Charity, Pride and Prejudice. Numerous choreography and assistant chore/dir credits including Matilda, 42nd Street, Crazy For You, Cats and Peter Pan. Lisa has been a faculty member at the Joffrey Ballet School NY/Miami/LA for 7 years, she taught a semester of Jazz dance at UCI and currently teaches at Dmitri Kulev Ballet School in Irvine. In London at Millennium Performing Arts, London Studio Center, Mountview, AMTA and Urdang Academy. Lisa is the founder, creative director and producer of her production company LDR Creative –“inspiring the bigger picture”.