Curriculum Vitae

Lindsay Nova

Dancer/Choreographer/Teacher

Columbus, Ohio, United States

1.813.760.0244

Lindsay.Nova.Hoops@gmail.com

 

Education

BFA, Ohio University ’09

Athens, OH

Honors Tutorial College Dance

Magna cum Laude

 

Blake High School of the Performing Arts ‘04

Tampa, FL

High School Degree (Dance)

 

Professional Dance Training

Intensive Programs

2003-2011

• American Dance Festival 
• White Mountain Summer Dance Festival
• Florida Dance Festival (Skinner Release Technique and aerial dance)
• Diavolo Dance Theater Winter Intensive
• Hoop Camp Retreat
• Snow Flow Festival

Travis Gatling, Marina Walchli,  Mickie Geller, Ruben Graciani, Mariah Maloney, Tresa Randall, Adriana Durant, Gladys Bailin-Stern,  Zelma Badu-Younge, Madeleine Scott, Laura Glenn, Michael Foley, Nancy Feagans-Smith, Erin Cardinal Wright, Gerri Houlihan, Pamela Pietro, Jim Lepore, Sarah Hixon, Sheryl Saterstrom, Stephanie Skura, Peter Kalivas, Garrett Wolf, Christina Acosta, Vicki Somoya, Laura Stauderman

 

Professional Work

Peformer/Company Member

Kristina Isabelle 2010-2011

Peformed fire hooping in Agora fire show directed by Kristina Isabelle

Anna Sullivan 2010-2011

Performed several shows in nontraditional settings with Anna and the Annadroids

Papadosio 2009-2011

On stage hoop performance with the band Papadosio at various venues in throughout the United States including Rootwire Festival, Wakarusa Festival, and the Newport Music Hall

Sarah Hixon 2009-2010

Performed in 60×60 Dance, Airs and Dances II, and the Ohio Dance Festival with the Hixon Dance Company

 

Selected Choreography

2010

Factory Street Studio Spring Concert, Stuart’s Opera House, Nelsonville, OH:

Eastern Beat: intermediate jazz

Journey of the Mind: advanced modern

Curl: beginning modern

Spaceship 41 is Now Ready For Boarding: intermediate ballet

2009

60×60 Project, solo, October, Wall Street Night Club

Forest/Body: A Dance Installation, group, May, Honors Tutorial College thesis project integrating site-specific dance, video, and live performance, Aesthetic Technologies Lab

And It Was Metal, solo on self, May, Spring Senior Dance Concert, performed at:

• Shirley Wimmer Theatre
• Centerville High School

Sloppy Seconds, trio, February, Donkey Coffee Shop, Athens, OH, Moving Parts Student Dance Concert, Movement Dance Organization

2008

Pitaya, group, November, Fall Senior Dance Concert

Vine, Ohio University Junior Choreography, May, Duet

Flowering Reality, solo on self, February, Donkey Coffee Shop, Athens, OH, Moving Parts Student Dance

Concert, Movement Dance Organization

2007

What, solo on self, October, Shirley Wimmer Dance Theater, Movement Lab Concert

Nature Walk, Site-specific Dance at The Ridges, group, June, The Ridges, Athens, OH

a meditation on death, solo on self,  Angels and Wings art gallery, Arts/West

 

Selected Performance

2011

Music Festivals: Wakarusa, Electric Forest, Katanabrella, Rootwire

Fire Wall, Kristina Isabelle, Junctionview Studios

Miracle Dancer, Tupaco Dance, Dublin Rec Center

2010

Agora, Anna and the Annadroids and Kristina Isabelle, May, Junctionview Studios

Airs and Dances II, Hixon Dance Company (Sarah Hixon), 2010

April, Columbus Dance Theater

2009

16 Cathedral Dances, Bread and Puppet Theater/Lubberland National Dance Company, September, Arts/West

Branched Sky, group, Marina Walchli, March, Winter Dance Concert, Templeton-Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium

Improvisation, group, Adriana Durant, Dance Improvisation Ensemble, February

2008

Jane and Wayne, duet, Adriana Durant, Movement Dance Concert, October

Site-specific dance improvisation, duet, Missy Whaley and Village Productions Dance Collective, Wisteria Cornstalk Festival, Meigs County, OH, August

The Variable Theremin, Marina Peterson, collaboration between musicians, technology, and dancers, Athens, OH

Figuring Motion, Terry Rosenberg, January, collaboration and improvisation between an artist and dancers

2007 

Angels Unawares, group, Travis Gatling, March, performed at:

• Templeton-Blackburn Memorial Auditorium,
• American College Dance Festival
• Winter Dance Concert, Elizabeth Baker Theater, Athens, OH

I, of the Storm, group, Ruben Graciani, March, Winter Dance Concert, Elizabeth Baker Theater, Athens, OH

2006

Pastoral, group, Mariah Maloney, May, Shirley Wimmer Theater

 

Selected Teaching Engagements

2011

• Music Festivals: The Blastoff (Hoop Yoga), All Good (Hooping), Rootwire(Yoga)
• Urban Active: Yoga Instructor
• Pai Yoga and Fitnesss: Pilates Instructor

2009-2010

• Magnolia Children’s School: Kids Yoga Instructor
•  Factory Street Dance Studio: Dance Instructor (Int. Ballet, Int. Jazz, Beg. And Adv. Modern, Composition, Hoop Dance)
• Inhale Yoga Studio: Yoga Instructor
• Athens Community Center: Yogalates Instructor

•  Ohio University School of Dance, Summer Course Pilates Instructor

 

Scholarships:

• Ohio University School of Dance Talent Scholarships 2005-2009
• Ruth Eckerd Hall Dance Talent Scholarship 2004
• White Mountain Summer Dance Festival 2002

 

Awards:

2009

Ohio University Creative Research Expo, Ecology and Technology: Looking at Site-Specific Dance Through Nature, the Camera, and the Human Response, site-specific video dance installation, 2^nd place in the Fine Arts division

2008

Ohio University Creative Research Expo, Environmental Dance:The Vitality of Moving With Nature, dance portfolio consisting of a film, photography, and essay set in the rain forest of Costa Rica, 2^nd place in the Fine Arts division

2007

Ohio University Creative Research Expo, The Creative and Therapeutic Application of Soundbeam and Its Related Fields, live performance, video, and presentation with Morgan Chambers, 2^nd place in the Fine Arts division

 

Grants:

2009

Ohio University Honors Tutorial College Dean’s Discretionary Funding, Ecology and Technology: Looking at Site-Specific Dance Through Nature, the Camera, and the Human Response, Honors Tutorial College Thesis integrating technology and site-specific dance

2008

Ohio University Provost’s Undergraduate Research Fund, HTC Thesis

Ohio University College of Fine Arts Award, HTC Thesis

2007

Ohio University Honors Tutorial College Dean’s Discretionary Funding, Environmental Dance: The Vitality of Moving With Nature

Ohio University Provost’s Undergraduate Research Fund

2006

Ohio University Honors Tutorial College Dean’s Discretionary Funding, study in Los Angeles with the Diavolo Dance Theater

 

Additional Skills

• First Aid and CPR Certified through Red Cross
• Certified and insured yoga and Pilates mat instructor
• Designs custom hula hoops
• Fully insured hula hoop and fire dance performer and instructor
• Photographer, uses digital SLR Nikon D80 and manual Nikon FE2
• Amateur videographer
• Software: Adobe Photoshop, Final Cut Pro, Adobe Bridge, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Audacity