Lindsay is the founder and artistic director of RISE ARTS, serving as both a media production & marketing agency, as well as a curatorial platform for multidisciplinary arts projects in visual, media & performing arts. For media production : www.riseartscollective.com/media-production

Lindsay is a cultural & media producer, filmmaker, photographer, choreographer, and movement director. She has photographed and filmed dancers from Ailey, BOCA TUYA, Parsons, SFDanceworks, OWEN/COX Dance Group, KC Ballet, Störling, Boston Ballet School, Juilliard, Purchase, TGDC, among others. She’s captured works by Alexander Anderson, Peter Chu, Omar Román de Jesús, Hélène Simoneau, Jennifer Owen, Christian A. Warner, Merce Cunningham, Martha Graham, Edward Clug, Dani Rowe, Laura O’Malley, Babatunji Johnson, Dolly Sfeir, among others.

Her dance film As Big as the Sky, choreographed by Katerina Eng Beckman, has been shown internationally and has filmed at the de Young Museum SF, premiering in exhibition at The National Gallery in D.C., and the de Young Museum SF.

Awards & Film Festivals :

San Francisco Dance Film Festival, Bogotá Music Video Festival (Colombia), Dance Camera West (Los Angeles), Thomas Edison Film Festival (Princeton), Munich New Wave Film Festival (Germany), Wild Dogs International Screendance Festival (Canada), Seoul International Short Film Festival (Korea), Moving Images Videodance Festival (Cyprus), OPEN VISION FILM FEST (Serbia), Dance Film Festival Prague (Czech Republic), CULTUR’HALLE Film Festival (Geneva), CORPOSENSIBLE / Drupa Center (Italy), PNB Dance Film Festival (Seattle), Dalmatia Film Festival (Croatia).

She premiered her first documentary, What Came with Spring, based upon the multidisciplinary choreographic premiere by choreographer Christian Warner in Kansas City, performed by Owen/Cox Dance Group & scored and performed by The Black Creatures, diving into conversation about the Black experience and Black liberation through choreographic & musical collage.

She has partnered with the Merce Cunningham Trust to produce In Conversation with Merce in Kansas City at Charlotte Street Foundation, co-curated with Patricia Lent and staged by Dylan Cross, with support from UMKC.

Her work as an Executive Director spans SFDW in San Francisco, as well as BOCA TUYA in New York - premiering at 92NY. She aims to champion unique dance collectives with a passion for growth and expanding identity.

She has travelled internationally with fashion photographer Patrick Demarchelier for many brands & publications. She served as film production coordinator for director Stephane Sednaoui (videos REM, Bjork, U2) in New York. Highlights include : choreographing / dancing for Vogue Italia, productions with Miramax, Vogue, Vanity Fair, BCBG, ETRO, among many others — as well with figures like Bono, Sara Jessica Parker, Susan Sarandon, Steven Colbert. She has co-produced for Turner Broadcast with Reggie Watts. She produced for Sandbox Studio / Creative Drive in San Francisco and currently for GYPSY Creative.

She studied at GVSU and the Merce Cunningham Institute, ADF at Duke University, SEAD Experimental Dance in Salzburg, Austria, and all over New York with incredible icons such as Geri Houlihan, Milton Myers and Twyla Tharp. She served as managing director for SFDanceworks for its fifth season and welcomed works by Yin Yue, Dani Rowe, Laura O'Malley, Babatunji Johnson, Edward Clug & Martha Graham - staged by Miki Orihara.

She was rehearsal director & co-stager for Geoffrey Holder's The Creation, danced exclusively by Carmen de Lavallade for decades. This historic solo was set upon legendary ballerina Karen Brown, of Dance Theatre of Harlem, alongside Carmen de Lavallade, Leo Holder, Sean McLeod, & Devon McLeod of NYIDE.

As an educator, Lindsay founded RISE ARTS Academy, offering podcasting, dance, theatre, comedy, & cirque arts programming for kids with teaching artists from Cirque du Soleil, HBO, Ailey and other vibrant platforms. She has been on faculty with Interlochen Arts Academy as a contemporary dance instructor & dance film instructor. She’s served on jury panels with Charlotte Street Foundation. She is passionate about the intersection of dance & film and its ability to create intricate worlds for diverse audiences.

Katerina is a choreographer and creative facilitator whose work is grounded in collaboration and interdisciplinary exploration. She is driven by a desire to dissolve boundaries between artistic mediums, positioning movement not as ornament, but as a vital force for narrative.

Each project is approached as an opportunity to cultivate spaces that are nourishing, empowering, and deeply human.

Katerina was choreographer for the feature film Josephine, written and directed by Beth de Araújo, with cinematography by Greta Zozula and film score by Miles Ross, starring Gemma Chan, Channing Tatum, Mason Reeves, Phillip Ettinger, and Syra McCarthy.

In partnership with Rise Arts, she co-created and choreographed the short films As Big as the Sky and Veiled. She has created movement for fashion designers including Christian Siriano, Tory Burch, Lan Jaenicke, Camelia Skikos, and Victor Tung.

Katerina holds a BFA in Dance from The Juilliard School. She was a member of the American Ballet Theatre Studio Company and received her ballet training from The San Francisco Ballet School.

She is proud of her Peranakan and Australian heritage and holds dual citizenship in the United States and Australia.

portrait : @lumaxphotog

Producing Collaborations with Organizations :

OTHER ODE

The Merce Trust

OWEN/COX DANCE GROUP

SFDW

BOCA TUYA

MAKING MOVES / CHARLOTTE STREET FOUNDATION

NYIDE / NYDF at Lincoln Center

Dance Artist Collaborators :

Tristian Griffin

Tempe Ostergren

James Kirby Rogers

Alexis Borth

Erin Mesaros

Sarah McGuyer

Katerina Beckman

Jeremy Hanson

Haley Kostas

Tessa McNeil

Karen Brown

Film Collaborators :

Katerina Beckman

Jaime Garcia-Castilla

Tom Kubik

Alexis Borth

Margo Moritz

Christian A. Warner

Jeremy de’ Jon Guyton

Tayler Collier

Shaina McGregor

Emara Vonae’ Jackson

Christopher Page-Sanders

Erik Debono

Marlayna Locklear

Kyle Martin

Sam McReynolds

Jennifer Owen

The Black Creatures

Center Cut Records

Nijawwon Matthews

Omar Román de Jesús / BOCA TUYA

SFDW

MAKING MOVES / CHARLOTTE STREET FOUNDATION

Musical Collaborators :

Lune Ruse

Los Amparito

Lucy McKnight

Henry Johnston

Cameron Thomas

RISE extends gratitude to UMKC, Charlotte Street Foundation, ODC Theater and the KC / SF community of supporters!

RISE ARTS is always seeking bright, enthusiastic arts administration, film & production interns on a quarterly, semester or project basis. Please reach out to : team@riseartscollective.com for further detail!