Lindsay is the founder and artistic director of RISE ARTS, curating multidisciplinary arts projects and providing community educational programs in visual, media & performing arts.

For Media Production : https://riseartscollective.com/gypsy-creative

She is a cultural & media producer, filmmaker, photographer and choreographer / movement director. She has captured dancers from Ailey, Parsons, SFDanceworks, Owen Cox Dance Group, Boston Ballet School, Julliard, TGDC, among others. Her dance film work has been shown internationally and has filmed recently at the de Young Museum SF - premiering at The National Gallery in D.C., the de Young Museum, San Francisco Dance Film Festival / SFDFF, Dance Camera West, Bogotá Musica Video Festival, among others.

She has partnered with the Merce Cunningham Trust to produce In Conversation with Merce in Kansas City and soon to be San Francisco.

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.

She has recently been rehearsal director & stager for Geoffrey Holder's 'The Creation', danced originally by Carmen de Lavallade. This historic solo was set upon legendary ballerina, Karen Brown, of Dance Theatre of Harlem.

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 is passionate about the intersection of dance & film.

portrait : Nile Raia

Katerina Eng Beckman moves through life as a freelance dancer, choreographer and creative director. She has a passion for collaboration and strives to erase the invisible boundaries that exist between art mediums. She particularly enjoys bringing together the mediums of dance, fashion and film.

Katerina takes pride in her Peranakan Chinese and Australian roots. She grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and received her initial dance training from SF Ballet School. At 17, she moved to New York City to dance with American Ballet Theater’s Studio Company. Whilst dancing there, she was accepted into The Juilliard School, where she went on to dance lead roles in works by Jerome Robbins, Twyla Tharp, Jessica Lang and Wayne McGregor. In 2018 she graduated from Juilliard with a BFA in dance. She currently dances in SF where she has performed in Candy Bomber Production’s FURY choreographed by Dani Rowe, and with SFDanceworks for three seasons.

Her choreographic work has been performed in New York City at the White Wave Soloduo Dance Festival and at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater in Juilliard’s 2018 Choreographic Honors. She has also danced and created movement for fashion designers Christian Siriano, Tory Sport and Lan Jaenicke.

This year, Katerina has stretched her wings into dance film as a co-creator & choreographer of both films ‘As Big as the Sky’ and ‘Veiled’.

portrait : @lumaxphotog

Organizations :

OTHER ODE

The Merce Trust

Collaborating Dance Artists :

Tristian Griffin

Tempe Ostergren

James Kirby Rogers

Alexis Borth

Erin Mesaros

Sarah McGuyer

Katerina Beckman

Jeremy Hanson

Haley Kostas

Tessa McNeil

Film Collaborators :

Katerina Beckman

Jaime Garcia-Castilla

Tom Kubik

Margo Moritz

Musical Collaborators :

Lune Ruse

Los Amparito

Lucy McKnight

Henry Johnston

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!