CHRISTINE STEIGERWALD

Age: 22
PHA: secretary, dancer, choreographer
Works: Held, Listing Lazily to the Left

Christine was born and raised in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She began ballet early and was a featured dancer in Duke University Dance Ensemble. She went on to study at North Carolina School of the Arts. While there she was in a reconstruction of Balanchine's original Stars and Stripes, staged by Melissa Hayden. In the following years she trained at the Rock School in Philadephia and spent summers at the Boston Ballet's summer program. She was a featured dancer in program director Devon Carney's premiere of "New World". She attended college at the University of the Arts and while there she worked with Curt Haworth, Brian Sanders, Jennifer Johnson, Ginger Cox, Christine Cox, Scott Jovovitch, Virginie Mercene and Zane Booker. She was also very happy to participate in the American Dance Festival 2006. She studied improvisation/composition with Ishmael Houston-Jones, and modern technique with Paul Matteson, Kirin Keithley and Keith Thompson. She loves pink wigs and is very excited for the Philly Fringe 2008!