CHRISTINE LIDVALL has been a member of the dance faculty of Rice University since 1988. During this time, Lidvall has also been a teacher/choreographer for Rice Dance Theatre. Since 1997, she has been faculty advisor for the Rice Social Dance Club (formerly Rice Ballroom Dance Society). From 1983 to 1998, Lidvall served as Artistic Director of Houston's foremost modern dance company, Chrysalis Dance Company, where she continues as a member of the Artistic Team.
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Before founding Chrysalis, Lidvall worked as Associate Director and Resident Choreographer for City Ballet of Houston and as a guest dancer, choreographer and rehearsal director for the modern company, Farrell Dyde Dance Theatre. During this time, she also performed for the Houston Music Theatre, Theatre Under the Stars and the Houston Grand Opera.
A free-lance teacher and choreographer, Lidvall has taught for many dance companies and schools, including the Louisiana Dance Festival Workshop, North Carolina School of the Arts, and the National Craft of Choreography Conference sponsored by Regional Dance, Inc. Her choreography has been presented by Chrysalis Dance Company, Dancers Unlimited Repertory Company (Dallas), City Ballet of Houston, and Lake Charles Ballet Society among others. She has created commissioned works for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Jewish Community Center of Houston.
Lidvall received a BS in speech from Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, where she majored in theatre, and an MA in dance from the University of Houston, Clear Lake. As a former teaching artist for the Texas Institute for Arts in Education, she received the prestigious Apple Award in 1994, as Teaching Artist of the Year. Currently on the faculty of the Houston Ballet Academy, Lidvall is in her third year of training as a teacher of the Alexander Technique, a system of movement reeducation and stress reduction. |
