She also founded and directs The Heartbeat Academy Program that is designed for students who are interested in a serious and focused study of the performing arts. She teaches weekly classes in modern, ballet, jazz, acting and composition. Kristin is the Artistic Director of Heartbeat Performing Arts Center in Apple Valley. They have played to over 15,000 audience members. She has presented over 400 artists in such locations as First Avenue, Bryant Lake Bowl, Theatre De La Jeune Lune, Weisman Art Museum, Loring Bar and the Loring Play House. In its five-year history, there have been 25 Ricochet Kitchen events. The choreography has been as diverse as flamenco, middle-eastern, break dance, tap and percussive, hip hop and jazz. She produced 18 events in the Twin Cities to bring multiple choreographers together to present their works. She also founded the groundbreaking Ricochet Kitchen: Omni Art Events, a multi-art, multi-room cabaret that showcased local and national artists of diverse dance traditions and other art mediums such as music, fashion, spoken word, studio arts and film. Hers is the only dance company to stage a production on the altar of the Basilica of St. She has performed these works internationally in Cairo, London, Tokyo, and Barcelona and locally in such venues as Walker Art Center, Weisman Art Center, Theatre De La Jeune Lune, O’Shaunghnessy Auditorium, Guthrie Theatre Fitzgerald Theatre, Loring Playhouse, Pantages Theatre and many more. She has produced over 100 dance productions and over 60 multi-medium dance installations that were inspired by female archetypes drawn from ethnically diverse mythological and historical sources. She merges contemporary dance, fire dancing, video, spoken word, opera and original music in a Cirque du Soleil quality to create epic theatrical productions. She founded, choreographed, and directed the critically acclaimed Vox Medusa Dance Company. Kristin’s accomplishments have been diverse and monumental.
Her teaching philosophy is to create arts programs that provide students with real-life experiences to teach them skills necessary to building a successful career in dance and theater, help them explore their talent and give them creative opportunities to stretch and to grow.
MINNEAPOLIS PROJECT HEARTBEAT PROFESSIONAL
Kristin is committed to her profession and her professional outreach to the greater community.
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