Lisie Michel – Dancer – Boston, MA

Lisie Michel is a freelance ballet dancer in Boston. After a several-year hiatus from performing, Lisie was thrilled to return to the stage upon finding a ballet company that would accommodate a shomer shabbat dancer. Her most recent performance was in the Urban Nutcracker, where she danced the leading role of Sugar Plum Fairy. Lisie attended Walnut Hill School, a high school for the arts, where she majored in ballet. She also trained in summer intensives at Washington Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, and Chautauqua Ballet. In addition to ballet, Lisie enjoys training in the circus arts disciplines of partner acrobatics, contortion, and aerial silks. Lisie has collaborated with visual artists, photographers, and musicians, and is always seeking out new interdisciplinary arts projects. Lisie earned her BS and MS in Computer Science from Vanderbilt University and currently works as a Software Engineer at Google.