Mary Tisa
Ballet, Basic Ballet/Tap, Jazz, Contemporary 2, Leaps and Turns, Lyrical
Mary Tisa earned a B.A. in English and Dance from The George Washington University, where she received the Presidential Arts Scholarship in Dance and the Nancy Diers Johnston Award for Outstanding Choreography. While at University, she performed with Dana Tai Soon Burgess & Co. as a performing apprentice. Since coming to Chicago, she has performed as a company member with the Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre, Corpo Dance Company, and Chicago Dance Crash, in which she was voted as the 2007 CDC’s Favorite Dancer of the Year; and as a performing apprentice with Inaside Chicago Dance. She has had the opportunity to set choreography on Inaside Chicago Dance, Core Project, Jay-son Tisa Dance Company, for which she has also served as co-artistic director and principle dance artist; and various student dance companies throughout Chicagoland. Her choreography was selected to be a participant in the THE A.W.A.R.D. SHOW! 2010: Chicago, audience selected as the 2010 winner of the Inaside Choreographic Sponsorship Evening, and chosen to be part of “Going Dutch,” a festival celebrating female contemporary choreographers.
