Lisa is a highly accomplished dance educator, studio owner, choreographer, and director with decades of experience in both performance and production.

 

She co-owned and taught at the award-winning Dance Attack studio for 30 years alongside her mother and family. By the time she sold the studio in 2006 to focus on family, it had grown to more than 600 students and earned numerous prestigious awards. During those years, Lisa and her dancers performed in a wide range of high-profile venues and events, including cruise ships, Disneyland and Disney World, TNT’s Nashville Now, Hee Haw, Miss America Pageant festivities, Super Bowl 1995, and the New York Celebration Parade.

 

Lisa also brings an extensive choreography background. She served on the choreography team for the 2002 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremonies in the clogging section, working with renowned choreographers Kenny Ortega and Paul Winkleman. She has choreographed large-scale productions for Merrill Osmond for television shows and concerts, and has been a director for the Merrill Osmond Youth Pioneer Production for several years. She is a member of the America On Stage Hall of Fame and has represented the United States internationally as part of the Clog America Team—performing as a cultural ambassador in multiple European tours (2016–2019) and most recently at the 2021 World Dance Festival in Russia.

 

Her training and teaching span jazz, power tap, clogging, ballet, lyrical, and hip hop. In 2007, she founded Dance Force, which grew so quickly it outgrew her in-home studio and moved to the facility now known as the home of Project Dance Dancers. Lisa is passionate about both the business side of running a studio and helping young dancers build strong skills and a lifelong love of dance.