The Shakespeare Theatre Company

Lisae C. Jordan

Stretch

Lisae C. Jordan is a dancer and teacher. She is on the faculty of the renowned Maryland Youth Ballet, and for ten years taught at the American Dance Institute under the direction of Michael and Pam Bjerknes. She received her early training in classical ballet with Marilyn Ramsey in upstate New York and with the School of the Hartford Ballet in Connecticut. She has worked as a principal dancer with Womenwerks (an actor/dancer collaborative) and was a member and principal dancer at Ballet North in New York. Since moving to the D.C. area, she has danced with the Washington National Opera under the direction of Placido Domingo, the Baltimore Opera, Artefacts and several others. With the Washington National Opera, she danced in, among others, Hamlet (soloist), Turandot, Samson et Dalila, Maid of Orleans, Aida and as one of the Witches in Macbeth. Her Stretch class works on passive, active-isolated, and contract-release methods, encouraging healthy alignment and range of motion, and she draws on principles found in gyrokinesis, Feldenkrais, yoga and dance.