Lindsey Renee Derry

Lindsey Renee Derry is a graduate of Purchase College Conservatory of Dance with a BFA in Dance Performance-summa cum laude. Derry has worked with RIOULT (Pascal Rioult), Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company and TAKE Dance (Takehiro Ueyama). For five years, Derry spent several months out of the year working with José Navas/Compagnie Flak in Montreal. Presently, Derry is a Contributing Artist with Europe based KUNST-STOFF Productions (Yannis Adoniou and Tomi Paasonen) and dancer at Hope Mohr Dance in San Francisco. In 2012, Derry launched L i n s d a n s to serve as the platform for her solo work both choreographed by herself and guest artists. She is the recipient of the 2013 John D. and Susan P. Diekman Fellowship, an award that enabled her participation at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program. For the creation of her solo show POR.TRAI.TURE, Derry worked with guest choreographers José Navas, Sidra Bell, Alex Ketley and Iratxe Ansa. This fall, she joins Santa Clara University as Adjunct Lecturer in Modern Dance and guest choreographer.