Nancy Paradis | Flight
Nancy Paradis is artistic director of her company LA Dance Moves, a dance, music, art and media company. Combining her passion for music by collaborating with composers, she creates a new genre of performance art by weaving the composer and dancers into each other’s lives. She shares inspiring works of the human spirit in her most recent work, a feature film and documentary titled Back to the Heart. Paradis is a former dancer with Richmond Ballet, joining as an original member in its first year as a professional company and dancing for four years until leaving in 1985. She also danced professionally with Louisville Ballet and Washington Ballet. As a principal and soloist, she danced a diversity of roles ranging from classical, neo-classical, Balanchine, and modern ballets. Paradis has also performed in film & television, while also guest teaching at American Ballet Theater summer program & Orange Co. School of Performing Arts. She has created works for Grammy award-wining new-age composer Peter Kater, multi-instrumentalist David Fertello, cellist Simon Huber, vocalist Kimera Morell, and conductor Brendan McMullin.
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