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Kristy
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Nilsson
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Kristy Nilsson has performed with Atlanta Ballet and Charleston Ballet Theatre, and trained at Houston Repertoire Ballet - and under principal dancers from American Ballet Theatre, National Ballet of Canada and Martha Graham Dance Company, as well as with The Kirov Ballet of St. Petersburg, Boston Ballet, Joffrey Ballet and Nashville Ballet. Kristy graduated Cum Laude from Houston's renowned arts high school, HSPVA, and was an Honors Dance Pedagogy major at University of Oklahoma. She has choreographed over seventy pieces that have been performed by nineteen companies in eight states – including Atlanta, Houston, Oklahoma City, Pittsburgh, Alabama, Tennessee, Virginia and several cities in North Carolina. Ms. Nilsson has choreographed and set three new full length ballets, including new librettos, for Swan Lake, Nutcracker and Aladdin - for which she also designed the costumes, and selected and arranged the music. Two of these full-length works will be restaged in 2012. Kristy has choreographed five new works for the beautiful, professional dancers of The Georgia Ballet over the past seven years, most recently "Winter Widow" in 2011. Ms. Nilsson has had three original works selected for performance at the Southeastern Regional Ballet Association Festival, one of which was recognized with Regional Dance America's second highest choreographic award. In 2007, her ballet Apolysis was selected for performance at the once-a-decade National Regional Dance America Festival in Pittsburgh. In 2011, Kristy was commissioned to choreograph Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue for the Houston Repertoire Ballet. Kristy is happily married to Atlanta dance photographer Scott Nilsson (formerly a dancer) of Keiko Guest Photography. They love living and working together in Atlanta.
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Movement artist(dancer/interdisciplinary performer)
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Choreographer & Instructor - Ballet, Pointe, Contemporary, Modern, Jazz
