She was the Artistic Director for Ballet Pacifica from 1988-2003. During her tenure, Ms. Lynch established Ballet Pacifica as Orange County's leading professional dance company and one of the area's top performing arts organizations. Among her innovative trademark programs was the Pacifica Choreographic Project. Under Ms. Lynch's direction, the company worked with forty choreographers, premiered more than forty new ballets and restaged some of America's most beloved classics by George Balanchine, Antony Tudor and Choo San Goh. Ms. Lynch has also choreographed over 30 concert and story ballets, 6 children's ballets and a full-length production of The Nutcracker. Ms. Lynch has created new ballets for Sacramento Ballet, Nashville Ballet, BalletMet (Columbus, Ohio), Singapore Dance Theatre and Dance Collage (Hermosillo, Mexico).

She began her dance training with Lila Zali, received a scholarship to the Joffrey Ballet School and performed as a soloist and principal dancer with the Louisville Ballet and Ballet Pacifica for over 10 years. As a Fine Arts major at the University of California, Irvine, she studied with distinguished figures in dance such as Eugene Loring, Antony Tudor and Olga Maynard. Upon receiving her MFA in dance from UCI, she was named Outstanding Graduate Student - the first student from Fine Arts so honored. In 1992, Ms. Lynch was given the esteemed Outstanding Alumnus award from UCI and was named one of Orange County Metro Magazine's "Ten Women Who Make A Difference". She was also the recipient of the Red Cross Clara Barton Cultural Arts Award and the Boy Scouts of America Women of Excellence award in 1996. She was the recipient of the 2001 Choo San Goh Award for Choreography. In 2007 she received the Outstanding Arts Organization Award for her National Choreographers Initiative from Arts Orange County. And in April 2008 she was honored with the Irvine Barclay Theatre's prestigious Jade Award for her extraordinary leadership and creativity.

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Lisa’s concert choreography and installations have been produced at: DUMBO Dance Festival,

Inaside Dance Chicago Choreographer’s Showcase, Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Green

Show, and Daedalus Project, Alabama Dance Festival’s adjudicated New Works Concert and at

Electric Lodge and at Miles Memorial Playhouse in Los Angeles. In 2012 her choreography for

Chevrolet won fourth place in MOFILM's Las Vegas commercial competition.

Her choreography for theater includes: Two Sisters and A Piano for Oregon Shakespeare

Festival, Curtains for WKU, Compleat Female Stage Beauty and Milk Milk Lemonade for Rogue

Machine Theater in Los Angeles. Clara’s Christmas Dream debuted her choreography Off-

Broadway for StageRight Productions and was favorable reviewed by the New York Times.

Backstage described her work as “imaginative and inspired.”

She holds an MFA in choreography from CalArts, a BFA in ballet from Texas Christian

University, an AA in occupational therapy form Swedish Institute College of Health Sciences,

and is a certified GYROKINESIS instructor. She has taught at CalArts, UCLA, Butler University

and Western Kentucky University. At California State University Fullerton, Lisa teaches modern

technique, anatomy/kinesiology for dancers, choreography, and creative dance for children.

Specializing in Graham-based technique, her class highlights the principles of classical modern

in conjunction with contemporary sensibility, anatomical awareness, and fluid momentum. Lisa

works from a belief that as physical and energetic creatures we reach our ultimate potential

when these systems flow seamlessly together.