LISAUNDOR. B. REID
Brooklyn NY *****
*******@*****.***
OBJECTIVES
To make an outstanding contribution with my knowledge and experiences I have garnered to contribute to the success of your organization.
To obtain a position that will enable me to build and utilize my skills, whilst portraying profession qualities and my talent to work well with co-workers.
Talented dancer with 10+ years of performance experience in front of large audiences, shares an immense passion for improvisation and performing/dancing. Enthusiastic aspiring professional with exceptional skills in limbo and folk dance performance. currently a jazz and contemporary trainee in ballet, contemporary, theater dance, jazz, street jazz, hip hop and modern dance with the Joffrey Ballet School. I am immensely driven, open minded and ready to learn and grow.
EDUCATION
Goodwood Secondary School Tobago
Graduation date: July 2013
University of Trinidad and Tobago
2017 - 2020
Joffrey Ballet School
2020 to present
RELEVANT COURSEWORK
●English
●Social Studies
●Theater Arts
●Office Administration
●Principles of Business
EXPERIENCE
Community Development and Culture July 2014 –February 2015
Field officer
●Collected data from icons in the different villages
●Was part of planning events
●Advertised Heritage at different schools.
Festivals Commissions May- November 2015
Intern
●Collected data from different Heritage shows.
●Prepared tickets for shows
●Organized food chits for VIP area
Caribbean Development Strategies January-December2016
Field Officer
●Collecting data from residents of the Tobago
The Orchids Performance Agency September 2018 - August 2021
●dance tutor/choreographer for the junior and senior class.
EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
●Dancing
●Playing pan
●Playing drum
●Theater Arts
NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS
●Took part in the Trinidad and Tobago Schools National Dance Competition June 2011
●Achieved award for most outstanding student of the July2012 graduating class in the subject of Theatre Arts and Dance
●Performing for the Tobago Heritage Festival from 2005- present
●Community Development and Culture (June 2014-2015) a group of young individuals including myself was the master minds that planned the 2014 Emancipation Celebration ‘A long walk to freedom’
●Performed in the International Soca Monarch semi-finals February 2016 with local sand upcoming stars Adana Roberts and Gerrad Balfour
●I was a part of a contingent that went to Carriacou, Grenada to take part in the Maroon Festival March 2010.
●I took part in the carnival queen show “Miss windward Afro Queen Show’’February 2014
●I took part in the annual drumming competition held around the heritage season August 2013
●I was a part of the cast that worked alongside master drummers and dancers from Africa Amadou Kienou and Amara Kante July 2015 and 2016.
●I performed in the Trinidad and Tobago Pan competition from 2013-2016 with the RBC Redemption Sound Setters and Metro stars in 2012.
●I have been a part of the frontline dancers for the Scandalous mas band from 2012-2015.
●I was a part of the cast for “How Anansi Bring the Drum’ with Eintou Pearl Springer, she is a poet, playwright, librarian and cultural activist from Trinidad and Tobago in the year of 2012.
●Core dancer/performer for the carifesta 2019 opening night ceremony with JCD & associates.
●Performed in “Shine” music video with the Freetown collective 2020
●Choreographed for soca monarch artist Viking Ding Dong for the international soca monarch competition.2020
●Core dancer for “Machel Monday;The Wedding” 2020
●Danced/videographed at “Reframed, A New Stage” and “Perspective” with the Joffrey Ballet School.2020
●Danced for US Ambassador, Nick Perry celebration ceremony.