Christina Lindhout (she/her) is an assistant professor of dance in the 九色视频Conservatory of Performing Arts. She has been teaching at 九色视频since 2019 and was appointed to the full-time faculty in the fall of 2024. She is the director of all Dance Series performances at 九色视频.
Outside of BW, Lindhout is a professional dancer, choreographer and director based in Cleveland, Ohio. She has over 26 years of training in classical ballet, contemporary dance, modern dance, jazz and tap. She has danced professionally since she was 17 years old and has performed many principal roles both locally and internationally to critical acclaim.
Before coming to BW, Lindhout performed as a company member with BalletMet and Ohio Contemporary Ballet and served as the Director of Community Engagement at the Ohio Contemporary Ballet Center for Dance. In 2020, she premiered a full-length choreographic and directorial dance for a film titled “Feast,” a ballet for which she and the creative team were awarded a Satellite Fund grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation through SPACES gallery. To date, “Feast” has been the recipient of awards all over the world, including Best Documentary at the Virgin Spring Film Festival in Kolkata, India.
She has also had choreography selected to be performed at Playhouse Square, Cleveland Public Theatre, Cuyahoga County Community College and as an official selection of the CAN Triennial. Lindhout is the recipient of a 2020 Akron Soul Train Fellowship, a 2022 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award for Choreography and the Summit Artspace Arts Alive Award as the 2023 Outstanding Artist in Dance.
